Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 5:57 am
Shaggai wrote:United commonwealth of ayrshire wrote:Hey... Guys, I know this may sound UNTHINKABLE, but why not stop investing so much in the armed forces? You already spend more on yours than the rest of the world put together does...
Now, now, not the entire rest of the world. Only the rest of the top fourteen.
I read it was the rest of the world. Looking at Wikipedia, it looks like I'm wrong, but even so it's an immense amount of money. About 39% of the world's military spending is done by the US. You might not be in such a pickle if it wasn't for that.