US military spendings.

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How can the US have problems of any kind (poverty, drug epidemics and high crime rates), yet spend trillions (around 900 billion this year) of dollars into military, which cannot create new value by itself. Think about this, every dollar invested into "military stuff" cannot create new dollars. The investing chain ends with military expanditures. All the while spending more on military than the next 9 richest countries combined.

I get that the US needs a large military to protect its global economic scheme, but THIS much? There needs to be a good reason, that I'm not seeing.