Up 3.2% from 2003, the 2004 Department of Defense budget is equal to the military spending of the next 9 most militarily powerful countries in the world.

What do you think abo0t that? I'd say, take over Canadialand, but then I that would take away where I wanna run away to.

$400 Billion is not enough

How much is enough?

That's not the post that was here earlier!

What are you talking about?

yeah i originally had so we could attack more innocent countries until proven guilty


id be ecstatic if the $400 Billion was increased to $500-$600 Billion...

Unlike most countries the US spends a lot of its money on military IN the country... i think we use one foreign built plane.. i believe the harrier is UK built.... All the money we spend on the military is basically put back into our economy...more people working for the military, more people have jobs, better signing bonuses equal more recruits... private companies build weapons which means more weapons means more civilians building weapons... offering our military protection is good foreign policy too, do you know of any nation that would turn down US military support? Not to mention the technology that would develop from another weapons race...

so basically what im getting at is that most of the money the US spends on military they are putting people to work... and everyone can agree that jobs are good

Well, it's not like we buy Space Shuttle parts from other countries. We could spend $100 billion on NASA and it would blow back into our economy. Specifically, thanks to LBJ, into the Texas economy. Of course, that's true for military spending too. LBJ hooked up Texas.

If we spend more on healthcare, that goes to the medical workers. I'd rather see people making intruments to save people than to kill people. I'd rather see cures for diseases than new "low-yield nuclear devices"--that's an oxymoron, 1-3 kilotons of TNT is not low-yield--whose usage will kill hundreds of thousands of people. Increased educational spending goes back into our economy and protects our future just as much.


The military is far from the only place the government could spend money domestically to feed back into the economy so that point is moot.

Being raised in San Antonio I know firsthand the benefits of the miltary because almost a quarter of my family was employed at various positions. Now with the airbase breakdown they've been
reassigned and all, but still, it really helped out a lot of my family who's service in the military is entirely civil.

Technically speaking, money spent on the space programs is far more benificial to the economy than military spending. Military spending has dollar for dollar effect on the economy. All it does is keep money flowing through the system from an economic standpoint. On the other hand, the NASA space programs do the same thing with a cascading effect, creating PRIVATE sector jobs at a rate 3 times greater than military dollars do as well as being a positive focus for the world.
One of the largest economic booms this country (or the world for that matter) has ever seen was the 10 years Kennedy gave us to get to the moon. Sure there wasn't shit there, but the moment the US flag was planted on the surface of the moon was the pinnacle moment of human history as of today. This signifies the insatiable curiosity and appetite for exploration that defines the human race. Not only that, but there has never been such a novel point in human history. A song by Kansas at the time appitomized the concept in one of their songs with the lerics, "The horn of good and plenty is bursting at the seams".

Same can be said for taxes and governement jobs. Only one doesn't kill as many people.

I'd rather see a good portion of that money spent on Education, but we got people to bomb, and places to invade.

For'reals, let's goto Mars already!

Hell yeah


With todays technology we could fake a mars landing 100 times bettter than we did the moon landing!!!!!!