Argumentative Essay About Military Spending

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Military spending is good for the economy. Military bases transform the economy of the cities they are built in. Naval Bases in Virginia have raised the average house hold income. The income in these cities is higher than the average in America. Technology companies open and flourished around universities that received large amounts of military research money, thereby creating areas such as Silicon Valley, the route 128 corridor around Boston, the research triangle in North Carolina. Cities that house Naval Carriers reap many benefits. One single carrier can bring in over 6,000 jobs and over 400 million in local spending. This cause many cities to debate which city will get the honor. When the Navy announced it wanted to move one carrier …show more content…

In a New York Times poll, 55% of Americans were willing to cut defense in comparison to 21% that were willing to cut Medicare and 13% that were willing to cut social security. Even though the majority of people would rather see cuts to defense congress has remained apprehensive to cutting defense spending. While American's worry about the increasing cost of health care, their tax money is being used to fund a military more interested in aiding the health care of European allies.
The American people have been quiet for too long. It is time for the U.S to take a microscope to defense spending and weed out what is no longer important or affordable. Americans have been content to avoid the mess that is defense budget and leave it those "with bottom-line reasons for force-feeding it like a foie gras goose". It is time Americans set a reasonable budget and demand congress stick to it.
"Countries that continuously fight wars invariably build powerful national-security bureaucracies that undermine civil liberties and make it difficult to hold leaders accountable for their

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