Grayson on Crazy Military Spending In The U.S. - The Point

[doctender77]

Grayson makes such a good point... But I disagree. Our entire economy is based on destruction and resource extraction. There is nothing that does more of both than war. We don't need to just stop so much military spending. We need a whole new economic model.

[BrooklynJEW7]

Sorry Mr. Grayson..that is too smart of an idea to ever get passed into legislature. Anything brilliant does not ever happen in reality. Sad but true.

[underdescribed]

This show is awesome, but only because the writing is good. If the writing goes to crap, the show will go to pure crap.

[JohnSmith88823]

anyone sick of the stupid beatboxing ad?

[maipai101]

@JohnSmith88823 AdBlock for Firefox!

[spoolgenobsquarenuts]

Create 5 million jobs doing what? Filling pot holes? How long has the highways in your state been under "construction?" The Defense Department's $680 billion budget pays for over 6.1 million employees, military and civilian along with defense contractors. Let's put 6.1 million highly educated ppl out of work to give 5 million jobs doing what? Maybe we can build another creationist museum like the one in Kentucky. My tax dollars indirectly paid for that.

[TheRealJLP]

Peace sells, but who's buying? Megadeth getting it right.

[UlrichRuler13]

@TheRealJLP

I love this comment.

[Sahluful]

Brians' point about two wars being fought at once was brilliant.

I'm actually still recovering from how quickly that we left Iraq. It still feels like we're in it, and we are, but as mercenaries and defense contractors.

[orchoose]

i bet we wont see that girl again:D

[joi12345678]

He said "Unless were being Invaded from MARS." lmao!

[ramonlazotrio]

i like this shit. thank you.

[luvbotany]

When the Dem's spend on schools and social justice, its pork barrel. When the GOP spends money on bombs and war, its much needed national defense and jobs.

[MajorCoffey]

Why do you have to spend the money?! I thought you people were in debt...

[Hippieinthewoods]

Great point at the end about how we are gonna pay for it.

[sorin7486]

great show.. maybe put some opposing opinions in there though?

[TOTCD]

'We spend as much as the other part of the world combined.'

Well it's only 4.7% of GDP.

Even if you lower it to 4% of GDP.

It's going to be a large number.

Now tell me TYT? How much do we need to spend on defence.

As percentage of GDP?

[Lobos222]

@TOTCD

There are lots of things that could be done with the military to make it more efficient. In a time of economical crises there should also be room for limiting the cost because its actually more about countering the threats that are out there than GDP % usage.

Being the richest nation in the world gives the USA the luxury of using less GDP % to reach the same goal vs other huge nations like China. On the flip side, China has a larger army and still spends allot less. Go figure...

[TOTCD]

@Lobos222 Okay you make a couple of fair points.

There are indeed more things to be done to make the military more efficient.

I think we shouldn't just give contracts to give them but make the nation safer.

The US spends more on the military than in the 90's because of the longer wars.

China's large military is not nearly as effective as the US.

They are two decades behind in technology.

A large army is nothing, N Korea has a large army.

It doesn't guarantee victory.

[dagrimmreepa]

Next week on Fox News: Secret Mars Invasion of Earth!! GOP striving to raise defense budget, socialist liberals refuse to stand up for your safety!

[ibstrd]

One of them should be president.

[MarsManatee]

Ben Mankiewicz's point about Keystone XL spending vs other infrastructure spending was brilliant.

[jianson870621]

North Korea is a "military first" government.

Look at USA. Look at NK. Look at USA again. Look at NK again.

USA war in middle east.

Look at USA. Look at NK.

USA war in pacific.

Look at USA...Look at NK...

Hypocrites, oh man..

USA has hope still. Please! Engage in some positive actions for the world.

[Gr4yW0rld]

I love the point

[whoo689]

Can someone tell me HOW it costs $66 BILLION to make a single fucking PLANE? I mean, REALLY? What kind of super-expensive materials are they USING??! SURELY, they could be using a much cheaper but still-effective material... right? Come on... Fucking overcharging defense contractors

[OpaBennett]

@whoo689 The cost isn't so much the materials, as it is the strict tolerances the government places in the contractors. An example would be the normal toilet works fine with a 2" drain fitting, the government places a +or- tolerance of .0005 on the size of the hole and now companies have to add quality assurance inspectors and equipment to meet that tolerance. If it's found that the hole is 2.0010 the toilet is no good. That's where these outrageous prices come in.

[trier4952]

Shira has a point...the top countries in the world are Iceland and Switzerland when it comes to things like education and healthcare.

[NikEgUy101]

This is definitely one of the better new channels of TYT.

[NeilCrouse]

@NikEgUy101 Well said :)

[Lobos222]

@NikEgUy101

Agree, but they need a "devils advocate" in some of the debates.

A circle jerk isnt really a debate.

[jrpone]

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