Massive Increases In Military Spending

     Trump gave a speech in which he talked about spending massive amounts of money on the U.S. military. Throwing more money into an already bloated, badly in need of streamlining and reform bureaucracy does not make it more efficient or better. Likewise, throwing more money at police departments does not make them more efficient or better. Money is not always the answer.
     The United States needs an efficient, strong military. This requires wisdom and thought, not furthering the already enormous debt. How will the massive increases in military spending be paid for? By the plan to lower taxes and thereby take in less revenue?
     The republican party continues to be the party of big government. The only difference between democrats and republicans in regards to both being parties of big government are their priorities as to what parts of government need to be bloated.
     Massive military spending will massively increase debt. It will not make the country safe. It does not translate into a better military. It will not translate into the revitalized economy that Trump promised in which millions of well paying jobs are returned to American soil.
      Military spending will not reduce religious fanaticism and violence, including the violence and terror committed by Islamists. It is necessary to think smart, which includes responding to the schools, madrasas and other places where children and people of all ages continue to be indoctrinated into intolerant, hate filled, violent, supremacist interpretations of Islam promoted by oil rich Islamic nations, most of whom are allies of the United States.
      Even if the United States continues to bankrupt itself by its excessive military and other government spending, and even if the United States develops a conventional army a thousand times stronger than anyone else, this is still the nuclear age. Unless mankind is prepared to exterminate itself, the full scale wars of years past are no longer possible. Stopping nuclear proliferation is far more critical for ensuring the safety of Americans and everyone else than a massive military expansion.
       Most people in the United States and developed world will die from from heart disease or cancer. Many cancers, and even heart disease, are either caused by or exacerbated by environmental conditions, including exposure to toxins, air and water pollution and more. Few are willing to tackle the environmental degradation and threats that are destroying lives, wiping out rainforests and more, wiping out species, and that can potentially destroy most life on this planet.
        People do not mind turning the world into an overpopulated sewer. Already the oceans are assaulted daily by enormous contamination by plastics and a huge assortment of poisons and toxins. The environmental war, the war to save this planet, the one major war that should be fought, is the last thing on people's minds.
        After trillions more are spent on militaries, the world will have nothing to show for it except more debt. The world will be a more impoverished, polluted, and contaminated place. Violence and terror will continue unabated.