1)military industrial complex jobs employ hundreds of millions of Americans, so it’s not like we don’t get something for our money.
This is what you, still, do not understand. All of the money spent on manufacturing weapons for other nations could be spent improving life for Americans here.
You would only have a point if these nations were paying for these weapons. Which they are not.
This is literally taxpayer money being funneled to defense contractors so they can give weapons away to nations like Israel. They have enough wealth to buy our weapons. We shouldn’t be giving them away for free while the Americans who paid for them go without higher education or health care.
There is not the political will to improve the lives of Americans. Half the country wants to eliminate Social Security, Medicare, Obamacare, public education, welfare, and basically all “entitlements”.
In 2022, the US has given $3.8 billion in military aid to Israel. What the US spends just on maintenance of its nuclear arsenal could fund Israel at that level for 20 years. Just one F-35 fighter costs about $30 billion.
All this is not touching on the reasons we give aid to other countries. In many cases the aid protects our economic interests and saves us money in the long run. Take Ukraine for example. The war is weakening one of our major military competitors, which means they are less of a threat to us and we do not need to maintain as many defenses against them.
This is what you, still, do not understand. All of the money spent on manufacturing weapons for other nations could be spent improving life for Americans here.
You would only have a point if these nations were paying for these weapons. Which they are not.
This is literally taxpayer money being funneled to defense contractors so they can give weapons away to nations like Israel. They have enough wealth to buy our weapons. We shouldn’t be giving them away for free while the Americans who paid for them go without higher education or health care.
There is not the political will to improve the lives of Americans. Half the country wants to eliminate Social Security, Medicare, Obamacare, public education, welfare, and basically all “entitlements”.
In 2022, the US has given $3.8 billion in military aid to Israel. What the US spends just on maintenance of its nuclear arsenal could fund Israel at that level for 20 years. Just one F-35 fighter costs about $30 billion.
All this is not touching on the reasons we give aid to other countries. In many cases the aid protects our economic interests and saves us money in the long run. Take Ukraine for example. The war is weakening one of our major military competitors, which means they are less of a threat to us and we do not need to maintain as many defenses against them.