Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 13 days agoWhat could the US get rid of to balance the budget and make prices drop very quickly? How is some trash or misspent money on thing we no longer need?message-squaremessage-square36linkfedilinkarrow-up125arrow-down17
arrow-up118arrow-down1message-squareWhat could the US get rid of to balance the budget and make prices drop very quickly? How is some trash or misspent money on thing we no longer need?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 13 days agomessage-square36linkfedilink
minus-squareTalcosis@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·12 days agoKeep in mind that the US military is a giant welfare program. Sure, it’s a lot of money, but a lot of that money is keeping the last vestiges of manufacturing alive in bumfuck nowhere, Middle America, where they still weld tanks together.
minus-squareqyron@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·12 days agoYou don’t believe part of those workshops can be converted to other use?
Keep in mind that the US military is a giant welfare program. Sure, it’s a lot of money, but a lot of that money is keeping the last vestiges of manufacturing alive in bumfuck nowhere, Middle America, where they still weld tanks together.
You don’t believe part of those workshops can be converted to other use?
Probably not profitably.
We will never know, I risk.