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Re:U.S. Army fudged its accounts by trillions of dollars, au... by MikeKusold on Friday August 19, 2016 @02:27PM (#12322237)
> Why do US citizens tolerate spending a disproportionate amount of their financial resources on their military?

Any congress member that suggests cutting funding to the military gets painted as not supporting the troops during his/her next election.

Also, no major party will adopt the reigning in of military spending platform because then the opposing party will constantly bring up that the unemployment rate increased due to the other party's budget cuts.

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Re:U.S. Army fudged its accounts by trillions of dollars, au... by josho on Friday August 19, 2016 @02:58PM (#12322571)
That explains congress, thank you.

It doesn't exactly explain the citizenry (it does for those that might be left unemployed from military cuts, but I expect that's a small % of the electorate).

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