2009年 02月 12日
なぜアメリカの国防費は減らないのか |
またウォルト大先生による解説です。
本ブログの最近のコメントにあった、とおるさんの「なぜアメリカは戦争をし続けるのか」という疑問に答えている形になります。
アメリカ人から（しかもリアリストから）こういう具体的な解説が聞けるのはとても楽しいものですね（笑
それでは（巨泉風に）ハイライト部分だけドン。
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Was Ike right about the "military-industrial complex"?
by Stephen M. Walt
（中略）
Here's why it won't happen any time soon. As Cindy Williams, former director of the National Security division of the Congressional Budget Office and now a senior research scientist at MIT, points out in an as-yet unpublished paper for the Tobin Project, DOD is insulated from serious cuts by an array of impressive political advantages.
First, its budget is more than 50 percent of all federal discretionary spending, and its sheer size gives it a lot of bureaucratic clout.
Second, the Pentagon has a large domestic constituency: there are 1.4 million men and women in uniform, 850,000 paid members of the National Guard and Reserve, and 650,000 civilian employees. Forget GM, Ford and Chrysler: the Department of Defense is the largest single employer in the whole country. Now add the companies that provide goods and services for the military. Their employees amount to about 5.2 million jobs, which is a pretty impressive domestic constituency. And don’t forget those 25 million veterans, who are hardly shrinking violets when defense spending is concerned.
Finally, a well-financed group of Beltway bandits and Washington think tanks stand ready to question the patriotism of any politician (and especially any Democrat) who tries to put the Pentagon on a diet.
So don't expect the military to take a serious budget hit anytime soon.
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理由としては、予算がデカすぎて利権が絡み過ぎてる、軍事関係者の選挙民として数の多さ、そして予算削ろうとすると愛国心を責められる、という三つです。
「イスラエル・ロビー」ではなく、「国防ロビー」（軍産複合体）というわけです。
本ブログの最近のコメントにあった、とおるさんの「なぜアメリカは戦争をし続けるのか」という疑問に答えている形になります。
アメリカ人から（しかもリアリストから）こういう具体的な解説が聞けるのはとても楽しいものですね（笑
それでは（巨泉風に）ハイライト部分だけドン。
＝＝＝
Was Ike right about the "military-industrial complex"?
by Stephen M. Walt
（中略）
Here's why it won't happen any time soon. As Cindy Williams, former director of the National Security division of the Congressional Budget Office and now a senior research scientist at MIT, points out in an as-yet unpublished paper for the Tobin Project, DOD is insulated from serious cuts by an array of impressive political advantages.
First, its budget is more than 50 percent of all federal discretionary spending, and its sheer size gives it a lot of bureaucratic clout.
Second, the Pentagon has a large domestic constituency: there are 1.4 million men and women in uniform, 850,000 paid members of the National Guard and Reserve, and 650,000 civilian employees. Forget GM, Ford and Chrysler: the Department of Defense is the largest single employer in the whole country. Now add the companies that provide goods and services for the military. Their employees amount to about 5.2 million jobs, which is a pretty impressive domestic constituency. And don’t forget those 25 million veterans, who are hardly shrinking violets when defense spending is concerned.
Finally, a well-financed group of Beltway bandits and Washington think tanks stand ready to question the patriotism of any politician (and especially any Democrat) who tries to put the Pentagon on a diet.
So don't expect the military to take a serious budget hit anytime soon.
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理由としては、予算がデカすぎて利権が絡み過ぎてる、軍事関係者の選挙民として数の多さ、そして予算削ろうとすると愛国心を責められる、という三つです。
「イスラエル・ロビー」ではなく、「国防ロビー」（軍産複合体）というわけです。
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by masa_the_man
| 2009-02-12 00:30
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