# Your hard earned tax dollars will be spent at a rate of 1.4 mil per hour.

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**Author:** ![silverandslow1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@silverandslow1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/silverandslow1)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 3:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/your-hard-earned-tax-dollars-will-be-spent-at-a-rate-of-1-4-mil-per-hour/267206/47 "2013-06-24T15:09:53Z")

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> [@LS1 Guys need an opinion on cams](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ls1-guys-need-an-opinion-on-cams/53024/7):
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> So your argument is that dollar figures of spending mean… nothing? Incredible.
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> Why do we need to upgrade? Who else has such advance Air Force? When was the last dog fight? Forgetting that drones are doing an incredible job of bombing?
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> We don’t need to have the most advance fighter on the planet because nobody will ever get into an Air to Air battle with us. And IF even IF the other side and is somehow superior, and wins an air battle somewhere, somehow… it’s not like we aren’t leading in every other part of military technology and have the forces to back it up on the ground and sea.
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> I guess I don’t understand your proposal. We got rid of cavalry didn’t we? Or would have rather sank billions of dollars into making super horses to make sure we are the leader of the cavalry division and no other country surpasses us in the horse technology?
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> When there is nobody in the world that would dare to take us on outright in direct combat a new disastrous issue plagued plane isn’t going to scare them anymore.

Where did I say it meant nothing? Let me re-explain because you have problems reading and absorbing information.

I said yes we overspend on the military because of corruption and waste spending. But we need to upgrade until a time comes that waste is dealt with.

You said that’s wrong because we spend more? Which doesn’t add to any argument against what I said but I’ll address it because its funny when you say silly shit.

I’ve already explained that I think the majority of our spending is waste and corruption that is drastically increasing required budgets to continue upgrading at the rate we are. I also stated that I don’t believe were light years ahead of say Russia in Technology but we do drastically outspend them. So, if the corruption and waste remains the same, and we lower the budget we lose all the money to upgrade our military causing us to fall behind other countries. However, if we deal with corruption and waste THEN we can lower the budget and still have the same or better product.

Why do we need to upgrade? Because if we don’t others will. Your comment that you don’t care if other countries have better air weapons is absurd. Air superiority is pretty important, especially in a battle against a well equipped modern power. Can you imagine if we didn’t have an air force to stop Russia if it wanted to bomb the USA? Or China?

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