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Comment on bro pls

This comment doesn’t even make sense. For example, the USA government spent 37% compared to the GDP.

If you mean 10% of government spending towards science then that question makes sense.

The USA spends about $75billion of the $800billion defense budget on R&D. It spends another $120billion on non-defense R&D.

Which is about 1/31 of federal spending for the US.

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Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Thanks for the correction. I never knew what word to use and used GDP because that’s the closest thing to what I mean. Thanks again !

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- HubertManne@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Honestly I thought your original comment was refering to basic science so the 10% would be huge.
  
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Zehzin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Would be neat if they found a way to only spend like 200 billion a year (the GDP of Hungary) on the people grinder.

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- TyrionsNose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  But we spend nearly $200 billion just paying salaries. We spend the most because we are also an expensive country to live in and that means paying the folks who volunteer a decent wage.
  
  We would have to significantly downsize the military personnel and pretty much operate as homeland defense only.
  
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  - Zehzin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    That sounds great
    
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- frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I don’t think even a purely defensive military could be that small for the US. We have a lot of coastline on two oceans, plus distant holdings in Alaska and Hawaii. Even discharging Guam and the like would still be a lot of ground and ocean to cover.
  
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  - Zehzin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    My googling says the US spent 185b on the DHS last year and has 100b for FY2024, which includes the stupid mexico wall. I’m sure there would be more things to deal with not included in that and it would take time to transition, but any reduction is a positive gain.
    
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