Hello Johnny. Long time subscriber here. I've written a few comments about the military industrial complex in the past and they systematically get erased. Any idea why?
This is a good video. There are a few points you missed, though. Firstly, lots of the flaws in government procurement come from the relative lack of experience or skill of the government civil servants. This is due to the fact that the best ones will routinely get hired by the private sector for significantly higher salaries. This leaves the government without the technical expertise to properly write technical specifications for contracts. Or the ability to hold the private sector to account.
Johnny, please help the movement. It's time to stop electing the rich and well connected and START electing working class Americans. But we cannot do it alone.
@@Jay-vt1mwthis is just bullshit. I'm center-left and I can't even find a leftist angle here. it's just horribly bad "journalism" not based on facts.
Disappointed? He does this on every video. He is part of the leftist media machine…you know “America is inherently evil and we have to atone for our past sins from 163 years ago”. You know that machine? The one forcing DEI on us? The one who has “transitioned” our public schools from teaching reading and mathematics to gender equality and white man bad…like that will help our kids when they adults
@@94fishhead The more I watched Johnny's video, the more delusional the narrative went. 👎 The volume of slimy, opinion-based, biased misrepresentation Johnny uses... It rivals the worst of the worst.
Are you implying that someone who works in the defense industry is part of the military industrial complex? I would trust Ryan over Johnny H. If Ryan made an error he would admit it if called out. He has done so.
The more I watched Johnny's video, the more delusional the narrative went. 👎 The volume of slimy, opinion-based, biased misrepresentation Johnny uses... It rivals the worst of the worst. Thank you, Ryan McBeth, for doing actual competent investigative journalism. 🏆❤
@@HaxhijajHaxhijaj thats hilarious lol. You actually believe its cheaper to create a govt enforced monopoly? Which is precisely what govt owned business are.
I don't know man, I just watched the other guy's video after reading comments, he also skipped a lot of data, like Boeing selling parts to the US Army for 3.5k dollars which is available for 15$ with tax. Also his proofs are as strong as Johnny's proof. Saying that META/Google/Amazon gives better returns in stock market doesn't mean that Politicians don't invest money in defence companies, in fact in a seperate YT channel's video (in 2016 ig) they showed which politician invests how much money in Defence, Pharmaceutical and Gun Companies. Though I agree that Johnny should have talked with someone from the military to get perspective from both sides.
I watched the whole of Johnny's video. ^^ The more I watched, the more delusional his narrative went. 👎 The volume of slimy, opinion-based, biased misrepresentation Johnny uses... It rivals the worst of the worst. Thank you, Ryan McBeth, for doing actual competent investigative journalism. 🏆❤
Watched it before and it seems a little off, then watched Ryan. This dude has no idea what he is talking about. RUclipsr influeencer dude stay withing your topic, make some socks or something. God I hate those RUclips personas.
@@jesterguinanao5929 That's 40% of 31%. 69% goes to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and interest on a giant national debt. And that's federal spending which is about 22% of GDP. Suddenly that"40" becomes "2.7".
Nailed it, in other countries insider trading is also illegal for politicians. We do it, we go to Martha Stewart prison, if they do it, they get filthy stinking rich.
@@CamiloSanchez1979as opposed to Pfizer Bayer J&J Merck and Eli Lilly who would do the same but already account for an inflationary huge amount of cash? Government spending just isn't the solution to either of these problems. Europhiles ignore the deficit spending in those countries, and only see a single image in time, not the direction they're going (pop collapse and overregulation decoupling innovation causing them to use countries that enslave their people for supplies). Warphiles just want to rule the globe and don't mind sacrificing well being of normal people to do it. Taxing and inflating the cash away. I dont want either but no one want to work with me because I wont give them their pretty shiny bauble, so instead we get war and endless spending into the moneypit
The military budget wouldn't last a year funding healthcare. Medicare and Medicare budget alone are 1.7 Trillion dollars. The majority of our federal spending (around 58%) is benefit programs.
In some sense (aka irony and sarcasm) I have to say North Korea has been the most fashionable in this trend for so long, sadly the rest of the world has just seen its brilliance.
What do you mean? There's one standing in Tokyo right now. There has been one for a long time........ .... ohhh, you mean you actually want a working one? Yeah, good luck there!
When I served, I was told at the end of every fiscal year, every unit has to use all of their money, because if they don't then the next year, they will lose their budget.
Rocket money isn’t a trading app though like robinhood or that so it’s not like you can’t invest in these military companies via rocket money unless you use rocket money to deposit to somewhere you can invest in military companies like royals Royce Lockheed etc etc
The fact that the us government can find out if you owe 1 dollar in taxes but fail to ensure efficient spending is out of this world worsened by the fact that since 9/11 they've had no reason to engage in any warfare thats 13 yrs of $800B unnecessary spendings
200 billion just went missing in aid for Ukraine 😂. It happend at the same times Hawaii had those fires, and it would have cost 200 billion to recover. But no it just dissapears into thin air.
@@MRblazedBEANS hey you cant talk bad about the Ukraine war.. literally people are getting banned from there for going there and asking Ukrainians where does the money go
Our Founding Fathers have instituted things in the US Constitution to fight against this, why don't we enact these? George Washington would be extremely upset with how we have let the government become. Because George Washington fought against exactly what our government has become.
Did you even do any research before making this video ? You should have just named this video Misinformation of why the U.S military spends so much money.
Johnny, please watch Ryan McBeth's video addressing misinformation in your own video. I know you appreciate getting to the truth on things and there's a lot of very good rebuttals you should look at as a high priority. Really want to support you but can't if you don't have an answer to his criticisms.
Last time he was called out by Tom Nicholas, Johnny feinted a response of gratitude, but then double down by completely ignoring questions about how he received the false information in the first place. the probable context was that he was likely hired to crate the propaganda peace as opposed to it being his own interest in doing the research in the topic.
I used to work on jets in the Marine Corps. Every time the jets went out flying, they'd come back with several screws missing. It's not uncommon to have to replace 15 screws after every flight. What blew my mind was seeing how much each screw cost the Marine Corps. $55 dollars PER SCREW. $55 for a screw that you could get a whole box of from your local hardware store. THATS why the DoD spends an insane amount of money.
Its because they are "custom" parts made exclusively by contractors, the parts monopoly is actually crazy but with new additive construction methods like 3d printing all we need is material + a CAD model and a machine to print the part which reduces costs so much. Right now to create that part or to make improvements to a mass produced part you have to update a whole production line which lets say is time and money consuming or you just make it individually by hand at a small rate to save costs. If procurement contracts that force the US to buy parts from contractors change the price will likely go down as well.
I work in the defense industry. Primarily im a machinist making critical components for F35's B2's F22's and all sortsa other aircraft. Let me shed some light on the reason that screw costs $55 and why you CANT just get em at walmart. Those screws are precisely machined one at a time by my friends on lathe side, im a 5 axis mill guy but those screws are machined withen sets of tolerance to try to prevent them from flying off. I know those 15 flying off seem like alot but trust me itd be more if you used just random screws with no cares for tolerance. Those tolerances exist to accomadate for the rapid heating and cooling of an aircrafts surface. Albeit therell always be some that fly off thats why each hour of flight requirs X so many hours of maintenance. Running and maintaining a fighter jet fleet is expensive even more so when its the most advanced fighter jet fleet to ever exist. Its something alot of upcoming or 3rd world countries trying to operate fighter jets at least good ones cant seem to get. They dont have the advanced precision machining industry america has to just churn out spare parts that are ALL withen tolerance and can fit on any aircraft no problem that level if interchangibility and quality at that massive level is inconcievably expensive so it makes sense those screws cost that much not to mention the cost of the screw helps keep me in work
This video has good intentions, but doesn't provide context for the spending. One example of this is the Stinger Missile. The reason why we pay so much for it now is that we haven't ordered them for over 20 years, meaning that the factories and workers that made them are usually retired. It takes time for the efficiency to ramp up, and eventually the missile will be a lot cheaper once mass produced. Additionally, they upgraded the Stinger because the old parts were not manufactured anymore, making it more expensive. The crews that operate them train in VR, which means that they don't use the actual missiles to train like suggested.
