U.S. Government shuts down.

[kandrathe]

Almost 20% of spending is defense. It's close to $700B/year now. I personally think that's outrageous.

In national terms it is outrageously expensive for the US. The Gross World Product is $85 trillion. If we are the world's police, it's < 1%. But, we'd need to add up all the other military spending too. Which is closer to $2 trillion.



My concern is that the US police forces are not wanted where they are deployed, somewhat thuggish, and generally coercive trying to manipulate things OUR way.