Reduced Defense Spending Will Enable Better Healthcare, Education and Infrastructure
This opinion piece in the New York Times suggests that the U.S. defense budget can be cut aggressively without endangering the nation.
As if this is something we didn’t already know? The Department of Defense employs more than 200,000–in property management alone. Does anyone think that this is anything other than bloat?
When he left office in 1961, Eisenhower warned us of the dangers of what he dubbed the “military-industrial complex,” i.e., that corruption would rapidly achieve a stranglehold from which good sense and reason would be unable to break.
Of course, the phenomenon was present long before Ike gave it its name. Here’s a cartoon that was published 80 years ago. 
I wonder, was The Marshall Plan a more cost effective way of defending the interests of the USA than an equivalent sum would have been if used for military spending?
Perhaps naively, I would have said that the Marshall Plan was an attempt to rebuild Europe for the good of world stability.