Ron Paul wants to build more bases in the U.S.

[joshcryer]

18. That would be direct competition to contractors, which Ron Paul would be against.

The money would go into MIC R&D, tech development, and training. Here in Colorado grassroots supports elected a Democrat who promised to end the Pinion Canyon military expansion (they wanted several thousand square miles of more land to do training exercises). Under Ron Paul that would be expanded massively, and the military wouldn't be allowed to compete with external contractors, because that is socialized contracting, and he would have none of that.

Meanwhile Reps would be compelled to vote for the MIC so that their constituents would be satisfied from such military expansion. Republicans and Democrats alike. They always bloc vote for MIC. The only way to end it is to draw back the military expansion, so that Reps aren't beholden to the MIC, you don't dangle another MIC carrot like Ron Paul is suggesting.

As it stands now we can reduce foreign military, and it will have a net positive effect, but building it here is a very very bad idea, and for it to work would require an unreasonable policy shift that I cannot see happening, particularly if Ron Paul and his ideology was what America aspired toward.