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by darkmuck 2743 days ago
Much of the defense spending has been largely a jobs program that employs thousands of people
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How about we employ construction workers and engineers to build stuff that makes America truly "Great" again instead of this crap about lets build better bombs
$Trillions to employ thousands of people is a bad deal.
> Much of the defense spending has been largely a jobs program that employs thousands of people

More accurately, it's been a subsidy to the capitalists controlling particular corporations, with strategic distribution of jobs among Congressional districts as political cover (or hostages, depending on how you look at it.)