The US would like to see budget cuts in the military

[Marc v4.0]

Originally Posted by Jagos

Case in point the F-35 is over budget, over technical, and downright a waste of time and resources.

If you put $1 trillion dollars to education instead of warfare, how many people would you help? How many schools? How many teachers would have new resources to do their jobs?

So you're saying you want the terrorists to win?

Liberal hippy.

[Japan]

You know with all that we know about statistical analysis and probability, and with all the out of work college graduates laying about you'd think someone could come up with an absolute number that would constitute the bare minimum for national security.

Like, if you spend at least this much then the Chinese won't invade, anything less and you'd better start learning Mandarin.

[Kim]

I don't think China would invade the US regardless. I could totally be wrong, but I don't think they're really equipped for a war of conquest to the degree of taking over America. I know they've got hella citizens, but it seems like the sort of thing that would stretch the administration too thin and fall apart rather quickly.

[Sifright]

Originally Posted by Liz

I don't think China would invade the US regardless. I could totally be wrong, but I don't think they're really equipped for a war of conquest to the degree of taking over America. I know they've got hella citizens, but it seems like the sort of thing that would stretch the administration too thin and fall apart rather quickly.

man why would they bother, This financial collapse business has been great for china they snapping up ownership deeds for all kinds of rare earth material mines *and non rare* They won't invade places like America because it would be economic suicide.

For instance China now owns something like 90% of all the active uranium mines.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Originally Posted by Japan

You know with all that we know about statistical analysis and probability, and with all the out of work college graduates laying about you'd think someone could come up with an absolute number that would constitute the bare minimum for national security.

Like, if you spend at least this much then the Chinese won't invade, anything less and you'd better start learning Mandarin.

I reckon $0 is a pretty good start.
Like I talked to the Chinaman under my bed and he says they're pretty good at the moment and don't really have any financial incentive to invade you dudes. His tongue was forked though so take that as you will.

[Overcast]

I hear that is a fairly popular body modification in China, nothing to worry about.

As an image from the inside the military is downsizing in the personnel department which is dual sided in that it reduces the amount they have to pay now, but due to the individuals they are cutting increases the amount of retirees they will have on record for a while. But while that is variable in how it is affecting military spending they are still researching and buying new expensive technology of varying degrees of reliability, still being screwed over by every asshole who has the good luck of winning a military purchase contract, and still having trouble balancing how old something has to be before it is more costly to repair it than it is to buy a newer better one.

Combine this with a bureaucratic system that is both rigid and inflexible but simultaneously schizophrenic with the amount of leadership that makes budget decisions for each individual place and other than outright cutting funds few things can be implemented in the military to fix our running issues with drastic spending that won't take years to be fully operational. And even then it won't be very functional I imagine.

All in all even in the military I imagine we could use a budget cut, but good luck hoping that money ends up going to something that is worth a damn considering modern politics.