It dropped and basically shows once again what most people know by now: Johnny Harris only has surface level knowledge of most things and thus produces poorly researched videos that at best are misinformation, at worst outright lies.
@@Benzi514 The issue is that Johnny Harris uses logical fallacies in most of his videos, at this point he is speaking more like a politician or populist than an investigative journalist.
Correction at 10:06. The "world wide web" was not developed by the US military, but at CERN by Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist. The ARPANET, which is the precursor to the internet was developed by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the US Department of Defense.
He did say "started in part". TBL's software concepts needed the hardware infrastructure of ARPANET. In fact reverse DNS still uses .in-addr.arpa as the domain.
Funny how the Pentagon is in the thumbnail since they failed 5 audits and can't account for like $4 trillion dollars. That's more money than the amount the military spent since 2020.
No, the problem is not that it's so large. It's that a lot of these organizations that branch off of it are dark. They don't want anybody to know what they're spending the money on, but you can bet it's anti-American. And pro elite corporations, and their elitist.
"Spending" on military is the best way to launder money. Lawmakers get their pocket money, arms manufacturers get their steady profit from tax payers. It's really just business. I hope they can cut the part where they pretend they really care about national security and all of that.
Bro, it's the invisible hand of this system that keeps everything working. If you think that all what works exists because it's honest, I have a rude awakening for you
It infuriates me that anything that has to do with money such as filing a TDY voucher, we as Service Members are under a magnifying glass having to justify every little expense to "prevent fraud, waste, and abuse" while the real fraud, waste, and abuse comes from the contractors.
Those sound a lot like the words of someone else who has had to pay $73 for misplacing an "onyx felt tip permanent marking device" aka, a sharpie that they were issued at some point but failed to turn in before being discharged 😂
That's because corruption on the top can be accounted for. Since the number is so large, they can still see how effective the military actually is with those corruption. For example, if you know 20% of your budget is taken away by greedy defense contractor, you can re adjust your military thinking. However, if the bottom soldiers corrupt, you are very screwed. Pulling away copper from T-72 is hard to track, and the corruption are just insane, losing millions dollars of equipment for thousands of dollars of corruption. That's why the bottom soldier need to do so much accountability. They are the one with power to cripple a military
The propaganda is strong. First off in the us we spend wayyyy more on social security then the military and wayyyyyy more on midecare. We spend 200 billion more on education its just taxed locally so left pocket instead of right. Brah cmon man johnny
You say that like that's not on-par with most highly developed countries. Being #13 in the EU or Asia would be a feat, being 13 in the world is still amazing.
Just a fun fact about the stinger missile and why it is so expensive now compared to 1991. Its because they stopped producing them in 2003 and now when the DoD put up contract so Raytheon had to recall retired workers to show how it was done 20 year earlier and completely redesign the missile, because many of the components are not produced anymore. Edit: Spelling
that.... does not even come close to explaining how it is 16 times the cost... And if it did somehow explain it, then the obvious question is why are we still using these? Somewhere in here is corruption 100%
@@yomommashaus I think why are we still using these, might be best answered with the question, why did we stop. We stopped because the cold war ended around 10 years before, and the current people the US was fighting didn't have aircraft. Stingers are specifically an anti-air weapon, and a waste of money on anything else. The US didn't see a fight with a country that had an air-force on the horizon. We only just put in the order for them as a response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Not to say that the monopoly doesn't add to the price, but in this case it's probably one of the most extreme price increases.
I was an Aviation Logistics Specialist in the US Navy from 2008-2012. I oversaw all the aircraft parts that USMC and Navy squadrons were using on my base. Simple Boxes with a few wires and a switch cost $127,000.00 ... Not to mention $70 screws and nuts. It's absolutely unbelievable the amount of waste these big companies and politicians in their pockets do to destroy our country.
That's the most depressing part of this video. Even I want to become a defense contractor but I wouldn't Overcharge The American government. "Simple Boxes with a few wires and a switch cost $127,000.00" is wild.
@@BLACKAAROW They had hearings about it in the 90's. Million dollar tarps, 10,000 dollar toilet seats... I guess they increased the kickbacks for politicians because the hearings stopped and nothing was done about it. I haven't it heard it mentioned publicly again for almost 25 years now
What really pisses me off as a combat wounded Airborne veteran, is why some of this graft isn't put into the Veterans Administration? Too often, when I need a service, I have to wait months to get into a community care facility, while I'm getting sicker and sicker!! I have prostate cancer from Agent Orange, severe PTSD and a whole list of other related ailments. I'm 75 now and my heart is causing me many problems but try as he may, my cardiologist can't get approval to work on my heart!! WTF?? I could rant on for hours about this shit! And NEVER would I have to lie and blame any of it on "bone spurs"!
You served your purpose. Why would they spend money on something used and broken when they can spend the same or less on something brand new and ignorant? When the economy gets so bad and the military is the largest employer everyone will be lining up to " serve their country" just so they can eat.
While I was in the military, a few of us were once tasked to take “old furniture” to the military disposal area which was basically 2 HUUUGE domed buildings that had very very nice furniture, electronics, and computers. I was so upset to see how much we were throwing away when that stuff could have been donated to schools or low income homes. So devestating.
Was it actually being thrown out, or was it being surplused? If it's in a usable/sellable state, most likely, it would have been auctioned off via a site like GSA Auctions, for example. I've seen UH-60s auctioned off, so furniture shouldn't be a problem.
" I was so upset to see how much we were throwing away when that stuff could have been donated to schools or low income homes." They're usually auctioned off, or left for the Taliban to use.
I wish the money would go into the pockets of sailors, soldiers, airmen, and Marines. There are so many disabled veterans who can’t get quality healthcare, homeless vets with PTSD, and lower enlisted personnel sleeping in moldy barracks or without AC in 100+ degree temperatures. Some are facing pay problems and haven’t been paid for months. It’s unacceptable.
Actually VA healthcare is really good. It's an outdated myth that VA is a shambles, mostly created by anachronistic scenes in movies whose scriptwriters are ignorant of the facts. Not being paid for months also sounds grossly unrealistic, given the payroll software is connected to the internet nowadays, but pay INCREASES can take 60 days to get through sometimes, it's possible. (I briefly worked in payroll while training as an accountant.) Regarding the rest of it, that's just basic cost-cutting. How are the CEOs of contractor firms like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin gonna make their millions if you start making the staff comfortable? That's crazy talk.
idk where you got your info from, but disabled veterans /that have spoken to the department of the VA/ (Including the homeless vets you also reference) get free healthcare for life as well as a monthly tax-free disability payment that exceeds $4,000. This is also not included in the defense budget, it is its own department with it's own spending. The second thing you listed is indeed an issue, rundown buildings and such. and pay problems are common but you will always get backpay and *usually* if you arent getting paid its your fault.
@@andrewjohnson3940I don’t know, but the veterans I know who are rated 100% definitely aren’t getting over $4,000. The free healthcare is okay at best; when you go to the VA, you often end up misdiagnosed because the doctors are so overloaded that they just want to get you in and out. Many are still in pain, and I wouldn’t necessarily blame the doctors. A lot of sailors, marines, and soldiers are just following orders, but sometimes personal issues, like lost paperwork, prevent them from getting paid. I also haven’t mentioned the problem of overpayments, which can leave people in debt to the government.
@@andrewjohnson3940 from what I've gathered, talking to online friends in America, there are a lot of hurdles to get those benefits. Nearly endless paperwork, which can be impossible for some of them to fill out, especially the ones with PTSD. If all the veterans have done, since leaving high school, is in the military they may be lacking the skills the rest of society has, because everything it provided for them in a very regimented way. The best depiction, I've seen, was in _The Hurt Locker_ when _Jeremy Renner's_ character is back home and goes shopping for his wife. He's shown staring at this massive isle of breakfast cereal and being overwhelmed by the choices. It may have been portrayed in other shows, I don't watch that many, but other than reading books that's the scene which stuck in my mind about it.
You know what's crazy? That $916B is just 3.4% of the US GDP. There are 15 or so countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Morocco, Singapore, Armenia, Pakistan and Cambodia that spends more on defense GDP percentage-wise than the US. Just goes to show how large the economy truly is.
