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===The military industrial complex bubble===
===The military industrial complex bubble===
You've heard of stock market bubbles and housing bubbles, over-inflated prices reflecting no real value? When the bubble pops, it lets the air out of the bag and prices fall closer their real value. That's what America's $880 billion dollar defense budget reflects: decades and decades of inflated costs not reflecting its real value. The vaunted javelin missile of [[Patriot missile]] systems for example turn out to be nothing but examples of [[shrinkflation]].
You've heard of stock market bubbles and housing bubbles, over-inflated prices reflecting no real value? When the bubble pops, it lets the air out of the bag and prices fall closer their real value. That's what America's $880 billion dollar defense budget reflects: decades and decades of inflated costs not reflecting its real value. The vaunted [[Javelin missile]] or [[Patriot missile]] systems for example, turn out to be nothing but examples of [[shrinkflation]].
Is it possible to recover some of the stolen value and costs in the decades and decades of inflated values appropriated in the [[US government]]'s #1 budget priority? No. Cause that cash was paid in labor and service costs, and it doesn't exist in stockpiles of manufactured goods.
Is it possible to recover some of the stolen value and costs in the decades and decades of inflated values appropriated in the [[US government]]'s #1 budget priority? No. Cause that cash was paid in labor and service costs, and it doesn't exist in stockpiles of manufactured goods.