886,000 Million dollar military budget

886 Billion dollars

Bigger than ever, biggest in the World by far
and there will be add on expenditures, may
total 1 Trillion in 2024.

What is the plan?

Does the Biden Administration want to bankrupt the US?
ruin the dollar? or get us into some more wars?

They have something in mind but what is it?

 

They have to replenish what Biden gave Zelensky for free while they charge Israel for tank shells.

 

Why not that much money? Ukraine is gonna need it so they can lose to Russia a year from now instead of tomorrow.

 

You forgot the option "Neither."


This was a bipartisan effort in the MDAA. DoD defense brings lots of jobs to lots of Congressional districts and states, many of whom are conservative politically, like Texas, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and some liberal states like California, Washington, Virginia, and New York, among other states. It also includes pay raises for US soldiers, and multiyear procurement contracts which will include the USS columbia class, USS Virginia class, and the Arleigh Burke Class. So, it was a good deal, and this is 50% of the discretionary expenditures within the entire federal budget. So, this budget "keeps America safe" which is what you don't want politically apparently.

 

Not really.

 

It also preserves warrantless spying on Americans by extending section 702. Cotton, Cruz, Rubio. So next time they are going on and on and on about censorship or some other damn abuse by the Executive Branch, remember that three pretenders agreed to extend warrantless searches in exchange for this near $T "Defense" bill.

 

$886,000 million / $162 million employed = $5,470 per employed person

The employed US public won't miss an average of 5,470 dollars each
for the privilege of bombing somewhere and spreading freedom.

 

I wrote an editorial several years ago where I argued that the U.S defense budget should by one trillion dollars with annual increases of at least 50 billon a year.......At least....

 

Governments #1 job is to protect its people.

Strange how it’s expenditures in that aspect are what’s blamed for our financial problems whilst the magnitudes larger social welfare entitlements get a free pass.

whoever decided “promote the general welfare” is an untouchable holier than thou spend whatever you want on Ponzi scheme freebies #1 role of government is the biggest moron ever.

 

Several military commanders have complained about congress spending money on things the military doesn't want or need, but the money is allocated sole because it benefits jobs in that state.

 

Whatever you do, don’t go into detail or anything. Might spoil whatever point you’re trying to make

 

To do what Reagan did. Spend the Russians into economic disaster.

 

US military budget has been the biggest in the World for quite some time now. In other words, this isn't new this year.

 

Hmm this is how you approached the defense budget with our last president:

Very interesting.

 

Collective defense is given this much money, but collective health care is not possible. What is being defended?

 

Once again you seem confused.
A) I never claimed I support our bloated military budget in the post you replied to. All I did was point out our budget has pretty much always been the biggest in the world. In other words I simply pointed out a fact.
B) I never said ANYTHING about Trump in the other posts you supplied. You do know the president doesn't do the work setting the budget right?
C) I have always believed our military budget is ridiculously high and still do.

But I am flattered how much you pay attention to me. I do have to tell you I'm married. Sorry to disappoint you.

 

Bigger than ever…..in current/nominal dollars, however, as a percentage of GDP, the OP didn’t do his homework.

 

Well, you have to work hard to keep the military budget ahead of interest payments. Biden does not purposefully want to bankrupt the US, but most of his policies have that in the end. If you asked him if he wanted a war he would lick his ice cream cone and say, "Nah."

 

If anything, the current world situation demonstrates that we need to dramatically increase our defense spending, which is one of the few functions the Feds are doing that they are Constitutionally required and allowed to do.

The Russians are showing aggression, which may continue. I'm less concerned about that now that I know how much of a joke their military and it's equipment actually are, but unless this resolves in a manner in which the nation of Russia is broken up, with Pooteen either dead or on trial for war crimes and more, and it's militaristic, expansionistic actions are not only halted, but are not at all desired by whatever government(s) emerge from the ashes.

We have millions of illegals pouring over our borders virtually unchecked- How many of those millions are either terrorist cells, Chinese spies and/or soldiers, same from Russia, Iran, other Jihadist organizations, and other sorts of violent psychopaths are amongst those millions? Nobody knows, but anyone who says it's none is either an idiot or lying, and if it's even 1%, it's tens of thousands or more.

China. Do I really need to expand on that.

As for what we're giving and/or selling to Ukraine and Israel, a lot of it is older stuff that would have needed to be replaced soon, anyway, so let's not overstate what it's actually costing us that we weren't going to have to spend anyway. Just like the pay our soldiers get, they're getting paid whether they're in a warzone of a conflict you don't like or just sitting at a domestic base training.

 

If the general welfare is being degraded due to excess military spending, the question imposes itself again; what is being defended?

 

everything

 

The military and it's budget is like car or house insurance -- you pay a lot but you hope you never need it.

 

We need the choice: "Both".
At least military spending is in the budget!

We are supplying two wars, and tip toeing into a war with Russia, and a war with China.
The stakes are our customer base and defense partners in Europe, and freedom of the seas allowing US shipping free access to through the Indian Ocean. In the long run American trade access could be bottled up to where only Western Europe and South America will be accessible without asking China for a permit.
BTW, the Philippines are also at risk as of this date.
Ukraine is also a NATO buffer state against Russia.

 

Citation needed.