The crazy thing is the US government has been able to convinced it's citizens that it's perfectly acceptable to spend this much money on its military/weapons while not having a public health service and having it's own citizens die or go bankrupt when they get sick.
We spend 6% of our money on the military. We spend 60% on Medicare and Social Security and other social programs. So ten times what we spend on the military goes to the demographic that you say isn't getting enough. If you want to look for waste and abuse you need to start there.
I’m going to have to disagree. You’re not accounting for how immensely wealthy the US is. We spend this much, and yet it’s STILL only like one sixth of what we spend on resident social programs. Almost all science research falls under this budget for example look at GPS, what we all use daily. We’ve put more than entire foreign countries GDPs into GPS and its upkeep which keeps planes flying accurately and makes modern life possible. Thats just one example!
I think some Americans like you fail to understand that the U.S. is already one of the wealthiest countries in the world, and that is due to its strong military and diplomatic power. However, from an external perspective, America's military strength is relatively declining, which means its global influence is waning. And if the U.S.'s global influence decreases, it will gradually become poorer. Public healthcare policies, too, ultimately depend on having the money to support them. Before complaining from a narrow perspective, carefully assess the global trends and consider what path will truly benefit the U.S.
US military service is the same as war & fighting anywhere - rich man’s sport, played by the poor. But worse because the scale of destruction of US foreign policy. Such a service should not be ‘thanked’
@@danielkim672 it's a job, a low paying government job with benefits. The vast majority of the people who join the us military do so for selfish reasons. Furthermore, the never-ending barrage of hollywood, military, and political propaganda also causes people to join the US military. It's called indoctrination (i.e., the manufactured sense of patriotic duty that's hammered into the heads of most Americans). They're fed glorious lies about protecting freedom and the constitution when, in reality, their main job is to protect international business interests, plus expanding US hegemony all the while exacerbating the bloated military industrial complex
@@eaw6590 I'd beg to differ on the selfish part a bit. Unless you ever served you don't know what motivates someone to join. Plus the reason to stay can be different than when a person joins.
In the UK we have a concept that Military + Healthcare = X where X is constant. For the first time since WW2 the total of these two is increasing (rather than military decreasing and healthcare increasing)
The UK military is in a catastrophic state at the moment with it's constant budget cuts over the past 20 years, it would quite literally not be able to defend itself if they went to war right now. It's a pretty sever issue
Whenever I watch documentaries about issues in the U.S., there are a few topics that come up again and again: student loans, high medical costs, and homelessness. It makes me wonder-if just a portion of the military budget was allocated to these areas, could things like education and healthcare become more affordable, or even free?
They could absolutely fund and end all those issues you mention and the US would STILL be the top spender in the world on its military budget. This is how ridiculously bloated their spending is.
@@egdapo except you forget that the main reason why everything costs so much is because people get paid to make it, unlike in the countries that consider themselves your opponents. Russia can make way more with a billion dollars than you cuz they don't need to pay as high a wages
Your idea has been long debated. The short answer is simply throwing money at something doesn’t make it better. The long answer is that resources are limited and you have to allocate them depending on your priority: if you want the best teachers you’ll have to pull people who would otherwise be in finance/medicine/law and instead have them be teachers.
Except that us spends a lot more per capita on Healthcare and education than any other country in the world. Only that it's not used to make it free. The problem is never about money
They could fund all of it just by eliminating waste, fraud and over charging by contractors. They wouldn't even have to touch the other parts of the budget
Hey Johnny, a few things seemed off in this video. There’s no U.S. military base in Finland, so those red dots are a bit misleading. Also, NATO countries actually fund their own bases-it’s a common misconception that the U.S. covers those costs for everyone. Its also interesting that Finland’s F-35s, for example, were bought independently at around $74 million each, even before NATO membership. It’s surprising to hear the U.S. might be paying almost double that price; could it be that their cost includes additional support or upgrades beyond just the planes? Also, comparing military equipment prices from 1991 to now doesn’t quite fit, since technology has advanced so much, and costs have risen across the board. As more countries buy these advanced jets, prices go up simply due to demand, and because few companies can match the quality of U.S. military tech. Outside of the missile and airplane industries, we’re also seeing more new companies step into areas like drones, where there’s less of a monopoly. This video felt a bit off-target with some of the info. I would tag this video as fake news or misleading info.
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Have a couple of friends who graduated with electrical engineering degrees and thats exactly what happened. Cant even be mad at them, I respect it. Its the same thing for me, im in tech and joined a financial hedge fund company due to the money despite me knowing the industry is also immoral.
The jobs at the defense contractors are extremely hard to get. They get thousands of applications per position and only hire the top 1% engineers who had a 3.8+ GPA and multiple internships in college. They aren't begging for people.
@@DeathsOnTheYAxisI don't think you understand. He's saying people come out of college saying they won't join defense contractors because of morals. Then they do because they pay so much, especially out of college.
Half of our *discretionary* spending goes towards the military, not half of the total budget. Your graphic was correct but the way you said it is very misleading. The total we spend on our military is 13% when taking into account the total budget, not half.
Totally agreed, and without explaining how significant different that is, is concerning. I appreciate @JohnnyHarris videos but this oversight made me lose faith in the video overall.
Making such a glaring mistake 30s into the video into your very first opening points is unacceptable. Harris is good at making videos, not educating people.
If you take the Blue or Yellow line on the metro, you will notice that the pentagon station only has advertisements for military manufacturers meant for a handful of requisition officers.
Johnny my boy, you have been Ryan McBathed. The guy that if he feels like it can find out where you live and show you the cost of a hell fire missile. 😂
media is great at keeping the majority distracted and afraid. Cant think of more than 3 people that would really change the military complex ( rfk jr, jill stein, cornell west )
Johnny I saw you at IAD on 10/3 on my way to Doha! Thank you for all of your content! I always recommend you to my friends and family! Great video once again
@@FlyLowRaelough damn bro, you only caught a glimpse, I am deeply inspired by johnny but unfortunately I don't live in the US. If it wasn't for the internet, I would honestly just be a layman.
The USA's military budget may seem massive but there are many factors where the US is losing capability due to high costs. US labor is expensive people forget that roughly one-quarter of the Department of Defense's budget is for military personnel, The US over pays for many weapons for example a stinger missile that cost $25,000 in 1991, now costs more than $400,000 a 1600% increase in just 3 decades. The US navy is decommissioning more subs than they are receiving even though they only have 49 nuclear attack subs today when the requirement is 66 (set in 2016) and projected to decline to 43 by 2030, If the US wanted to ramp up the Sub building to 2.5 per year they can't without building new shipyards and that process is underway but it may be too late if a conflict happens with another great power, in short the US needs massive oversight and new competition in the defence industry, Turns out consolidation did not make a stronger defence base only a more expensive one.
@@ħater Yeah, this is just the part they pay taxes on, the rest is tied up in stocks, and "charity" foundations or hidden on secret foreign bank accounts. You know how it is.
Poor Greg at Raytheon. Looks like the US needs to increase its military budget so as not to leave people like Greg behind. Shame on you, USA! #leavenoceobehind
⚠️Aye Bro I've IAlways loved & supported your "no holds barred" reporting 👏🙏 Sometimes I fear that you may make some powerful enemies due to your honest reporting & exposing corruption. I pray no such thing shall ever occur. You have a whole bunch of people behind you cheering you on & I'm one of them 👏 🎉 keep up the good work, fighting the good fight 🥳
Yeah, I wouldn't worry about that. Johnny Harris doesn't go nearly deep enough to incur any real threats. The journalists they go after are Assange, Max Blumenthal, Whitney Webb, Glenn Greenwald, people who REALLY go after the powerful.
Johnny, can you turn this into a series? Point out these politicians on the take from defense contractors. Citizens can change that and hopefully change this situation.
The graphs, maps, and animations are always so detailed and clear. Always so interesting to watch; thank you to you and your team for all the hard work that goes into making these videos😃
Actually this is a misconception. The excerpt widely shared is part of a larger speech in which he advocates for a larger military. Pass it around. Ps. I agree with Harris, there is a serious conflict of interest.
