The Cost Of Cutting America's Defense Budget

[Jazzy]

Here's the factory floor of the American defense industry, where a twisted web of manufacturing strategies is keeping middle America afloat, politicians in office and a steady supply of weapons flowing to some questionable regimes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UuZGX46X4Tg

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Your thoughts?

 

[Evil Eye]

Seems to me that a government keeping an industry going it doesn't currently need for the sake of preserving jobs isn't a very free-market-thing to do.

 

[DrLeftover]

That is the only reason to invest in the military, there is no other possible reason. Right?

Of course, right.

Anything America does is wrong and stupid and only to keep various fatcats in caviar and Chablis.

Right?

BEIJING, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- China's first aircraft carrier was delivered and commissioned to the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy Tuesday, according to report by National Defense Ministry's official website.

Overseen by top Chinese leaders, the carrier, with a name of "Liaoning" and hull number 16, was officially handed over at a ceremony held in a naval base of northeast China's Dalian Port

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/photo/2012-09/25/c_131872645.htm

March 28, 2014
BEIJING — China's participation in the international search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is giving its military a rare opportunity to operate in areas far from home and shape views about its military might.

It's not every day that Chinese planes touch down in Australia and Chinese naval vessels cruise past Christmas Island. In fact it is rare.

China has deployed some 13 ships to aid the hunt for the missing plane, its biggest ever such deployment so far from home. Security analyst James Nolt told VOA via Skype that the deployment is significant.

"This is important because China is participating in a multinational effort to locate the remains or the debris from the plane, China hasn't operated much in the Indian Ocean before, but it also doesn't have bases in the region so it has to operate from other countries such as Australia," he said.

China's expanding military might is a persistent concern in the region, as is the perception that through its territorial disputes, Beijing is angling to challenge the United States and Japan.

http://www.voanews.com/content/chinas-naval-power-on-display-in-search-for-missing-plane/1881166.html

 

[Evil Eye]

That is the only reason to invest in the military, there is no other possible reason. Right?

Now who said that?

 

[DrLeftover]

That is the only reason to invest in the military, there is no other possible reason. Right?

Now who said that?

them:

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