How much does the US spend on war?

[Cabin4]

So let's work on that $140 Billion dollar number. How much of that translates to work for Americans, either directly or indirectly? Directly is a GS or Contractor. Indirectly is the guy who owns the Subway across the street from the deployment center in Texas. Even the ones who were in business prior to 2001 have expanded business to accomodate the need. So we're going to ramp them down, and basically let go others. Maybe a good model for thinking is imagine a $140 Billion niche company going out of business.

There's nothing to work on. If people loose thier job as a result of us getting out of an immoral & unjust war, so be it. The fact that we will relieve the tax payers of the $140 billion burden will later translate in private sector jobs.

[teamnelson]

That's probably where you and I disagree ... I don't think its in a vacuum. I think its interconnected with so many other things, including foreign policy and commitments, that you won't see it fix itself later on.

[Dee]

TeamNelson in all likelihood we are far closer to having the same opinions on most issues concerning all talked about, than either of us think. Typing responses rather than sitting down face to face and being able to verbalize what one is thinking, and being able to ask questions of each other during that conversation, is much easier, and productive, than trying to respond to a myriad of statements made by one another.
With that said, I will only reply that the United States citizenry needs to take back their country, send the scoundrels now in office home for good, and get back to getting a long with other countries that want to get along, tell those that don't want to get along, to leave us alone or we will put them back in the stone age if they survive at all, and no, we're not going to rebuild your country if we bomb you into oblivion for jacking with us.
Revolution comes from within, in THIS COUNTRY, and every other country. If a country is tried of their dictatorship, then LET THEM KICK HIM OUT. LET THEM DO THE FIGHTING AND DYING. It's their country. We as a nation need to clean up our own act, get back on a Godly Track, and pay our bills, and let everyone else figure out how to pay theirs. Most of our foreign aid is neither needed, nor is it appreciated, or necessary. We cannot buy friends.
As far as dissembling our war chest, there is no need to disassemble it entirely ,but bring most of it home. WE ARE Germany's economy in many ways, and Japans'. They should be PAYING US, to be there. There are countless boondoggles that need to be disbanded and reeled in, including FAIR TRADE with other countries. We cannot continue to be a consumer nation, and continue to allow D.C. to sell us out with such programs as NAFTA.

[teamnelson]

Amen.