Shots fired at Pak Check post by US-Afghan Forces

[La_Parisienne]

Re: Shots fired at Pak Check post by US-Afghan Forces

@Doppleganger

LP, surely you can see how wars can be a drag on the economy? Look at where the trillions we spent on Iraq and Afghanistan could have been put to better use in education and improving infrastructure across America.

I think there is more to it though. America has used wars as the impetus for technological innovation. A huge proportion of civilian technology have their roots in defense research (and that includes the internet).

i urge you to think about two things:

1. is quality if education really directly proportional to level of expenditure, beyond a certain minimum?
2. the dollars involved in a population living 10 years longer than what social security was calculated upon, dwarfs any wartime expenditure. By 2020 (which is only 8.5 years from now) the interest service on borrowings from social security is expected to be 900billion. But the short fall in social security is projected to be even bigger than that!

in contrast, the wars cost under $400B annually and employ a lot of people