Army cuts training as service is short billions of dollars

[Prairie Gates]

7. The military budget is socialism on a large scale

The fact is that capitalism cannot sustain a large modern society, so the government has to collect and redistribute money, in our case funneling it into various useless industries like defense. We pump hundreds of billions of government hand-outs into defense-centric communities every year and pretend that it is not pure socialist government support by convincing ourselves that these useless baubles are needed for "security." It's a lie, of course. Ideologically, we're supposed to "hate" socialism, and, indeed, they seem to hate it more the more they rely on it (military towns, suburbs heavily reliant on military spending, etc.)!