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Or, Eor's been filling me up with his research, and now I feel a need to keep track of it.
According to Wiki (which of course is somewhat suspect, but has sources) the United States has as many aircraft carriers as all other in-service aircraft carriers in the world. In the world! We have 11 in service. (Japan has 20 decommissioned - I imagine it would take a while to get those hulks back in working order.)
We spend almost as much just to operate just ONE of those aircraft carriers as we do to fund Public Broadcasting for one year. Only to operate that one big boat, that doesn't include if you wanted to figure in the cost of buying one.
We spend around $2,000 per year per capita on the military. Per capita means all those little kids who don't have jobs, too, not just working taxpayers. The United Arab Emirates spend more, but they have far fewer people, so we end up accounting for 41% of the world's military spending - more than the next fourteen countries combined.
Do we intend to take on the rest of the world?
According to Wiki (which of course is somewhat suspect, but has sources) the United States has as many aircraft carriers as all other in-service aircraft carriers in the world. In the world! We have 11 in service. (Japan has 20 decommissioned - I imagine it would take a while to get those hulks back in working order.)
We spend almost as much just to operate just ONE of those aircraft carriers as we do to fund Public Broadcasting for one year. Only to operate that one big boat, that doesn't include if you wanted to figure in the cost of buying one.
We spend around $2,000 per year per capita on the military. Per capita means all those little kids who don't have jobs, too, not just working taxpayers. The United Arab Emirates spend more, but they have far fewer people, so we end up accounting for 41% of the world's military spending - more than the next fourteen countries combined.
Do we intend to take on the rest of the world?
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