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The Pentagon doesn’t need $886bn. I oppose this bloated defense budget | Bernie Sanders
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"If you want peace, prepare for war. Si vis pacem, para bellum." - Vegetius
Big bureaucracies do tend to have waste, but spending less reduces both useful spending and wasteful spending equally. Cutting a budget does not achieve virtue. US military spending keeps the world at peace
Do you have any sources to back up your claim that useful and wasteful spending decreases equally?
If that is the case, it sounds like the issue is with management which can also be replaced.
The military is unbelievably wasteful and I have a very hard time buying your argument. You're framing makes it sound like he's proposing getting rid of the budget all together.
Also, I didn't realize the world was at peace...
Compared to what's in the history books, yeah, it is. This is by far the most peaceful time humanity has ever known.
I wasn't making a relativistic statement. The world is not at peace.
I also would like a source or 2 supporting "equally" wasteful, although that's a good point that both types of spending are likely to be reduced.