@@xenoneuronics6765Because we had just gotten out of the biggestwar the world had ever seen. The MIC neededwar to justify the expenditures, and thus we've spent the next 7 decades topplinggov's and initiatingconflict the globe over.
@@xenoneuronics6765They developed some of the most amazing technology during his administration. Additionally, his tax policy included a 92% marginal tax rate where the first 10 million was taxed normally so that income wouldn't get affected, but every dollar made after that got taxed 92 cents per dollar and was the most prosperous time for the middle class in US history
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Hello Johnny. Long time subscriber here. I've written a few comments about the military industrial complex in the past and they systematically get erased. Any idea why?
Another subscription! Pain in the neck!
This is a good video. There are a few points you missed, though.
Firstly, lots of the flaws in government procurement come from the relative lack of experience or skill of the government civil servants. This is due to the fact that the best ones will routinely get hired by the private sector for significantly higher salaries. This leaves the government without the technical expertise to properly write technical specifications for contracts. Or the ability to hold the private sector to account.
Johnny, please help the movement. It's time to stop electing the rich and well connected and START electing working class Americans. But we cannot do it alone.
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Exactly
and not like Johnnyboi here he might have some actual facts
@@must_lammas Jonny had some hefty lies in this video he must have known too.
I wonder if he will correct his errors, I hope so or I definitely am going to really question his honesty across all his work.
@@Jay-vt1mwthis is just bullshit. I'm center-left and I can't even find a leftist angle here. it's just horribly bad "journalism" not based on facts.
Just came back from Ryan's void. You really got this one wrong Johnny, kinda disappointed.
The more you look into his videos, you realize this isnt the only video he got very wrong...
Disappointed? He does this on every video. He is part of the leftist media machine…you know “America is inherently evil and we have to atone for our past sins from 163 years ago”. You know that machine? The one forcing DEI on us? The one who has “transitioned” our public schools from teaching reading and mathematics to gender equality and white man bad…like that will help our kids when they adults
Dude, most of his videos are as inaccurate as this one. He posts things based on what you want to hear, not truth.
Thank you, Ryan McBeth, for doing actual competent investigative journalism. 🏆❤
@@94fishhead The more I watched Johnny's video, the more delusional the narrative went. 👎
The volume of slimy, opinion-based, biased misrepresentation Johnny uses... It rivals the worst of the worst.
Ryan macbeth just exposed a few of the bigger lies in this video
Johny Harris is a liar masquerading as a journalist. The key here is to spread misinformation with confidence.
lmao you just got Ryan McBeth'd
Are you implying that someone who works in the defense industry is part of the military industrial complex? I would trust Ryan over Johnny H. If Ryan made an error he would admit it if called out. He has done so.
The more I watched Johnny's video, the more delusional the narrative went. 👎
The volume of slimy, opinion-based, biased misrepresentation Johnny uses... It rivals the worst of the worst.
Thank you, Ryan McBeth, for doing actual competent investigative journalism. 🏆❤
@@harroldhenderson Keep inhaling the Copium
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Ryan makes you look like a right fool. POLAND spends a higher percentage of their GDP on their military than the USA does. 😂
Damned straight! They've got an unhinged, uncontrollable, angry gangster on their doorstep. They've got no choice.
@@HaxhijajHaxhijaj thats hilarious lol. You actually believe its cheaper to create a govt enforced monopoly? Which is precisely what govt owned business are.
@@minichief307 not true. russia and poland share a border :)
@@minichief307 No, they do not share a "real border" and Poland has already been invaded by Russia... several times.
I just watched Ryan McBeth's examination of this video. In a nutshell, you are lying to us. He proved it. I just wanted to let your viewers know.
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I don't know man, I just watched the other guy's video after reading comments, he also skipped a lot of data, like Boeing selling parts to the US Army for 3.5k dollars which is available for 15$ with tax.
Also his proofs are as strong as Johnny's proof. Saying that META/Google/Amazon gives better returns in stock market doesn't mean that Politicians don't invest money in defence companies, in fact in a seperate YT channel's video (in 2016 ig) they showed which politician invests how much money in Defence, Pharmaceutical and Gun Companies.
Though I agree that Johnny should have talked with someone from the military to get perspective from both sides.
This is garbage. Upon further inspection, I found nearly everything in this video to be wrong, misunderstood, or a lie.
He does it for views, nothing more.
I watched the whole of Johnny's video. ^^ The more I watched, the more delusional his narrative went. 👎
The volume of slimy, opinion-based, biased misrepresentation Johnny uses... It rivals the worst of the worst.
Thank you, Ryan McBeth, for doing actual competent investigative journalism. 🏆❤
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It’s outright misinformation
That’s what the government gives us lol, so you’re saying they are wrong, and a lie ?
Anyone else here after Ryan McBeth’s video exposing all the lies Johnny told in this?
I came here after I unsubscribed from JH
Yessir 🫡
Never heard of Johnny before Ryan exposed him today. I'm glad the algorithm is keeping these charlatans away from my feed. RIP his subscribers.
Watched it before and it seems a little off, then watched Ryan. This dude has no idea what he is talking about. RUclipsr influeencer dude stay withing your topic, make some socks or something. God I hate those RUclips personas.
Me,!
oh boy, Johnny Harris is finally getting called out by actual experts on the BS that he pedals daily
Wow this guy doesn't know what the hell he is talking about
He's like a nutrition bar until you read the ingredients
Then you realize it's only junkinside.
The majority of his videos are like that.
@@Ad-skip why am I not suprised
Did you even do any research for this? Really, like any research? This is so factually incorrect that it’s yellow journalism.
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In other countries its called corruption, in the US its called lobbying.
Other countries have lobbying for military spending as well.
@@wisenber no why on earth your country use 40 percent every year like USA is one dominance on earth
@@jesterguinanao5929 That's 40% of 31%. 69% goes to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and interest on a giant national debt.
And that's federal spending which is about 22% of GDP.
Suddenly that"40" becomes "2.7".
Nailed it, in other countries insider trading is also illegal for politicians. We do it, we go to Martha Stewart prison, if they do it, they get filthy stinking rich.
It's just the free market at work, nothing to see here
I hope people realize this video is full of lies
This video is full of shit 😊
*Reported for misinformation.
Ok, you have been called out. By Ryan McBeth.
Folks, Harris is lying again! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Everyone should take a few minutes to watch Ryan McBeth's response to this video.
Ryan Mcbeth brought me here
Free healthcare? You spelled Hellfire Missile wrong, triple the defense budget.
Nah, I'd dive.
You misspelled money for the executives at Lockheed, Raytheon, and Boeing
@@CamiloSanchez1979as opposed to Pfizer Bayer J&J Merck and Eli Lilly who would do the same but already account for an inflationary huge amount of cash?
Government spending just isn't the solution to either of these problems. Europhiles ignore the deficit spending in those countries, and only see a single image in time, not the direction they're going (pop collapse and overregulation decoupling innovation causing them to use countries that enslave their people for supplies). Warphiles just want to rule the globe and don't mind sacrificing well being of normal people to do it. Taxing and inflating the cash away.
I dont want either but no one want to work with me because I wont give them their pretty shiny bauble, so instead we get war and endless spending into the moneypit
The military budget wouldn't last a year funding healthcare. Medicare and Medicare budget alone are 1.7 Trillion dollars. The majority of our federal spending (around 58%) is benefit programs.
In some sense (aka irony and sarcasm) I have to say North Korea has been the most fashionable in this trend for so long, sadly the rest of the world has just seen its brilliance.
"journalist". imagine being this blatantly wrong.
Yep
With 140 Billion in R&D. Every year, and you telling me they still haven’t built iron man suits or Gundams.
R and D is a convinient tools to steal money.
Gundams would be sick
Evas
What do you mean? There's one standing in Tokyo right now. There has been one for a long time........
.... ohhh, you mean you actually want a working one? Yeah, good luck there!
burocracy at its best
"Why does the US spend so much on its military?"
In before Johnny changes the title 99 times.
