[coldtea]

>Bluntly, this is BS. A bit of the US economy, yes. Half? Not even close.

I'm not talking directly -- like the arms industry and the oil industry and so on. I'm talking about the cascading effect that pumps up and propels the rest.

[AnimalMuppet]

And I still say it's BS. Or, to be more charitable, excessive hyperbole.

[coldtea]

Well, not if you live out in the rest of the world and have suffered the consequences for near a century...

[AnimalMuppet]

How does where you live change what fraction of the US economy is based on the country's military might?

I suppose, though, that your claim might be true of the fraction of the US economy that happens where you are...