Henry Porter It's an extraordinarily inefficient jobs program. In addition, as the US found when virtually every reserve soldier and airman had to be activated to fight in the mideast, the  military capabilities funded by the spending are inadequate. The  average taxpayer has no idea how small, and expensive, the current DOD is. The cost of a single soldier in Iraq/Afghanistan was something like $750k-$1Million/year. The current US Army has fewer troops now than were deployed to Viet Nam in 1968,

Henry Porter It's an extraordinarily inefficient jobs program. In addition, as the US found when virtually every reserve soldier and airman had to be activated to fight in the mideast, the  military capabilities funded by the spending are inadequate. The  average taxpayer has no idea how small, and expensive, the current DOD is. The cost of a single soldier in Iraq/Afghanistan was something like $750k-$1Million/year. The current US Army has fewer troops now than were deployed to Viet Nam in 1968,

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