Military Spending Research Paper

America is known as the most powerful country in the world. But how exactly did it acquire the status as a dominant super power? Well in order to be powerful, a country needs to have a strong military and should be able to maintain it, which is something that the U.S. has always been able to do. Over the years, America has invested heavily on its military, so much so that it spends billions of dollars every year on tanks, guns, ammunition, bombs, planes, etc. Defense spending has never been higher since World War II. In fact, billions and billions of dollars are used to buy sophisticated weapons that are expensive to maintain, unpractical, and most of the time are not even used in combat. Does our government really need to invest so much on our military to ensure the well being of all Americans? I argue that if America truthfully wants to ensure the well being of its citizens, it should invest its money on basic human needs rather than on military spending.
America is able to fund its military through tax money. That’s rights, every time the average American pays his or her taxes,

I agree that it is great that many military jobs are available to help employ Americans that really need jobs, however, that same money investing in the military could have created twice as many jobs in education or healthcare as in the military. Furthermore, military jobs do not result in useful actions. For instance, millions of people are unemployed and homeless while billions of dollars are spent to fuel, tanks, planes, ships, and to recruit and train young men and women, who may die in wars. Trained engineers and scientists are using their knowledge, to created weapons of destructions rather than using it to improve the lives of many. To add on, taxpayers pay to clean up the mess created by our