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**bZEUWO4F** · 12-09-2010, 06:53 PM

Are you suggesting that those aren't real costs associated with national security?

Some of those would be valid to add as expenses (the time congress spends on those matters certainly). You could also probably argue some foreign payments are national security related ... for example all of the bribes we paid to NK during the past few decades to prevent them from going full bore to get nukes.

The stimulus package and welfare aren't directly related to national security.

So all you've done in your attempt at sarcastically over-inflating the expenses is agree with my point. We spend ~1 trillion at a minimum on national security, the actual number is probably higher.

I agree. In fact, Id go so far as to say we spend our entire product on national security. I mean if the economy is imporatant to national security then its all spent on national security. That makes it about 14 trillion, wow! But wait, we should include what other countries spend too, because it relates to our national security. So lets make it 50 trillion or more!

12-09-2010, 06:53 PM	#29
bZEUWO4F Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 489 Senior Member	Are you suggesting that those aren't real costs associated with national security? Some of those would be valid to add as expenses (the time congress spends on those matters certainly). You could also probably argue some foreign payments are national security related ... for example all of the bribes we paid to NK during the past few decades to prevent them from going full bore to get nukes. The stimulus package and welfare aren't directly related to national security. So all you've done in your attempt at sarcastically over-inflating the expenses is agree with my point. We spend ~1 trillion at a minimum on national security, the actual number is probably higher. I agree. In fact, Id go so far as to say we spend our entire product on national security. I mean if the economy is imporatant to national security then its all spent on national security. That makes it about 14 trillion, wow! But wait, we should include what other countries spend too, because it relates to our national security. So lets make it 50 trillion or more!
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