I’ve already seen 2 thumbnails in the first 15 minutes
just saw the thumbnail change
"You won't believe what the US spends most of its military budget on" --calling the next title
It’s because his videos are not very good.
@@lucasettenokay bud go take a time out
When I served, I was told at the end of every fiscal year, every unit has to use all of their money, because if they don't then the next year, they will lose their budget.
Sounds like what soviet did back in the old days with their industrial complex
That's what I heard in civil service (a half century ago).
You heard correct
That's pretty standard across most government departments...
TABOR
Mcbeth gang here!
I love how an app called "Rocket Money" chose to sponsor a video trying to figure out what does the US military spend its money on.
Yeahhh looll...clearly the US need "rocket money" to manage it expenses well lool
It's all about the MONEY 💰🤯
HA! Two levels of joke there. Simply delicious.
Rocket money isn’t a trading app though like robinhood or that so it’s not like you can’t invest in these military companies via rocket money unless you use rocket money to deposit to somewhere you can invest in military companies like royals Royce Lockheed etc etc
LMAO great catch
The fact that the us government can find out if you owe 1 dollar in taxes but fail to ensure efficient spending is out of this world worsened by the fact that since 9/11 they've had no reason to engage in any warfare thats 13 yrs of $800B unnecessary spendings
200 billion just went missing in aid for Ukraine 😂. It happend at the same times Hawaii had those fires, and it would have cost 200 billion to recover. But no it just dissapears into thin air.
@@MRblazedBEANS hey you cant talk bad about the Ukraine war.. literally people are getting banned from there for going there and asking Ukrainians where does the money go
Haha nice one 🤣
Our Founding Fathers have instituted things in the US Constitution to fight against this, why don't we enact these? George Washington would be extremely upset with how we have let the government become. Because George Washington fought against exactly what our government has become.
@@MRblazedBEANS ukraine has not recieved close to 200 billion. Nice job tho
Ain't called the "military industrial complex" for nothing
like
do a video on biafra
Eisenhower called it "military industrial congressional complex". But then removed the "congressional" term because congressmen would be upset.
More than 60 years after Eisenhower identified the problem and gave it a name :
---> M1C
continues to use its unprecedented influence to corrupt budget and policy processes, starve funding for non-military solutions to security problems
Go watch Ryan McBeth's video debunking this.
Ryan McBeth destroyed this video. Edit it, delete it, or make another addressing it.
Ryan Macbeth just debunked your video ruclips.net/video/km00ulLxieE/видео.html
*wheezes in based Ryan McBeth*
You, good sir, are a LIAR 😂
Ryan McBeth did this video better!
Go watch Ryan McBeth's response to this POS video Johnny is lying and omitting information
Just saw Ryan McBeth's video on this. I'd advise taking this down and publishing an apology video for spreading misinformation.
Did you even do any research before making this video ? You should have just named this video Misinformation of why the U.S military spends so much money.
It’s all
Info from the government so Yes you’re saying they give us misinformation?
Johnny, please watch Ryan McBeth's video addressing misinformation in your own video. I know you appreciate getting to the truth on things and there's a lot of very good rebuttals you should look at as a high priority. Really want to support you but can't if you don't have an answer to his criticisms.
Last time he was called out by Tom Nicholas, Johnny feinted a response of gratitude, but then double down by completely ignoring questions about how he received the false information in the first place. the probable context was that he was likely hired to crate the propaganda peace as opposed to it being his own interest in doing the research in the topic.
I have no doubt he is funded by russian rubles, like Tim Pool, Benny Johnson and others. Directly paid via russia to spread hate.
Unsubscribe, misinformation
I’m so glad we have people like Ryan McBeth
I think "Johnny Harris" is a Russian sleeper peddling snake-oil
Damn Ryan McBeth exposed your ass
I used to work on jets in the Marine Corps. Every time the jets went out flying, they'd come back with several screws missing. It's not uncommon to have to replace 15 screws after every flight. What blew my mind was seeing how much each screw cost the Marine Corps. $55 dollars PER SCREW. $55 for a screw that you could get a whole box of from your local hardware store. THATS why the DoD spends an insane amount of money.
well to be fair... if all the screws are Temu grade the aircraft won't even survive any sortie... or even taking off
Its because they are "custom" parts made exclusively by contractors, the parts monopoly is actually crazy but with new additive construction methods like 3d printing all we need is material + a CAD model and a machine to print the part which reduces costs so much. Right now to create that part or to make improvements to a mass produced part you have to update a whole production line which lets say is time and money consuming or you just make it individually by hand at a small rate to save costs. If procurement contracts that force the US to buy parts from contractors change the price will likely go down as well.
That's almost hospital surcharge prices...
It’s not $89,000?!
I work in the defense industry. Primarily im a machinist making critical components for F35's B2's F22's and all sortsa other aircraft. Let me shed some light on the reason that screw costs $55 and why you CANT just get em at walmart. Those screws are precisely machined one at a time by my friends on lathe side, im a 5 axis mill guy but those screws are machined withen sets of tolerance to try to prevent them from flying off. I know those 15 flying off seem like alot but trust me itd be more if you used just random screws with no cares for tolerance. Those tolerances exist to accomadate for the rapid heating and cooling of an aircrafts surface. Albeit therell always be some that fly off thats why each hour of flight requirs X so many hours of maintenance. Running and maintaining a fighter jet fleet is expensive even more so when its the most advanced fighter jet fleet to ever exist. Its something alot of upcoming or 3rd world countries trying to operate fighter jets at least good ones cant seem to get. They dont have the advanced precision machining industry america has to just churn out spare parts that are ALL withen tolerance and can fit on any aircraft no problem that level if interchangibility and quality at that massive level is inconcievably expensive so it makes sense those screws cost that much not to mention the cost of the screw helps keep me in work
Imagine how much more military we would get for the same amount of money if the defense contractors didn't overcharge.
Imagine not spending this amount of money in the first place and putting it in to the education of Americans
@@ItsMeHammie So a weaker military and a smarter American populace? No prizes for guessing why the elites don't want that shit lol.
@@ItsMeHammieand healthcare and climate change or even just reducing taxes
This video has good intentions, but doesn't provide context for the spending. One example of this is the Stinger Missile. The reason why we pay so much for it now is that we haven't ordered them for over 20 years, meaning that the factories and workers that made them are usually retired. It takes time for the efficiency to ramp up, and eventually the missile will be a lot cheaper once mass produced. Additionally, they upgraded the Stinger because the old parts were not manufactured anymore, making it more expensive. The crews that operate them train in VR, which means that they don't use the actual missiles to train like suggested.
@@ItsMeHammie Someone has to be the world’s police, and I’d rather it not be China or Russia.
Check Ryan McBeth's video about what Johnny gets wrong in this video, if you haven't already had your mind made up already.
A lot of points in this video are not true. 😅
The fact a single rocket dropped will cost more than my taxes for my entire lifetime is insane
Food for thought
@@theemirofjaffa2266 Too much food for thought.
Average American makes like 8.6 million in their total life
@@t.n.h.ptheneohumanpatterna8334 that is not true what so ever lol.
@@lucasbrown2656 yes it is
Ryan McBeth announced a fact check today 🍿
@@Marc42 That’s the only reason I'm actually here. 🍿
@@fentermacherin me too. He is exposing this snake oil salesman. I would be surprised if China, Russia or Iran are somehow behind all of this.
It dropped and basically shows once again what most people know by now: Johnny Harris only has surface level knowledge of most things and thus produces poorly researched videos that at best are misinformation, at worst outright lies.
@@Benzi514 The issue is that Johnny Harris uses logical fallacies in most of his videos, at this point he is speaking more like a politician or populist than an investigative journalist.
Correction at 10:06. The "world wide web" was not developed by the US military, but at CERN by Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist. The ARPANET, which is the precursor to the internet was developed by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the US Department of Defense.
That is true
Yeahhhh it was kind of inaccurate, he should have just added the "predecessor" part
Excellent point. The general public always conflates the two.
He did say "started in part". TBL's software concepts needed the hardware infrastructure of ARPANET. In fact reverse DNS still uses .in-addr.arpa as the domain.
