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Related: About this forumTop 15 countries with largest share of military spending in the world. Evolution from 1914 to 2018.
yonder
(9,674 posts)Dynamic, it's almost like watching a movie. There is an interesting post-WW2 spike in Polish military spending. I don't know what that's about.
cp
(6,655 posts)And what a waste of resources.
Surprises (to me): China not prevalent until very late, Russia spending so much for so many years, Saudi Arabia up and coming. Not proud of United States being #1 so much. Again, such a waste of resources.
Clash City Rocker
(3,398 posts)alwaysinasnit
(5,072 posts)to the other nations.
kag
(4,079 posts)it, unfortunately, doesn't show how much of that is waste. Our military spills more money every year than our country spends on all of our social programs combined.
It also doesn't show how much of that is paid to make military contractors obscenely wealthy, and who then turn around and use a bunch of that obscene wealth to bribe...er...I mean lobby politicians to keep the system running "normally".
Don't get me wrong. I think it's a great graph, and the animation is fabulous. I wonder if they could do another one to compare how much each Representative and Senator is paid in bribes...er...I mean donations to keep the military from being audited.
TomVilmer
(1,832 posts)In combined spending from state, federal and local sources, social programs gets around five times more than the military.
https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/
A lot of that military spending is happily lost on the way to the war. Many arms programs are willfully wasted on never ending projects with the only purpose of creating jobs - as welfare programs to swing states, to pay for votes and local political support.
You're trying to "correct" me by pointing to a website that looks like some right-winger pulled some numbers out of his ass, and then spent a whole five minutes trying to make a site that looks "official" (but couldn't be bothered to NOT make it a .com ).
Anyone who believes that my country spends more on "social programs" (which you clearly define differently than I do) than on the military is smoking something interesting.
Also, if you truly believe that "arms" manufacturers are only in it for the great jobs they create, well, I think you're on the wrong website. You make it sound like military contractors themselves are some kind of social program.
I'm going to just assume you're a troll or a Russian bot or something.
Bye.
TomVilmer
(1,832 posts)... nothing about your person. I just likes facts. And hates war. So I would be in my interest to make military expenses look very high and terrible. But facts beats opinions, even my own. You should try that someday.
In my link spending data is from official government sources. Federal spending data comes from the presidents budget. All other spending data comes from the US Census Bureau. If you do you have any clue where your own "facts" come from, then please share them with me - links and all.