Reply #44: The thing you are taking out of the equation is that when I buy food

[truedelphi]

I pay cash that I earned recently to buy that food. So during a bad week, there is no Hagen Daz in the mix. Often there is only cabbage or pea soup.

Not so the military. No matter what the economy is doing, they still build their 46 billion dollar boats if someone somewhere in Congress has the clout to get it throught he rest of the legislature.

And when that boat is scrapped, I cannot carve it up and throw it in the soup pot.

When the military buys their three billion (plus) each year for their needs, they are not paying cash,
they are using the Great Big IOU in the sky. This means that there is a huge possibility that the Baby Boomers Social Security will pay for it, plus our grand kids and great grand kids.