Al gore😂
Please watch Ryan Mcbeth instead of this channel full of lies.
Funny how the Pentagon is in the thumbnail since they failed 5 audits and can't account for like $4 trillion dollars. That's more money than the amount the military spent since 2020.
The issue is that the DOD is so large that there's hundreds of different sub-organizations that can't/won't talk to each other.
@@thegooddoctor2009
And in most cases shouldn't be talking to each other
No, the problem is not that it's so large. It's that a lot of these organizations that branch off of it are dark. They don't want anybody to know what they're spending the money on, but you can bet it's anti-American. And pro elite corporations, and their elitist.
It's racial, I'm smarter, and more prepared, generationally, geologicallly.
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I owed $16 to the IRS and they tracked me down very easily to pay it off plus a fine. What a joke this country is.
Why is that a joke?
@RichardBaran Well if you consider the cost to spend time tracking down $16 it was probably a huge net loss
@@FOXMAN09 But the intimidation is priceless.
@RichardBaran because the country waste our money and the expense of having agents to track down 16 bucks! This country is a shell corporation.
😂
Johnny oh Johnny. When you meet an educated person it doesn’t go so well.
Ryan McBeth exposed the clear bias and narrative this video has
"Spending" on military is the best way to launder money. Lawmakers get their pocket money, arms manufacturers get their steady profit from tax payers. It's really just business. I hope they can cut the part where they pretend they really care about national security and all of that.
doesnt help that the US taxpayer is paying for the military of numerous nations that refuse to budget for it themselves.
@@justanotherguy6359 well pretty sure they agreed to it snd if thry didnt theyd leave nato and europe would be done for
@@o_o9039 Maybe Europe should put on it's big-girl undies, ditch the diapers, and defend itself.
@@justanotherguy6359we don’t have 800 bases around the world because we’re trying to keep anyone else safe lmao.
Bro, it's the invisible hand of this system that keeps everything working. If you think that all what works exists because it's honest, I have a rude awakening for you
It infuriates me that anything that has to do with money such as filing a TDY voucher, we as Service Members are under a magnifying glass having to justify every little expense to "prevent fraud, waste, and abuse" while the real fraud, waste, and abuse comes from the contractors.
@@ASchnacky Look up workers' conditions in the USA during the late 19th and early 20th centuries to get an idea as to why unions are needed.
Those sound a lot like the words of someone else who has had to pay $73 for misplacing an "onyx felt tip permanent marking device" aka, a sharpie that they were issued at some point but failed to turn in before being discharged 😂
That's because corruption on the top can be accounted for. Since the number is so large, they can still see how effective the military actually is with those corruption. For example, if you know 20% of your budget is taken away by greedy defense contractor, you can re adjust your military thinking.
However, if the bottom soldiers corrupt, you are very screwed. Pulling away copper from T-72 is hard to track, and the corruption are just insane, losing millions dollars of equipment for thousands of dollars of corruption.
That's why the bottom soldier need to do so much accountability. They are the one with power to cripple a military
Or the corrupt government
It’s not just the contractors to blame here.
Does anyone remember that old meme “If NASA had budget of US military"💀💀💀
Yea 😂
I hate NASA!!!
The army has a space force , nasa is outdated.
we would be on mars by now
@@IMS-4ok, good 4 u bud
The propaganda is strong. First off in the us we spend wayyyy more on social security then the military and wayyyyyy more on midecare. We spend 200 billion more on education its just taxed locally so left pocket instead of right. Brah cmon man johnny
Yup
Now I understand why the US ranks #13 in education…
Not higher education at top colleges though
You say that like that's not on-par with most highly developed countries. Being #13 in the EU or Asia would be a feat, being 13 in the world is still amazing.
Yes, we have adults playing children games on their phone.
U.S. speaks softly while holding a big stick
Of those 13ish countries, how many of them does the US provide defense for?
Just a fun fact about the stinger missile and why it is so expensive now compared to 1991. Its because they stopped producing them in 2003 and now when the DoD put up contract so Raytheon had to recall retired workers to show how it was done 20 year earlier and completely redesign the missile, because many of the components are not produced anymore.
Edit: Spelling
Redesing?
Still a rip off. It's all a racket.
Things Johnny conveniently leaves out!
that.... does not even come close to explaining how it is 16 times the cost... And if it did somehow explain it, then the obvious question is why are we still using these? Somewhere in here is corruption 100%
@@yomommashaus I think why are we still using these, might be best answered with the question, why did we stop. We stopped because the cold war ended around 10 years before, and the current people the US was fighting didn't have aircraft. Stingers are specifically an anti-air weapon, and a waste of money on anything else. The US didn't see a fight with a country that had an air-force on the horizon. We only just put in the order for them as a response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Not to say that the monopoly doesn't add to the price, but in this case it's probably one of the most extreme price increases.
Triple the defense budget. We have freedom to spread Helldivers.
Another 20 trillion to İsrael
Make sense please.
We makin it to 10Trillion of debt with this one.
For democracy for freedom!
It's about time our enemies fear us again.
Ryan McBeth makes quite a few good counter points to Harris' claims in this video: ruclips.net/video/km00ulLxieE/видео.html
I was an Aviation Logistics Specialist in the US Navy from 2008-2012. I oversaw all the aircraft parts that USMC and Navy squadrons were using on my base. Simple Boxes with a few wires and a switch cost $127,000.00 ... Not to mention $70 screws and nuts. It's absolutely unbelievable the amount of waste these big companies and politicians in their pockets do to destroy our country.
That's the most depressing part of this video. Even I want to become a defense contractor but I wouldn't Overcharge The American government. "Simple Boxes with a few wires and a switch cost $127,000.00" is wild.
exactly! I remember a joke from the movie independence day that the govt' paid $600 for a hammer lol i guess it's true!
@@BLACKAAROW They had hearings about it in the 90's. Million dollar tarps, 10,000 dollar toilet seats... I guess they increased the kickbacks for politicians because the hearings stopped and nothing was done about it. I haven't it heard it mentioned publicly again for almost 25 years now
The same companies creating the weapons push for more war and thus creating more demand. So sad. Lobbying for money needs to be made illegal.
Type of sh*t that EVERY AMERICAN should be furious about 😤🤬
What really pisses me off as a combat wounded Airborne veteran, is why some of this graft isn't put into the Veterans Administration? Too often, when I need a service, I have to wait months to get into a community care facility, while I'm getting sicker and sicker!! I have prostate cancer from Agent Orange, severe PTSD and a whole list of other related ailments. I'm 75 now and my heart is causing me many problems but try as he may, my cardiologist can't get approval to work on my heart!! WTF?? I could rant on for hours about this shit! And NEVER would I have to lie and blame any of it on "bone spurs"!
Even worse for the people who got cancer from Agent Orange and are from Vietnam. They get absolutely nothing. Except from cancer of course.
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How did you get exposed to agent orange?
@@omarrgb4934 He was 20s-30s during the peak of Vietnam War. I would guess its related.
You served your purpose. Why would they spend money on something used and broken when they can spend the same or less on something brand new and ignorant?
When the economy gets so bad and the military is the largest employer everyone will be lining up to " serve their country" just so they can eat.
While I was in the military, a few of us were once tasked to take “old furniture” to the military disposal area which was basically 2 HUUUGE domed buildings that had very very nice furniture, electronics, and computers. I was so upset to see how much we were throwing away when that stuff could have been donated to schools or low income homes. So devestating.
Was it actually being thrown out, or was it being surplused? If it's in a usable/sellable state, most likely, it would have been auctioned off via a site like GSA Auctions, for example. I've seen UH-60s auctioned off, so furniture shouldn't be a problem.
@@kutter_ttl6786 Yes because selling 300k vehicles for pennies on the dollar like LMTVs is a great way to "save money"
" I was so upset to see how much we were throwing away when that stuff could have been donated to schools or low income homes."
They're usually auctioned off, or left for the Taliban to use.
@kutter_ttl6786 currently on the GSA auction site they have a Blackhawk helicopter at 252,000 dollars 😂
Thank you for putting all this together
Now to look at the Sources
800 Billion dollars on defence.
That is about $100 for every person on the planet.
