The 5 Deadly Myths of Defense Spending

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🗓️ 18 January 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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This week, Lieutenant General Thomas Spoehr, debunks some of the most timeworn arguments about defense spending that are used in an attempt to slash the Pentagon's budget.Show Notes: Peterson Foundation chart vs. https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0053_defense-comparisonHeritage Foundation (see chart 3)https://www.heritage.org/defense/report/putting-defense-spending-context-simple-comparisons-are-inadequate

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0:00.0	From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Michelle Cordero, and this is Heritage Explains.
0:32.9	How much the United States spends on its military is always a sticking point in Congress.
0:39.8	A vibrant and heated debate on the House and Senate floor and in the media around this topic is a sure thing.
0:42.3	And unfortunately, every time we have these debates, the same time-worn arguments are trotted
0:48.8	out in an attempt to slash the Pentagon's budget.
0:52.3	Let me tell you something.
0:54.5	The United States of America is the most powerful nation on Earth, period.
1:02.4	Period.
1:04.6	It's not even close.
1:08.7	It's not even close.
1:17.6	Thank you. It's not even close. It's not even close.
1:20.3	We spend more on our military than the next eight nations combined.
1:26.0	Do we have to spend more money on the fence than the next 10 countries combined when children
1:33.1	in America go hungry, when veterans sleep out on the street, when we are the only major
1:38.7	country that does not guarantee health care to all people?
1:42.0	I say no.
1:43.5	According to the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, the United States already spends more on
1:48.1	defense than Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, India, France, United Kingdom, and Japan combined.
1:57.3	News broke this week that the Pentagon had apparently suppressed a report that indicated that
2:02.1	it had wasted at least $125 billion.
2:07.5	And that might be a conservative estimate.
2:09.4	And the Fox 17 waste watch tonight, the Pentagon spends billions of your tax dollars
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