(10-17-2018, 11:22 AM)robkelk Wrote: Honestly, does the USA really need a military base in every state? You're duplicating a lot of swivel-chair positions that you don't need and sitting on a lot of high-value land that would be better sold to fund land purchases to expand the military bases that you actually do need. A fair chunk of that "military" spending is ideological in nature, not strategic.
The Congresscreatures won't let us close down bases in their states. Whatever state it is, a military base brings in cash for the surrounding communities, so if Senator Bedfellow or Representative Venal voted to close Fort Desolate in the great state of Jerkwater, Jerkwater's "good citizens" would vote Bedfellow and/or Venal out of D.C. in the very next election. Austerity is something to be applied to a state other than wonderful Jerkwater, backbone of the United States. NIMBY, y'know, except in this case it's "not out of my (profitable) back yard."
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"The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that this was some killer weed."