What do you think about the impact of military contract on our enonomy?

Question

Federal Government is pouring more than 100 billions into the American Society for supporting the war in Iraq and Afganistan in the form of military contract. Those military contractor get the contract and make huge donation to the political party in power in return. They are both benefited from the war. What is the situation if the war is over, over 150,000 G.I. come back to seek employments, no more military contract for people to work on. The military spending comes from bonds issued by the Federal Government.

The unemployment rate is low because Federal Government hires tons of security guards to prevent possible terror attack and send more than 150,000 military aboard. What the unemployment rate will be after the war. We will get broke.

Answer 1

Immediately after World War II, the giant U.S. military-industrial complex recognized the profitability of 'war' (Eisenhower warned us about it). So, all the politicians were bought up, pricey lobbyists were hired, and special interest groups were formed to promote and encourage more 'war'. Thus, the U.S. was entangled in the Korean Conflict; the Cuban Missile Crisis; the Cold War; Vietnam and Desert Storm. Corporations like McDonnell-Douglass, Lockheed-Martin, Sikorsky and Boeing made BILLIONS off gullible U.S. taxpayers. Now, a new 'war' was necessary to boost the sagging profits of all those war industry companies that hadn't made much money during peace time. Add to that the two 'newcomers' to the government's war trough: the Carlyle Group and Halliburton both needed to get their share of the BILLIONS of war dollars; both corporations have direct ties to the Bush-Cheney White House.
George H.W. Bush joined the Carlyle Group right after he left the Oval Office. This company attracted several investors from Saudi Arabia, including a family by the name of binLaden who invested $2.5 million.
Dick Cheney was former CEO of Halliburton, a company virtually unknown until it gave Cheney a $36 million going-away bonus just before he was elected Vice-President. Now Halliburton is one of the largest government contractors. Halliburton is building fourteen new permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq (which proves that the U.S. expects to be "in" Iraq for decades, if not generations - until every drop of OIL is sucked from that nation's sand). To add insult to injury, Halliburton is relocating its corporate headquarters to the Cayman Islands to avoid paying U.S. taxes on the BILLIONS of war dollars they've earned in the past five years.
Yes, when our troops finally come home, there will be few jobs waiting for them. Bush will have cut out much of the veterans' benefits programs, and many of our valiant soldiers will return with physical and emotional scars that will last a lifetime and require intense medical care. But unemployment will run rampant among American veterans as politicians ignore soldiers' service and continue to line their own pockets with obscene salaries, cost-of-living pay increases, lavish benefits, lifetime 'perks' and outlandish health and medical care all for themselves.
May God bless our troops.
May God damn our politicians.
-RKO- 08/26/07

Answer 2

It seems as if you've already answered your own question. Generally, whenever the government puts tax money back into circulation by paying for goods and services, the economy, as measured by Wall Street stock prices, goes up. This applies both to military spending and infrastructure construction. Your assumption that "We will get broke," depends on a lot of variables besides troops coming back from Iraq. Most of those troops will remain in the military or find jobs when they get home. Others are reservists who will pick up where they left off. And the government can always find ways to spend my money. They always have before.