"The simple fact is: Whether you're running for the White House or a city council seat, if you stand with working people, they will stand with you," said Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Overall pretty promising results, but the one that baffles me is the majority opposition to cutting military spending. Maybe I’m in a bubble but who the fuck looks at current spending levels and thinks that’s a good thing, especially now that we aren’t even at war. I guess the new cold war is ramping up with China but last I checked were still spending orders of magnitude more then them.
I always thought support for military spending was shallow and manufactured by the military industrial complex, but these polls seem to show a lot of people actually strongly support military spending. Looks like age is the biggest contributing factor, with under 45 supporting cuts while over 45 strongly opposing cuts. Maybe it’s a cold war thing, of nostalgia and pride for the Reagan / top gun era american empire.
Perhaps it’s manufactured well. I wonder how large of an employer is it. I can find data that shows it’s in the millions of jobs but I don’t know how many.
I think the Ukraine situation does more to increase the favorability of military spending than anything with China.
But mostly I think America being late to intervene in WWII still hangs over the American public’s heads (to me it would seem this is the point when anti-interventionism stopped being the norm.)
The problem is that we don’t really need to add money to make the country more secure. What we need to do is change the way the supplies are handled and it’s save billions. When I was in, (02-08) I was talking to the SSG of the cooks and he complained that a microwave cost the unit $1,100. If instead he was able to just use cash from an account, he could have gotten the same one for $300. But instead he had to use the system in place. Everything cost WAY more than it should. This doesn’t include mass supplies like clothing, guns and ammo, but regular items. If we could change that, we would be able to cut a little bit of funding and still save billions for development of new tech.
Overall pretty promising results, but the one that baffles me is the majority opposition to cutting military spending. Maybe I’m in a bubble but who the fuck looks at current spending levels and thinks that’s a good thing, especially now that we aren’t even at war. I guess the new cold war is ramping up with China but last I checked were still spending orders of magnitude more then them.
I always thought support for military spending was shallow and manufactured by the military industrial complex, but these polls seem to show a lot of people actually strongly support military spending. Looks like age is the biggest contributing factor, with under 45 supporting cuts while over 45 strongly opposing cuts. Maybe it’s a cold war thing, of nostalgia and pride for the Reagan / top gun era american empire.
Perhaps it’s manufactured well. I wonder how large of an employer is it. I can find data that shows it’s in the millions of jobs but I don’t know how many.
I think the Ukraine situation does more to increase the favorability of military spending than anything with China.
But mostly I think America being late to intervene in WWII still hangs over the American public’s heads (to me it would seem this is the point when anti-interventionism stopped being the norm.)
The problem is that we don’t really need to add money to make the country more secure. What we need to do is change the way the supplies are handled and it’s save billions. When I was in, (02-08) I was talking to the SSG of the cooks and he complained that a microwave cost the unit $1,100. If instead he was able to just use cash from an account, he could have gotten the same one for $300. But instead he had to use the system in place. Everything cost WAY more than it should. This doesn’t include mass supplies like clothing, guns and ammo, but regular items. If we could change that, we would be able to cut a little bit of funding and still save billions for development of new tech.
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