Hey I'm going to stop the silliness here for a moment because I got something to "bitch" about (not really, but more of a... well... its something.)
Has anyone read the US's Department of Defense's website about what they do? (
http://www.defense.gov/about/dod101.aspx) I'm having to read it over my spring break because I'm lazy and far back enough to have some makeup work in what is possibly my best subject (history/government) all due to me slacking off for the past several weeks.
Well there's something about the whole "what we do" that just seems
off to me. I know the US is a very military-focused nation, I mean our military is the biggest in the world. But what "scares" me the most is how they described and compared themselves to
companies and not
other nation's defense departments or some variant, is it just me it is that really weird to compare something that employees and oversees military actions to something like fucking WalMart?
I mean read this quote from the site:
In terms of people and operations, we’re busier than just about all of the nation’s largest private sector companies.
The Department of Defense has a budget of four hundred nineteen point three billion dollars and more than three million employees; Wal-Mart has a budget of about two hundred twenty-seven billion dollars and employs about one-point-three million people; Exxon-Mobil has a budget of two hundred billion dollars and employs almost ninety-eight thousand; the GM company budget equals one hundred eighty-one billion dollars, it has a workforce of three-hundred sixty-five thousand people; and Ford has a budget of one-hundred sixty billion dollars, and employs three-hundred fifty-four thousand, four hundred people.
EDIT: missed some words and grammatical errors because I'm rushing this out