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Military Industrial Complex Too Expensive
Military Industrial Complex Too Expensive

November 17th, 2010 The USA is the greatest military machine in the world, ever.
The USA sells more weapons around the world than any other country by far. The
USA also has the largest military machine in the world and spends more money by
far on the military than any other country.

This is from the New York Times

WASHINGTON — Despite a recession that knocked down global arms sales last year,
the United States expanded its role as the world's leading weapons supplier,
increasing its share to more than two-thirds of all foreign armaments deals,
according to a new Congressional study.

The United States signed weapons agreements valued at $37.8 billion in 2008, or
68.4 percent of all business in the global arms bazaar, up significantly from
American sales of $25.4 billion the year before.

Italy was a distant second, with $3.7 billion in worldwide weapons sales in
2008, while Russia was third with $3.5 billion in arms sales last year — down
considerably from the $10.8 billion in weapons deals signed by Moscow in 2007.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/07/world/07weapons.html?_r=1

The question is with no real threat in the world except the elusive terrorists
and drug barrons, who are all these military machines fighting? Unless there is
some secret alien threat coming from space that the government is refusing to
tell us about, why do we spend so much on the military?

This is from Seeking Alpha

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