People will point out that US health does get a decent chunk of money, though they'll leave out that it goes to others (insurance profit) so the care part doesn't actually get that value. Like how US spends more just in tax per-capita than many countries with universal care spend total, but we get significantly less for it.
So really it should mirror the war table but with a fat CEO or two smoking a cigar, with the emaciated doctor excluded from the table.
Metal Gear solid is what really opened my eyes to a global economy being supported by war. I know war and conflict is to an extent, part of being human. But it's been monetized and it's become too big to fail.
Clearly 830Bn budget for Military every single year is too goddamn much, but at the same time I'm all for supporting NATO and opposing Russia. I think slowly reducing the military budget of the USA would be good, but keeping active operations overseas alive. As much as I realize the USA has caused more harm than good, I also realize suddenly ending our operations can be just as harmful, such as when the Trump Admin released 5k Taliban Fighters and withdrew from Afghanistan, to which the Biden Administration followed through with.
This cartoon is from 70 years ago. 80 years ago was 1943 which was in the middle of World War 2. At that point, war getting a sizable chunk of the GDP was perhaps more understandable. So the caption on the cartoon actually undersells it.
That's because the people who are in charge haven't changed much. Sure, their names have changed, but they're largely the same type of person who do the same types of things.
This is longer true. Social security, Medicare, and medicaid are all less than 80 years old and make up more of the federal budget than defense spending.
These are the top 5 budget item according to the us treasury for 2022.
Social security 23%
Heath 15%
National defense 13%
Medicare 13%
Income security 13%
“Veterans benefits and services” is another category which I guess could be considered war spending or healthcare.
Well kinda depends on the country. Switzerland spends 2 bilion for the military but 8 bilion for education and 35 bilion for health care. I am sure, the balance looks pretty similar or even more extrem in the northic european country
Every time there's a war somewhere, i get reminded that "humanize" are a lot like chimps.
They are so clever, nice to each other, only until things goes to sh*t unexpectedly. That's when hell explodes, everything is "allowed" Faces get ripped off, fingers bitten off ect.
I still don't get why humans need wars are each period of peace. As if having too much good things got boring .
I don't know anymore if this is true, sure politicians give all the money to war, but war feeds down into science, healthcare, education and more.
Now this may be a statement of a fool who is just too young or too disillusioned to really see war for what it is, violence in the name of something or someone, but it's really not that simple.
Everything is complex and can't be boiled down to a simple comic.