The US military spends more than any other military on the planet, indeed several-fold. They also appear to complain more than any other military about not getting enough.
So even though the planned 2016 Pentagon budget is already $34 billion over the budget caps, the Pentagon has submitted a new round of “wish lists,” seeking large amounts of additional funds for warplanes.
It’s never enough to just ask, they also have to be ingrates about it, with the wish lists coming with a screed warning Congress that it wouldn’t accept any of these warplanes unless they also come with an even bigger military spending.
There is already a growing split in the Republican Majority over this question, as budget hawks concerned about runaway spending run headlong into the more traditional hawks, who see any conceivable weapon of war as an absolute must, cost be damned.
The sad thing is they'll get what they want because the Congress has been neutered by the MIC – there's no stiff pushback worth mentioning.
The so-called fiscal conservatives moan amount budget deficits but say nothing when the military-industrial complex (their campaign donors) fleeces Americans
As the War Department the US military was a non-lethal parasite. No one can doubt the economic benefits to the US of WWI and WWII.
Since re-branding as the Defense Department and with its larvae having matured into a plague of other security entities it has become a parasitoid eating at the vitals of the US and the globe. It is now, clearly ready to paralyze its host as a prelude to devouring the US completely.
A superbug that has grown more powerful than the only antidote available – democracy.
Those fools in and at the Pentagon could not manage a Bake sale without loosing the money!
Polls: Americans Are Sick of the War On Terror, War On Drugs … And All of the Other Failed U.S. Wars May 1, 2014
Americans Turn Anti-War The American people are now overwhelmingly opposed to more war in Ukraine, Syria, Iran and elsewhere. A new Wall Street Journal/NBC poll shows: Americans in large numbers want the U.S. to reduce its role in world affairs even as a showdown with Russia over Ukraine preoccupies Washington …. In a marked change from past decades, nearly half of those surveyed want the U.S. to be less active on the global stage, with fewer than one-fifth calling for more active engagement—an anti-interventionist current that sweeps across party lines.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/05/polls-amer…
US Pursues 134 Wars Around the World By Staff News Analysis – September 17, 2014
The US is now involved in 134 wars or none, depending on your definition of war …The White House spent much of last week trying to figure out if the word "war" was the right one to describe its military actions against the Islamic State. US Secretary of State John Kerry was at first reluctant: "We're engaged in a major counterterrorism operation," he told CBS News on Sept. 11. "I think war is the wrong terminology and analogy but the fact is that we are engaged in a very significant global effort to curb terrorist activity… I don't think people need to get into war fever on this. I think they have to view it as a heightened level of counter terrorist activity." – Global Post
http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/35654/U…
Corporatocracy: How the Corporate Welfare State Divides and Conquers
A small, readily-identifiable ruling oligarchy that no serious political observer denies the existence of is able to keep the public from attacking it by dividing them along ideological grounds so that the public spends all their time arguing over definitions and splitting doctrinal hairs instead of attacking the commonly acknowledged enemy. You couldn't ask for a more perfect system of control.
http://youtu.be/Ez8I8VGLNUw
Listen to this and the Trillions lost you will hear nowhere else except here in this clip for overseas. By the way we have only one party in D.C., and it is the War Party!