Imagine per citizen
$=paper
What about natural resources, human time,
@@TOSikSiTkOthe whole point of money is it represents resources/labour sooo
@@demeritfc3655 No it does not does it? Money's value diminishes with inflation, but the natural resources are basically priceless.
If only humanity just magically stopped having wars with each other
I wish the money would go into the pockets of sailors, soldiers, airmen, and Marines. There are so many disabled veterans who can’t get quality healthcare, homeless vets with PTSD, and lower enlisted personnel sleeping in moldy barracks or without AC in 100+ degree temperatures. Some are facing pay problems and haven’t been paid for months. It’s unacceptable.
Actually VA healthcare is really good. It's an outdated myth that VA is a shambles, mostly created by anachronistic scenes in movies whose scriptwriters are ignorant of the facts.
Not being paid for months also sounds grossly unrealistic, given the payroll software is connected to the internet nowadays, but pay INCREASES can take 60 days to get through sometimes, it's possible. (I briefly worked in payroll while training as an accountant.)
Regarding the rest of it, that's just basic cost-cutting. How are the CEOs of contractor firms like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin gonna make their millions if you start making the staff comfortable? That's crazy talk.
idk where you got your info from, but disabled veterans /that have spoken to the department of the VA/ (Including the homeless vets you also reference) get free healthcare for life as well as a monthly tax-free disability payment that exceeds $4,000. This is also not included in the defense budget, it is its own department with it's own spending.
The second thing you listed is indeed an issue, rundown buildings and such.
and pay problems are common but you will always get backpay and *usually* if you arent getting paid its your fault.
@@andrewjohnson3940I don’t know, but the veterans I know who are rated 100% definitely aren’t getting over $4,000. The free healthcare is okay at best; when you go to the VA, you often end up misdiagnosed because the doctors are so overloaded that they just want to get you in and out. Many are still in pain, and I wouldn’t necessarily blame the doctors. A lot of sailors, marines, and soldiers are just following orders, but sometimes personal issues, like lost paperwork, prevent them from getting paid. I also haven’t mentioned the problem of overpayments, which can leave people in debt to the government.
Personal/admin.
@@andrewjohnson3940 from what I've gathered, talking to online friends in America, there are a lot of hurdles to get those benefits. Nearly endless paperwork, which can be impossible for some of them to fill out, especially the ones with PTSD. If all the veterans have done, since leaving high school, is in the military they may be lacking the skills the rest of society has, because everything it provided for them in a very regimented way.
The best depiction, I've seen, was in _The Hurt Locker_ when _Jeremy Renner's_ character is back home and goes shopping for his wife. He's shown staring at this massive isle of breakfast cereal and being overwhelmed by the choices. It may have been portrayed in other shows, I don't watch that many, but other than reading books that's the scene which stuck in my mind about it.
Remember, Johnny is not suicidal and would not kill himself
Thinking a milquetoast critique of the military would result in them wanting to kill him is hilarious.
Yes, this is a dangerous video to make. Bravo to his bravery.
@@krishchettyThey would likely find an accuse arrest him not end him
Johnny's next video is going to be recorded from some underground bunker in Utah, lol.
Really wouldn't worry about that. Johnny is a Fed
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I liked your videos Johnny :(
You know what's crazy? That $916B is just 3.4% of the US GDP. There are 15 or so countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Morocco, Singapore, Armenia, Pakistan and Cambodia that spends more on defense GDP percentage-wise than the US. Just goes to show how large the economy truly is.
Murray Rothbard is rolling over in his grave. GDP growth is just an illusion.
GDP and gov budget is two separate thing
and the aid on ukraine is barely a scratch 😂😂😂
who knows if the US went full support
Sort of it's 35 trillion in debt so it's running on credit
@@RichardGeresGerbilwho does the USA owe the debt to?😂😂😂
The crazy thing is the US government has been able to convinced it's citizens that it's perfectly acceptable to spend this much money on its military/weapons while not having a public health service and having it's own citizens die or go bankrupt when they get sick.
US spends more per citizen on healthcare than most other developed nations.
We spend 6% of our money on the military. We spend 60% on Medicare and Social Security and other social programs.
So ten times what we spend on the military goes to the demographic that you say isn't getting enough. If you want to look for waste and abuse you need to start there.
I’m going to have to disagree. You’re not accounting for how immensely wealthy the US is. We spend this much, and yet it’s STILL only like one sixth of what we spend on resident social programs. Almost all science research falls under this budget for example look at GPS, what we all use daily. We’ve put more than entire foreign countries GDPs into GPS and its upkeep which keeps planes flying accurately and makes modern life possible. Thats just one example!
1:31 the video it says it’s 43% to military and like 5% for health care tho?
I think some Americans like you fail to understand that the U.S. is already one of the wealthiest countries in the world, and that is due to its strong military and diplomatic power.
However, from an external perspective, America's military strength is relatively declining, which means its global influence is waning. And if the U.S.'s global influence decreases, it will gradually become poorer. Public healthcare policies, too, ultimately depend on having the money to support them.
Before complaining from a narrow perspective, carefully assess the global trends and consider what path will truly benefit the U.S.
11:12
"It cost 400,000 dollars to fire this weapon, for 12 seconds" - Heavy, Team Fortress
Who here because of Mcbeth
I used to like some of Johnny’s videos and feel he presents them well but this is clearly a very misleading video.
@jameslyddall same
As a veteran I'll say the quiet part out loud, your service is amazing but the government is corrupt with our funding.
"Service" 😆
@@eaw6590what would you call it? Are you a US citizen?
US military service is the same as war & fighting anywhere - rich man’s sport, played by the poor. But worse because the scale of destruction of US foreign policy. Such a service should not be ‘thanked’
@@danielkim672 it's a job, a low paying government job with benefits. The vast majority of the people who join the us military do so for selfish reasons.
Furthermore, the never-ending barrage of hollywood, military, and political propaganda also causes people to join the US military. It's called indoctrination (i.e., the manufactured sense of patriotic duty that's hammered into the heads of most Americans).
They're fed glorious lies about protecting freedom and the constitution when, in reality, their main job is to protect international business interests, plus expanding US hegemony all the while exacerbating the bloated military industrial complex
@@eaw6590 I'd beg to differ on the selfish part a bit. Unless you ever served you don't know what motivates someone to join. Plus the reason to stay can be different than when a person joins.
In the UK we have a concept that Military + Healthcare = X where X is constant. For the first time since WW2 the total of these two is increasing (rather than military decreasing and healthcare increasing)
And now you don't have both
Who do you think has been funding your military all this time, though? We defend basically the entire world
@@nullpro7435 from the monsters you create. Thank you. It's called racketter.
The UK should become the 51st state of the US 😹
The UK military is in a catastrophic state at the moment with it's constant budget cuts over the past 20 years, it would quite literally not be able to defend itself if they went to war right now. It's a pretty sever issue
Whenever I watch documentaries about issues in the U.S., there are a few topics that come up again and again: student loans, high medical costs, and homelessness. It makes me wonder-if just a portion of the military budget was allocated to these areas, could things like education and healthcare become more affordable, or even free?
They could absolutely fund and end all those issues you mention and the US would STILL be the top spender in the world on its military budget. This is how ridiculously bloated their spending is.
@@egdapo except you forget that the main reason why everything costs so much is because people get paid to make it, unlike in the countries that consider themselves your opponents. Russia can make way more with a billion dollars than you cuz they don't need to pay as high a wages
Your idea has been long debated. The short answer is simply throwing money at something doesn’t make it better. The long answer is that resources are limited and you have to allocate them depending on your priority: if you want the best teachers you’ll have to pull people who would otherwise be in finance/medicine/law and instead have them be teachers.
Except that us spends a lot more per capita on Healthcare and education than any other country in the world. Only that it's not used to make it free. The problem is never about money
They could fund all of it just by eliminating waste, fraud and over charging by contractors. They wouldn't even have to touch the other parts of the budget
Hey Johnny, a few things seemed off in this video. There’s no U.S. military base in Finland, so those red dots are a bit misleading. Also, NATO countries actually fund their own bases-it’s a common misconception that the U.S. covers those costs for everyone. Its also interesting that Finland’s F-35s, for example, were bought independently at around $74 million each, even before NATO membership. It’s surprising to hear the U.S. might be paying almost double that price; could it be that their cost includes additional support or upgrades beyond just the planes?
