commando Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 lol...fox business 1 1 Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted November 2, 2022 Author Share Posted November 2, 2022 Well...this is frustrating. Diesel Shortage Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted November 11, 2022 Author Share Posted November 11, 2022 I was just thinking about the labor market and trying to figure out how the US is going to get back to having enough people to employ. It's not a problem that's going to go away anytime soon unless we have a deep recession and nobody needs employees anymore. Obviously, that's not what we want. So, I have preached for years that it's absolutely crazy how big our military is. It's stupid. In 2021, we have 1.4 million members of the military. And, the expense to run that is astronomical and we could use that money elsewhere to make people's lives better....like infrastructure, healthcare...etc. So, let's say we reduce the military to 1 million. That would roughly be 28% reduction in service members. That would then be 400,000 people that would be available to industry to hire and help keep the economy growing. We spend 1.94 trillion dollars on this bloated organization. So, reduce that budget by 20%. That would be 38.8 billion dollars to use in the US doing great things. I say reduce the numbers by 28% but the budget only 20% because, I want the remaining 1 million service members to still be the best equipt, best trained and best cared for military in the world. Sounds like a win win win. 1 Link to comment
Archy1221 Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 33 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said: We spend 1.94 trillion dollars on this bloated organization Is the military budget really almost $2 trillion per year? I thought it was more around $750 billionish. 1 Link to comment
Archy1221 Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 40 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said: I was just thinking about the labor market and trying to figure out how the US is going to get back to having enough people to employ. It's not a problem that's going to go away anytime soon unless we have a deep recession and nobody needs employees anymore. Obviously, that's not what we want. So, I have preached for years that it's absolutely crazy how big our military is. It's stupid. In 2021, we have 1.4 million members of the military. And, the expense to run that is astronomical and we could use that money elsewhere to make people's lives better....like infrastructure, healthcare...etc. So, let's say we reduce the military to 1 million. That would roughly be 28% reduction in service members. That would then be 400,000 people that would be available to industry to hire and help keep the economy growing. We spend 1.94 trillion dollars on this bloated organization. So, reduce that budget by 20%. That would be 38.8 billion dollars to use in the US doing great things. I say reduce the numbers by 28% but the budget only 20% because, I want the remaining 1 million service members to still be the best equipt, best trained and best cared for military in the world. Sounds like a win win win. This is what I saw. https://rollcall.com/2022/07/14/pentagon-hill-added-58-billion-to-current-defense-budget/ The $58.55 billion total amounts to nearly 8 percent of the Defense Department’s fiscal 2022 base budget appropriation of $742.3 billion. 1 Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted November 12, 2022 Author Share Posted November 12, 2022 15 hours ago, Archy1221 said: This is what I saw. https://rollcall.com/2022/07/14/pentagon-hill-added-58-billion-to-current-defense-budget/ The $58.55 billion total amounts to nearly 8 percent of the Defense Department’s fiscal 2022 base budget appropriation of $742.3 billion. Well crap. When I google “us military budget” the first thing that pops up mentions 1.94 trillion. But, you are correct with your 742 billion. So, taking my idea, the military budget would be reduced to 594 billion. that would be 148 billion that could be used on something else. Link to comment
funhusker Posted November 12, 2022 Share Posted November 12, 2022 1 hour ago, BigRedBuster said: Well crap. When I google “us military budget” the first thing that pops up mentions 1.94 trillion. But, you are correct with your 742 billion. So, taking my idea, the military budget would be reduced to 594 billion. that would be 148 billion that could be used on something else. Or, it could just not be spent… 1 Link to comment
ZRod Posted November 12, 2022 Share Posted November 12, 2022 27 minutes ago, funhusker said: Or, it could just not be spent… That's kind of a big chunk to take out of the economy though. Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted November 12, 2022 Author Share Posted November 12, 2022 17 minutes ago, ZRod said: That's kind of a big chunk to take out of the economy though. Or, it can be left in everyday American’s pockets. Or Federal taxes could be lowered so that local and state governments could raise taxes to help with things like education and local infrastructure. Link to comment
Archy1221 Posted November 12, 2022 Share Posted November 12, 2022 The debt service bill will soon be as large or larger then the military budget. Hope that sinks in to everyone that one of our largest line item expenses is going to just pay off interest on debt. 1 Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted November 12, 2022 Author Share Posted November 12, 2022 2 hours ago, Archy1221 said: The debt service bill will soon be as large or larger then the military budget. Hope that sinks in to everyone that one of our largest line item expenses is going to just pay off interest on debt. Wouldn’t it be nice if we had our deficits down to 2015 levels…at least. Link to comment
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