 neowulf
join:2000-10-20
Port Orange, FL | reply to P Ness
Re: How much to wire the entire population I think Karl's point is valid. We spend trillions on bases, some of which are no longer needed but we still spend money on them that serves no interest to real defense, just a money sink.
You are right that we should put money into education, homeless, health-care, cures for diseases and make sure starving people in our country are feed before putting in a fiber network.
The investment in our military is also not generating any returns. But the amount of money that is wasted could do everything you mentioned plus bonuses such as a fiber network for all.
We would all be living a much better life if our military was scaled back to just defense, and not used to police the world. But that isn't the American way, we believe in a big military rather then all the things you mentioned. |
| Saying "The investment in our military is also not generating any returns." is short sighted.
Through the military budget, thousands (maybe millions) of people are being employed. Whether it is directly as armed soldiers and the like, working at defence contractors, or in R&D centers. Additionally, a secondary level of employment exists in the form of additional revenue being brought into companies that supply electronic parts an testing equipment, manufacturing machines (CNC's, milling machines, lathes, etc.), and all sort so other supplies. Looking all this, saying that it is not generating any returns is a little short sighted as the returns can be found in the economy, to start with. |
