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Originally Posted by elphenor
This is the actual reason cutting the military is so difficult
It's basically the biggest social program we have where people get paid to do work we don't need half the time
And Republicans love it
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Totally. Like, objectively I can not justify continuing to subsidize where I live because it basically means that you can't cut military spending simply due to the fake economic zones created by the military, but it doesn't make me want where I live to become an economic dead zone. Before the navy came my area was basically a backwater supporting longshoremen fishing for crabs, and there really isn't much to fall back on if the naval base gets gutted. I support cutting military spending but I don't want to starve.