a moral people, military spending would be more in line and proportional with what the rest of civilization spends on death and destruction with far more dollars spent on infrastructure and raising living standards for the vast majority.
But our legislature is under the undue influence of the military industrial media complex.
Any politician who comes out against military bloat is labeled soft on the ism or bogyman of the day and smeared in the corporate media.
Legislators who go along with the insanity are very well paid shills for defense contractors. How many have Cayman Islands bank accounts to conceal bribery?