### Comment:
not to mention the excess defense spending, over half which goes to bloat introduced by excess spending of DoD contractors, subcontractors, and every other leech that wants a piece of the pie.

### REPLY:
Yes, and those contractors are completed by US citizens.  
   
 From a business perspective, it's a terrible strategy. From a government perspective though, those costs are worth it to keep so many US citizens employed. And that's *ignoring* all the soldiers where being in the Military is *literally* their job.

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