But, thanks to it, we've become highly efficient at losing them and claiming victory.

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense.
Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/23920.Dwight_D_Eisenhower

continues to be diminished by the unchecked spending on all things military. It's almost as if the goal is to destroy it (earth).

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. Dwight D. Eisenhower

It all goes to the fucking profit margins of these incredibly greedy war contractors - Halliburton, KBR, Boeing, Raytheon, you name it. We live in an economy driven by war - we should be locking up and investigating thesr scumbags for war crimes and until we do nothing is going to change. It's truly disgusting that all our social safety nets are crumbling but we can always find $700 billion a year for more war. We truly are run by insane psychopaths.

infrastructure, are sacrificed to feed the MIC and provide egregious tax breaks to the wealthy and wealthy corporations. EOS: if you don't buy my take, then have a good look at Ryan's budget proposals.