(02-04-2018, 07:58 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: It's not that we're spending money on unnecessary things, it's who we're buying the stuff from and how much they get away with charging the government. We spend more on military spending in this country than the next 8 countries behind us, combined. Why? Because politicians make deals with heads of certain corporations who make military goods and basically allow them to charge ungodly markups on items that cost them pennies on the dollar to make. It's ridiculous what these companies like Halliburton, McDonnell Douglas, Sperry Corporation, Gould Corporation and others are getting away with by overcharging the government. Add this to the outrageous cost of what we spend "gifting" foreign countries with military equipment and it seems criminal. No one is addressing this though. If we could reign in these two areas, we could cut the deficit greatly, but no conservatives even want to address military spending, unless it's adding more money to the piles of cash we're already wasting.