(02-01-2017, 03:05 AM)Occhidiangela Wrote: By the way, eppie, you betray ignorance on military sales. It isn't the bombs, it's the weapons systems (planes/tanks/ships) and the follow on support contracts, where the MONEY is. If you are going to chime in, try to know what you're talking about.
You say this because it was important for the discussion or because you like to show you know about defence spendings.
Anyway, my apologies. But to be fair, if I was a defence industry I would try and make my money on the consumables as many other companies do.
It is by the way a good point: I think your government ships a lot of tax payers money to the weapons industry (and some other rich people), by starting a war such as in Iraq. I don't think it is a complot theory to think these interest play a big role in making such decissions.