The Military ruined this country

[ProgressiveProfessor]

120. Innovation is never self sustaining

Its hard to plan and budget for, in and out of Government. Not sure it is possible to measure success. One helluva a lot of money has been spent, that's for damn sure. I used that short list to illustrate that good stuff comes from military oriented research, since it clearly has.

PAX Americana was done at the direction of the Federal Government in all of our names. The military did not spend a dime the Congress did not appropriate and the President approve. That includes Ike. I am not the only person to have pointed that out in this thread.

The would of/could of questions are interesting speculation. It is really hard to tell. In my current area of interest, the education system that had seemed to serve us well for generations clearly has broken down. More theories than dollars as to why that happened. Minority groups that had substantive investment have not risen at the level expected either.