Taylor
Community Leader
- Moderator
- #226
Or, alternatively, we could raise the funding necessary to develop and cultivate our own military by ceasing the obnoxious levels of pork barrelling that goes on when right leaning governments buy votes risking our safety by overly relying on US manpower for our defense. Not to mention the level of corporate welfare that occurs, either...
And it isn't as though they get nothing out of the deal, either, or do placing military bases on Australian soil within reach of China/SE Asia mean nothing?
Can you list some examples please.
$191.8 billion on social security and welfare in the budget. We get the social benefit of that because we don't need to spend that much servicing an armed forces.