I keep wondering when someone will point out the anomoly of the US Military budget being at an all time high both in real dollars and as a percentage of GDP...yet soldiers have to live in barracks that are, to put it bluntly, shitholes, equipment is out of date, they have to worry about being electrocuted in the shower when on deployment...oh, and the military budget doesn't even cover the cost of war, which is dealt with in "supplemental" appropriations.
Yet no one seems to give a hot damn.
Does anyone really think we could actually win a war if we can't properly equip, house, and otherwise care for our soldiers in spite of having the sort of budgetary leeway that King Midas would envy?
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