>account for inflation
$143 billion by 2022(this is wikipedia number) >we're spending 2.5% of GDP on defense instead of 45%
How come the percentage is so low now?
I'm so fricking assmad that I pay 12% of my income to health insurance that I don't even have access to, and then my actual health insurance isn't even tax deductible.
Doing new things is hard, it takes work and requires a willingness to admit failures, be humble, and accept that this is part of the improvement process.
Learn from it.
This is why the US has consistently dominated the aerospace field until recently, as our culture begins to dehomogonize with increased foreigners. By design, but not ours.
back then, stuff wasn't just less advanced but also a lot smaller. plus, people back then worked in factories rather than starbucks and pigs didn't demand as much of a markup to pay for yachts or whatever
They couldn't really demand a markup, the government basically just told companies like International Harvester "You WILL make this many M1 garands at this price". Now, the price was always at a profit, but negotiation of contracts was very very much not in the companies' favor. That said there were tons of opportunities to scam off the top of ww2 money. Like in Alaska there was a bunch going to like Reindeer research justified as something something there are reindeer in Europe??
>account for inflation
$143 billion by 2022(this is wikipedia number) >we're spending 2.5% of GDP on defense instead of 45%
How come the percentage is so low now?
>Why so low
Our only real competitor is China at this point. Vietnam we were spending like 11% of the GDP. After the Cold War we really downscaled spending.
Try to understand, WW2 bankrupted everyone except America. the Soviets were on famine footing until the early 50s. The UK was dick broke. France had been absolutely looted by the Nazis. Germany was split and two AND rebuilding. Japan was already rocky going into the war and it just got sad by the end. Even America wasn't in perfect shape, we were rationing into the 50s too, but we walked away real well compared to everyone else involved.
Two world wars basically bankrupted the empires of Europe and ensured that there was room for the USSR and USA to rise in their place. Had WW1 never happened we may be in a world where the Euro empires were still alive
Not that there also weren't contracts and bids even back then. But the rules and stuff for getting a contract were vastly different than today. Much more strong-arm price negotiation and fixing went on then.Even if you came up with some great tool or weapon of war there was a good chance Uncle Sam would pass out that blueprint to other companies to expedite the process of manufacturing, which is why you have Springfield M1s, IH M1s, etc.
WW2 US vehicles were generally lighter and cheaper than German ones
Nowadays US vehicles are some of the thoughest but also heavy and expensive
This can be attributed to most of their modern wars being small scale ''police actions'' rather than WW2 style total war >You don't need to spam vehicles that much; so you can make them better >Shithole insurgencies that keep dragging on don't generate the same popular support as ''stopping Japs and Nazis from taking over the world''; the treshold for ''acceptable losses'' is lower and morale at home is more important (So protecting the crew is more important).
Wasn't there funny accounting where a tank was valued as being a few dollars at times so that however much was made could be delivered regardless of values allocated
Which was 11 billion too much. Lend-Lease was a mistake. The American people allowed themselves to get tricked by Red Hollywood and by Stalin's agents in the Federal government.
US could produce things under budget and on time back then
now account for inflation and the fact that we're spending 2.5% of GDP on defense instead of 45%
I am demoralized
>account for inflation
$143 billion by 2022(this is wikipedia number)
>we're spending 2.5% of GDP on defense instead of 45%
How come the percentage is so low now?
we aren't in a state of total war against Germany, Japan, Italy, Hungary, Slovakia, and Romania genius
Also Finland
Cheeky google says $180 billion in today's money
>How come the percentage is so low now?
Social Security and Medicaid
You mean farming subsidies?
>In 2019, farms received $22.6 billion in government payments,
No?
If farmers actually got that much money they wouldn't be b***hing about getting so little government money.
I'm so fricking assmad that I pay 12% of my income to health insurance that I don't even have access to, and then my actual health insurance isn't even tax deductible.
except the B-29, which barely even worked when it entered service
Doing new things is hard, it takes work and requires a willingness to admit failures, be humble, and accept that this is part of the improvement process.
Learn from it.
This is why the US has consistently dominated the aerospace field until recently, as our culture begins to dehomogonize with increased foreigners. By design, but not ours.
>until recently
Lol no one can touch the US in aeronautics and space flight what are you smoking?
>11 billion
Its like 180 billion. The U.S. spent 4 trillion dollars for the entirety of WW2.
things used to cost less in the past anon
worth 200 billion today
Lend lease should have gone to nazi germany instead
Why would you send aid to somebody who has declared war on you?
Would they have said no? Dont think so
They declared war after lend lease
back then, stuff wasn't just less advanced but also a lot smaller. plus, people back then worked in factories rather than starbucks and pigs didn't demand as much of a markup to pay for yachts or whatever
They couldn't really demand a markup, the government basically just told companies like International Harvester "You WILL make this many M1 garands at this price". Now, the price was always at a profit, but negotiation of contracts was very very much not in the companies' favor. That said there were tons of opportunities to scam off the top of ww2 money. Like in Alaska there was a bunch going to like Reindeer research justified as something something there are reindeer in Europe??
>Why so low
Our only real competitor is China at this point. Vietnam we were spending like 11% of the GDP. After the Cold War we really downscaled spending.
Try to understand, WW2 bankrupted everyone except America. the Soviets were on famine footing until the early 50s. The UK was dick broke. France had been absolutely looted by the Nazis. Germany was split and two AND rebuilding. Japan was already rocky going into the war and it just got sad by the end. Even America wasn't in perfect shape, we were rationing into the 50s too, but we walked away real well compared to everyone else involved.
Two world wars basically bankrupted the empires of Europe and ensured that there was room for the USSR and USA to rise in their place. Had WW1 never happened we may be in a world where the Euro empires were still alive
Not that there also weren't contracts and bids even back then. But the rules and stuff for getting a contract were vastly different than today. Much more strong-arm price negotiation and fixing went on then.Even if you came up with some great tool or weapon of war there was a good chance Uncle Sam would pass out that blueprint to other companies to expedite the process of manufacturing, which is why you have Springfield M1s, IH M1s, etc.
WW2 US vehicles were generally lighter and cheaper than German ones
Nowadays US vehicles are some of the thoughest but also heavy and expensive
This can be attributed to most of their modern wars being small scale ''police actions'' rather than WW2 style total war
>You don't need to spam vehicles that much; so you can make them better
>Shithole insurgencies that keep dragging on don't generate the same popular support as ''stopping Japs and Nazis from taking over the world''; the treshold for ''acceptable losses'' is lower and morale at home is more important (So protecting the crew is more important).
you stupid ass Black person, the M1 Abrams, Bradley and most of their aircraft were developed LONG before the desert wars
They were developed after Vietnam; which already had the same issues with morale.
>asking Euro powers not to wage global war on each other every twenty years
That's equivalent to five Manhattan Projects.
Wasn't there funny accounting where a tank was valued as being a few dollars at times so that however much was made could be delivered regardless of values allocated
Which was 11 billion too much. Lend-Lease was a mistake. The American people allowed themselves to get tricked by Red Hollywood and by Stalin's agents in the Federal government.