I have seen the cost per day of being in Afghanistan as $300 million, each day, for 20 years.
While that greatly increased stock price for defense contractors, there seems in retrospect to be little other value for that money.
More of that tax money should have been devoted to cybersecurity, stem education, and even physical infrastructure that would safeguard water and food supply.
I am not naïve, I understand that both political parties are controlled by corporate/Wall Street interests. Still, you would hope that our elected officials could perhaps accept fewer kickbacks and function more in the interests of the American tax payer and not serve those financial interests who pay to get them elected and control them.
Really a sad situation. President Eisenhower was a good guy, and he nailed it when he warned the American public about the military industrial complex.
/rant
While that greatly increased stock price for defense contractors, there seems in retrospect to be little other value for that money.
More of that tax money should have been devoted to cybersecurity, stem education, and even physical infrastructure that would safeguard water and food supply.
I am not naïve, I understand that both political parties are controlled by corporate/Wall Street interests. Still, you would hope that our elected officials could perhaps accept fewer kickbacks and function more in the interests of the American tax payer and not serve those financial interests who pay to get them elected and control them.
Really a sad situation. President Eisenhower was a good guy, and he nailed it when he warned the American public about the military industrial complex.
/rant