>>113853577Jesus, after that first post, I was not expecting a high degree of economic literacy, but you've managed to surprise me still.
The average American largely does not see the benefits of these war efforts. In the first place, these wars are funded out of our pockets—either directly through taxation or indirectly through inflation; to the tune of hundreds of billions to trillions per year. We do not see a return on this investment, even if some of the resources we manage to buy end up in our hands. It's not a generative process, it's a redistributive one, pulling money from the lower and middle classes and the unconnected uppers to those with their irons of the military industrial complex's fires. Our budget does not "fill up" with money from this effort, by the way, the government is in 23 trillion dollars of debt, and climbing literally every second.
The average American's quality of life comes from the market, when the government gets its incompetent, grubby fingers out of it and stops redistributing our wealth to its cronies and the more exploitable dregs of our population. War does little to help that.
