Re:The final, anguished years of a warrior-scholar who expos...
by scotty79 on Friday December 10, 2021 @05:21AM
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> ... either served in the military or were civilian employees and contractors of the DoD ...
> ... seeing how horrible the impact of war has been on my friends and people in my community ...
They earned money from it. US wars are first and formost sort of a public works program that's an excuse for paying a lot of people their salaries and creating orders for companies. They are of course created mostly to advance the careers and wealth of people in the echolons of military, but they feed a lot of ordinary Americans. They are mechanism of funneling tax money into the pockets of rich bureaucrats and people that economy doesn't need. How unneeded they are is clearly visible when the war ends and they are tossed to the curb (regardless of the damage they suffered).
> ... seeing how horrible the impact of war has been on my friends and people in my community ...
They earned money from it. US wars are first and formost sort of a public works program that's an excuse for paying a lot of people their salaries and creating orders for companies. They are of course created mostly to advance the careers and wealth of people in the echolons of military, but they feed a lot of ordinary Americans. They are mechanism of funneling tax money into the pockets of rich bureaucrats and people that economy doesn't need. How unneeded they are is clearly visible when the war ends and they are tossed to the curb (regardless of the damage they suffered).