Defense Spending
topic on 6 shows · 9 statements across 9 episodes
American Optimist 
the Neon Show 
Sourcery 
the a16z Podcast 
All-In 
20VC
9 statements about Defense Spending, every show
Sankar: The US has likely lost deterrence despite $1T defense budget
“It, it's pretty hard to look at this and not think, perhaps we've lost deterrence. And as a country that spends a trillion dollars a year on defense, you know, how is this happening?”
Steckman: United States accounts for 50% of total global defense spending
“50% of defense spending is in the US and 50% is in the rest of the world.”
Little: 86% of pre-Cold War defense spending went to dual-business companies
“Before the Berlin Wall fell, what was really interesting is that 86% of defense spending was with companies that both had a government business And a commercial business.”
Sankar: Post-Cold War Defense Spending Dropped to 33 Cents per Dollar
“We went from, for every dollar we were spending, we started spending 33 cents. Very substantial budget reduction. It basically happened all in one year.”
Khalid: US Government Cannot Cut Medicare, Social Security, or Defense
“No matter what Elon Musk or anybody else says you simply cannot cut Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security defense spending or thing.”
Hoffman: DOGE has zero chance of cutting $2T without defense cuts
“There is next to zero chance that the missions that they have declared will be successful because the only way to get two trillion out of the budget would be to massively reduce the deficit and reduce defense spending.”
US federal debt interest payments exceed national defense spending
“Paying the interest on our debt is a larger capital outlay for the federal government than defense spending.”
Chamath: IRA can shift trillions annually in US defense spending
“If you look at the IRA, that was less than a trillion dollars over a decade. Okay. That has the potential to shift trillions of dollars a year in defense spending.”
Friedberg: Transparent government budgets drive healthcare and education cost inflation
“It's and that's, by the way, that that's, in my opinion, based on everything I've looked at, the primary reason for the increase in education costs, because the government funds all the student loans, the increase in health care, the increase in defense, all o…”