blog stage 8

This is a criticism of “military spending” by US government.  My first point of criticism is that our military did not spend 600 billion dollars last year it spent 598.5 according to a national priorities article (https://www.nationalpriorities.org/campaigns/military-spending-united-states/).  The points that this person forgets to take into the there report in is that we have been acting like the police man of the world for the last possible 20 plus years.  There also is something else that virtually no military has which is a large amount of foreign bases. Which means that we have bases around the globe in different countries.  No other country has this many foreign bases, the closet country is probably Russia or china, they both have bases outside their respective countries boarders , but very few china to my knowledge has some in the south china sea, Djibouti, and Russia has about 10 all over the world. According to Ron  Paul, we have over 900 active military bases in total.  That a lot of solders to feed, arm, clothe and pay around the world.  This is compared to Russia or china which has no even close to half the number of bases around the world.   This person also bring up the 9/11 ( may those victims rest in peace) tragedy, that did cause a massive spike in military spending, not only in defense of our country against terrorism but in the building of a lot more military supplies like tanks, guns …....  There is something that this person didn’t talk about which was that we had to retro fit our intelligence agencies from using cold war tactics and technology, basically, we went from counting communist tanks and nukes, to trying to find one terrorist in the whole county of Afghanistan for example. That retrofit is still taking place today even, that is also part of why are military spending is so high compared to the rest of the world. the overlying reason that our military budget is so high is that we have a lot of bases, our equipment, and our spying agencies cost a hell of a lot of money to operate , because are stuff is so advanced and expensive that it is hard to keep  the costs down. This person had also mentioned the point of that the military spending is going down, they also point out that this could have been happening much sooner , well it could not have because of the wars we keep fighting and the investment we keeping making in weapon systems that have massive issues.  We are also coming out of some massive wars  that is why it has been reduced, but not by much comparatively.   Link to class mates blog that I criticized: https://dsusgovt.blogspot.com/