Is increasing the military budget to have the best military, boost the economy,
Increasing military spending can generate more jobs for companies that have government contracts to provide planes, ships, missile technology and so forth. Such spending helped Ronald Reagan turn the economy around.
On the other hand spending to rebuild the nation's infrastructure, bridges, roads, highways, and airports would also generate a lot of jobs too.
According some reports more than 63,000 bridges crossed 250 Million times a day need significant repairs.
They are ticking time bombs!
Ironically, president Dwight D Eisenhower built the National Highway System as a military purpose to get troops and equipment across the country rapidly.
Today, the irony is that we haven't even kept up with the maintenance of these roads, as the population has almost quadrupled since then and a corresponding increase in vehicles.
The electric grid should also be called a military target to be protected, but it is dying on the line.
We have been in one war or another since WWII. And the same politicians that argue against increasing the military budget are the ones that keep getting us into more wars. Wars by the way that they have lost, all of them.
The military can win battles, but not wars. The reason is that the politicians seem to always grab defeat out of the jaws of military victories. Or like in Vietnam never get to military victories.
Had the politicians won the Korean War, we would have Jungivitis today.
The military budget has a limited increase in our economy. It goes to the GDP and it makes it look better than it is, but what about the private sector. Say bye bye to JC Penney while we launch another fighter plane, or sub, or ?
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