Also, comparing military equipment prices from 1991 to now doesn’t quite fit, since technology has advanced so much, and costs have risen across the board. As more countries buy these advanced jets, prices go up simply due to demand, and because few companies can match the quality of U.S. military tech. Outside of the missile and airplane industries, we’re also seeing more new companies step into areas like drones, where there’s less of a monopoly. This video felt a bit off-target with some of the info. I would tag this video as fake news or misleading info.
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American engineer after graduation: I will never join evil Military companies.
Lockheed Martin with million dollars check: Are you sure kid?
And if they question some immoral project, they have a freak accident.
Morals don't keep the lights on.
Have a couple of friends who graduated with electrical engineering degrees and thats exactly what happened. Cant even be mad at them, I respect it. Its the same thing for me, im in tech and joined a financial hedge fund company due to the money despite me knowing the industry is also immoral.
The jobs at the defense contractors are extremely hard to get. They get thousands of applications per position and only hire the top 1% engineers who had a 3.8+ GPA and multiple internships in college. They aren't begging for people.
@@DeathsOnTheYAxisI don't think you understand. He's saying people come out of college saying they won't join defense contractors because of morals. Then they do because they pay so much, especially out of college.
Half of our *discretionary* spending goes towards the military, not half of the total budget. Your graphic was correct but the way you said it is very misleading. The total we spend on our military is 13% when taking into account the total budget, not half.
Yeah it's misleading for sure.
Totally agreed, and without explaining how significant different that is, is concerning. I appreciate @JohnnyHarris videos but this oversight made me lose faith in the video overall.
I have seen him doing the same. He’s good but not great.
Making such a glaring mistake 30s into the video into your very first opening points is unacceptable. Harris is good at making videos, not educating people.
not the only misleading thing in this video tbh
I like how Ryans video is longer then the original. Ryan McBeth is the champ
If you take the Blue or Yellow line on the metro, you will notice that the pentagon station only has advertisements for military manufacturers meant for a handful of requisition officers.
It's because the US military is the real US Dollar value. Nuff said.
Facts! If we stopped the spending our economy would look really bad on paper.
But it would also make life better for everyone not employed in some way by the government
Agree
Agree
@@owencastle7826 Probably because our economy has been sh*t since 1971 and we're all just pretending it's fine.
literally one of the best edited youtube videos I've ever seen. Well done.
Johnny my boy, you have been Ryan McBathed. The guy that if he feels like it can find out where you live and show you the cost of a hell fire missile. 😂
Me: Accidentally puts too much oil in my pan when making eggs
US army: knock knock
we actually produce more oil than any other country, its not oil.
@@JamesZeroSix sure buddy.
@@JamesZeroSix sure buddy. It’s simply democracy.
@JamesZeroSix it is not just oil but keeping oil markets flowing is in our national interest.
Who cooks eggs in oil…butter all the way
I'm guessing people complaining about the military budget will vote for the same people who will do nothing about the military budget.
media is great at keeping the majority distracted and afraid. Cant think of more than 3 people that would really change the military complex ( rfk jr, jill stein, cornell west )
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Any candidate that suggests cutting the military budget isn't getting anywhere near the White House....look at what they are doing to Trump
Absolutely. Because if they don't [insert Democrat or Republican here] would win. And that would be The End Of The World (tm).
Well they buy everyone vote doesn't matter
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Johnny I saw you at IAD on 10/3 on my way to Doha! Thank you for all of your content! I always recommend you to my friends and family! Great video once again
You sure you say him?
@@internetconspiracy7525 100% he was on the phone though. He was wearing airpro max headphones
@@FlyLowRaelough damn bro, you only caught a glimpse, I am deeply inspired by johnny but unfortunately I don't live in the US.
If it wasn't for the internet, I would honestly just be a layman.
I saw you on my way to Doha. You had yo bags at the gate you was ready to go ha? 😅😅😅
@@NoixNoir-gu4fd probably not bud because I’m not a massively famous RUclipsr with almost 6mil subscribers. I’m a bit more incognito :P
The USA's military budget may seem massive but there are many factors where the US is losing capability due to high costs. US labor is expensive people forget that roughly one-quarter of the Department of Defense's budget is for military personnel, The US over pays for many weapons for example a stinger missile that cost $25,000 in 1991, now costs more than $400,000 a 1600% increase in just 3 decades. The US navy is decommissioning more subs than they are receiving even though they only have 49 nuclear attack subs today when the requirement is 66 (set in 2016) and projected to decline to 43 by 2030, If the US wanted to ramp up the Sub building to 2.5 per year they can't without building new shipyards and that process is underway but it may be too late if a conflict happens with another great power, in short the US needs massive oversight and new competition in the defence industry, Turns out consolidation did not make a stronger defence base only a more expensive one.
its actually a 1600% increase from 25k to 400k
@@coffinpainflam1818 ah thanks i'll edit it wrote that whole thing out a few years ago lol
Anduril is actually doing something new and shaking up the defense industry. Hopefully this trend continues and we'll see more competition.
He said that already dude
i agree with this.
Lockheed Martin: CEO: James D. Taiclet: $23M
Boeing: CEO: Kelly Ortberg: $59M
Raytheon: CEO: Gregory J. Hayes: $5M
Northrop Grumman: CEO: Kathy J. Warden: $25M
General Dynamics: CEO: Phebe Novakovic: $23M
L3Harris Technologies: CEO: Chris Kubasik: $19.82M
much less than I would expect ngl
The US military is a social program that is far more productive than the general welfare activists advocate for.
Of course shitty Boeing is the most lavish with CEO compensation.
@@ħater Yeah, this is just the part they pay taxes on, the rest is tied up in stocks, and "charity" foundations or hidden on secret foreign bank accounts. You know how it is.
Poor Greg at Raytheon.
Looks like the US needs to increase its military budget so as not to leave people like Greg behind.
Shame on you, USA!
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Man I’m glad I watched the debunk video first
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Yeah, I wouldn't worry about that. Johnny Harris doesn't go nearly deep enough to incur any real threats. The journalists they go after are Assange, Max Blumenthal, Whitney Webb, Glenn Greenwald, people who REALLY go after the powerful.
Johnny, can you turn this into a series? Point out these politicians on the take from defense contractors. Citizens can change that and hopefully change this situation.
I'd like to see that. He could also cover the environmental impact of the military, for the benefit of all the Democrats lately calling for more war.
@@strayedarticle2838 Calling for more war? who said that? genuinely curious.
hint:all of them
@@RoyD_S by more war they mean, not abandoning Ukraine to the russians
agreed, more transparency about who to shame for taking massive evil $$$
The graphs, maps, and animations are always so detailed and clear. Always so interesting to watch; thank you to you and your team for all the hard work that goes into making these videos😃
I'm glad I'm not the only one who geeked out about that as well
What is the slander on the f35? You clearly did no research or just outright lied about the f35
Outstanding. First time here but will return often, 👏🏾👏🏾
Thank you for taking the time to break this all down. I knew most of this stuff already but your time and effort is much appreciated Johnny!
Eisenhower warned us in 1961 about the defense industrial complex
Actually this is a misconception. The excerpt widely shared is part of a larger speech in which he advocates for a larger military. Pass it around.
Ps. I agree with Harris, there is a serious conflict of interest.
And during Eisenhower's day, we spent 3x as much on defense as a % of GDP. So that's kind of a nail in the coffin of that concept
@@xenoneuronics6765Because we had just gotten out of the biggestwar the world had ever seen. The MIC neededwar to justify the expenditures, and thus we've spent the next 7 decades topplinggov's and initiatingconflict the globe over.
@@xenoneuronics6765They developed some of the most amazing technology during his administration. Additionally, his tax policy included a 92% marginal tax rate where the first 10 million was taxed normally so that income wouldn't get affected, but every dollar made after that got taxed 92 cents per dollar and was the most prosperous time for the middle class in US history