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Originally Posted by The Batlord
Are you kidding? There was a massive scare when they were planning on possibly moving some fighter squadrons to Jacksonville when some big defense cuts were coming down the pipe. Say what you want about defense spending, but you clearly known **** all about how it will affect people in areas where defense spending means the difference between making ends meet and poverty.
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The issue with the defense spending is that the money within the budget gets used the wrong way consistently. Instead of using the money to keep certain bases up and get better equipment for our troops. The money usually ends up going out the door to private contractors overseas to do some of the same jobs that our troops could be doing with better equipment.
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Originally Posted by The Batlord
Totally. Like, objectively I can not justify continuing to subsidize where I live because it basically means that you can't cut military spending simply due to the fake economic zones created by the military, but it doesn't make me want where I live to become an economic dead zone. Before the navy came my area was basically a backwater supporting longshoremen fishing for crabs, and there really isn't much to fall back on if the naval base gets gutted. I support cutting military spending but I don't want to starve.
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No one is talking about starving it.