Feeding on Peace

Here's a question about our tax money. Why does our government spend ten times the amount that Russia spends on the military? 

We know the answer. The military-industrial complex has become integrated like cancer into our economic system. 

Eisenhower warned us. On average the military-industrial complex increases its federal budget more than 5% each year, war or no war. It provides jobs and profits in every congressional district. The system no longer needs war. It can feed on peace--at the expense of infrastructure, health care and education. We build extra tanks instead.