Just put those people to work doing something more productive. Like getting to Mars or building a moon base. Or mining asteroids etc... The money is already being wasted...
infrastructure....how about a high speed rail system from Alaska to Mexico ….a traffic system that works to stop congested traffic in cities like Portland? The French are cleaning up around the globe with high speed rail contracts we show no interest in....the one they built in Taipei virtually cleaned the air in the city and made traffic manageable....convenient transport from the coast to the mountains should boost local ski biz, coastal restaurant biz...etc..casinos...I shouldn't have to drive 3 hours from Lane county to go to a Blazer game....high speed rail would get you there in a fraction of the time.....I'd go to Portland and Bend often if there was one.
An awful lot of that expense is in military pensions and pay which happens to be higher, much higher, than the military pay levels of any other country. The average sergeant earns over $50,000 a year plus room, board, clothing allowance, laundry, private gym, Special Services benefits such as skiing and the like and a host of other benefits. Almost forgot educational assistance. Subtract all of that and our military expense isn't that great. Now, consider all that we must protect around the world. Not just principally but all the leadership, bases, and exercises. Now add on the nuclear umbrella we provide. If it were me, I would spend even more. For example think of the good will if we could ramp up recycling so that we were a much smaller burden on the waste disposal of our allies where we had troops and bases stationed. I'd add money for the schooling of our troops stationed overseas. Think about the guys who were killed or disabled for life because we were too cheap to armor our Humvees.
Superior optics provides superior efficiency (reducing the cost of defense) in surveillance, intelligence gathering, threat detection and expeditious elimination of threat.
yes sir! anytime you can take a step or more out of a process and get a better result, that's efficiency! hopefully at a lower cost!
Which reminds me, all of Boeing's military contracts had the task of improving producibility. I was tasked with monitoring producibility in our tasks at Boeing Electronic's Manufacturing Engineering. We had this one manager who refused to comply even the slightest. My boss and his boss both told me to forget about him. I look back on it and realize he was cheating the government out of what they were paying us for. It's kind of pissed me off for the last few years.
