Keep in mind that the US military is a giant welfare program. Sure, it’s a lot of money, but a lot of that money is keeping the last vestiges of manufacturing alive in bumfuck nowhere, Middle America, where they still weld tanks together.
Yep. About 20% of the military budget is straight salary for enlisted/commissioned personnel. A further 15-20% is paying salary of employees with contracts to the military.
Keep in mind that the US military is a giant welfare program. Sure, it’s a lot of money, but a lot of that money is keeping the last vestiges of manufacturing alive in bumfuck nowhere, Middle America, where they still weld tanks together.
Yep. About 20% of the military budget is straight salary for enlisted/commissioned personnel. A further 15-20% is paying salary of employees with contracts to the military.
You don’t believe part of those workshops can be converted to other use?
Probably not profitably.
We will never know, I risk.