Money should go towards the poor and not the capitalist war machine.
I totally agree.
Unfortunately, this is why it’s so important that businesses aren’t publicly owned (by the people, not the stock market.) This means that whoever manufactured these weapons put the US deeper in debt to enrich themselves, now the US has to sell the equipment that put them in debt to try to get a little bit out of it.
Hmm… Brilliant. Privatize the gains, socialize the losses!
“Think of how many jobs building an aircraft carrier provides.” -An actual dog brained take, said to me IRL
I hate to quote fucking Eisenhower but even broken clocks etc etc…
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
Even he was warning us about the MIC, and now people say “what about those employed making bombers? Surely that’s the only job they’re capable of! What else would they do?”
I’ve heard similar takes from those drooling boomers also. Think about all the jobs making missiles for war create! Not as many as you’d think old boomer guy.
the MiC is no joke the only properly funded welfare program in the country. it’s just welfare for consultants and PMC instead of like you know, people who need the money.
