Only one in ten American voters want a bigger military budget. Congress keeps approving massive spending increases anyway, as it did when it voted for a nearly $1 trillion military budget last week.
Only one in ten American voters want a bigger military budget. Congress keeps approving massive spending increases anyway, as it did when it voted for a nearly $1 trillion military budget last week.
Americans want that until it’s the plant near their county that manufactures fighter jets that suffers the cutback, or the huge base near their home on which half the town depends, or his cousin who couldn’t afford university otherwise, the one who gets fired.
The problem is that the bulk of American public spending is there; if it’s cut, it would have to be replaced with other productive public spending, or the country’s economy will collapse and that second part is much more difficult.