how come most all third world countries have huge defense budgets when the majority of their populations ...?

Question

don't have enought to eat, a roof over their head or a decent economy to find a paying job in? Where do the weapons that are stockpiled in their arsenals come from? Who benefits from the sales of the billions spent on these unnecessary weapons? How do the local population benefit? What would happen to the US economy if it stopped mass producing and mass proliferating weapons of MD?

Absolutely Zestful12 - the rich getting richer and the poorer...

Answer 1

right now all the countries care about showing off their powers and not really thinking about what they definitely need to improve on. I'm originally from india and as u have probably heard that india's economy is improving dramatically. Well, if you ask me, it difinitely is improving army bases business but a majority of the poor is still in india.

Answer 2

When the government is totalitarian, the political machine is subordinate over the individual, the "state" strictly controls every aspect of one's life using any measure, usually coercive.

Answer 3

That's because 'foreign aid' is where poor people in rich countries give money to rich people in poor countries...