Comments by "nexus1g" (@nexus1g) on "Bet You Didn't Know We're Still At War In..." video.

  1. Questioning your numbers on the cost. There are 2.5 million veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars alone. Many have served a total of a year or more in repeated tours. That alone is $5.25 trillion at $2.1 million a year per soldier. And a daily cost of $100 million, but a lifetime cost of $750 billion? How does this add up to you? You'd need to be at war for 20 years at $100 million a day to add up to $750 billion.
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  2. Alan G I'm questioning why none of the numbers they provide balance out.
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  3. Alan G Not really. The charts you see that shows over 50% of the US budget being spent on military is dishonestly only the portion that's discretionary spending. The reason the military budget is so huge in that chart is because all military spending is discretionary. If you look at both discretionary and mandatory spending, 2.2 trillion is on medicare/medicaid and other healthcare, social security, welfare, unemployment, debt interest, government pension, etc. About $660 billion a year is on the military of the remaining $1.3 trillion in spending. This includes ongoing wars, intel, contracts, R&D, etc.
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  4. Yeah, because both can't be done concurrently? The last thing the world needs is yet another nation whose only foreign trade resource is its people. We have a lot of resources that we should be exporting with a portion being used locally. Trump isn't going to be a good president. He's not even going to be a mediocre president, but the one point he's right on is that we're over a barrel on international trade and we're not even asking for lube to be used in the contracts.
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  5. I don't know who you're listening to, but you need to stop it. You're getting bad information.
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  6. It's time we get tough on the US President's power to alone make war. No longer should we stand for the president to make decisions under the thin guise of "military action," or "peacekeeping."
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