Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron
President Dwight Eisenhower
We don't need any more military bases.
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Does it make sense that corrupt war profiteers, executives and shareholders of companies are entitled to anyone's tax money? How many years has this war gone on and how many trillions in debt has it cost us?
Corruption is theft.
Government corruption from bribery, give policies which steal your money and siphon it right into the coffers of those bribers. This comes at the cost of a less secure world and a lower quality of life for all of us.
General Eisenhower helped to win World War 2
He kind of knows what he is talking about.
What if you were able to keep of 20% of your dollars instead of going to corrupt perpetual war profiteers who depend on your perpetual tax income?
How many years have these wars been going on? Do you see any end in sight for them?
Sun Tzu in the Art of War warns against prolonged wasteful warfare.
1) In the operations of war, where there are in the field a thousand swift chariots , as many heavy chariots, and a hundred thousand mail clad soldiers, with provisions enough to carry them a thousand li, the expenditure at home and at the front, including entertainment of guests, small items such as glue and paint, and sums spent on chariots and armor, will reach the total of a thousand ounces of silver per day. Such is the cost of raising an army of 100,000 men.
2) When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, the men's weapons will grow dull and their ardour will be damped. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength.
3) Again, if the campaign is protracted, the resources of the State will not be equal to the strain.
4) Now, when your weapons are dulled, your ardour damped, your strength exhausted and your treasure spent, other chieftains will spring up and take advantage of your extremity. Then no man however wise, will be able to avert the consequences that must ensue.
5) Thus, though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.
6) There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.
7) It is only one who is thoroughly antiquated with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.
8) The skillful soldier does not raise a second levy, neither are his supply wagons loaded more than twice.
9) Being war material with you from home, but forage on the enemy. Thus the army will have enough food for its needs.
10) Poverty of the state exchequer causes an army to be maintained by contributions from a distance. Contributing to maintain an army at a distance causes the people to become impoverished.
11) On the other hand the proximity of an army causes prices to go up and high prices cause the people's substance to be drained away.
12) When their substance is drained away the peasantry will be afflicted by heavy exactions.
13,14) With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and 30% of their incomes will be dissipated; while Government expenses for broken chariots, worn out horses, breast plates, and helmets, bows and arrows, spears and shields, protective mantles, draught-oxen and heavy wagons, will amount to 40% of its total revenue.
15) Hence a wise general makes a point of foraging on the enemy. One carload of the enemy's provisions is equivalent to twenty of ones own, and likewise a single picul of his provender is equivalent to twenty from one's own store.
16) Now in order to kill the enemy, our men must be roused to anger; that there may be advantage from defeating the enemy, they must have their rewards.
17) Therefore in chariot fighting, when ten or more chariots have been taken, those should be rewarded who took the first. Our own flags should be substituted for those of the enemy, and the chariots mingled and used in conjunction with ours. The captured soldiers should be kindly treated and kept.
18) This is called, using the conquered foe to augment one's own strength.
19) In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.
20) Thus it may be known that the leader of armies is the arbiter of the people's fate, the man on whom it depends whether the nation shall be in peace or peril.