Reality and fiction meet in a bad way

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Foodstamp said:Well, the United States practically carries the load economically when it comes to helping other countries. [...] It seems every country hates our country, even though our country plays a huge role in their ability to maintain their way of life. To top it off, half of Americans hate our country and constantly want it to be more like France, or some other leftist state. Those people often do not realize that we cannot afford to live like those countries because we are too busy allocating funds to a military to protect not only our country, but other countries' ways of life.

And part of the reason our military budget is so big is that every time the military proposes to close some redundant bases as a cost-cutting measure, every politician that represents the area the base is in, domestic or foreign, protests about the loss of economic stimulus to their community.

The military even has trouble shutting down production of equipment that they don't even want any more, because the politicos won't let the program die.