Nonproductive Government

Not all government spending hurts the economy, as many conservatives believe. But certain types of government spending DRAIN CRITICAL RESOURCES away from the goods producing sectors of the American or any other economy. These losses are due to a brain drain of scientific and engineering talent; a capital drain of heavy equipment and construction; and a “hard nosed people” drain of those good at “technical and/or physical” labor. All of these key resources are being taken from the civilian economy. These diversions rob resources from “goods producers” competing in the global REAL ECONOMY, for the sake of a SERVICE, a political service: military spending.

This is not just rhetorically true, it is mathematically true. The main ingredient I’m talking about explains the rise and fall of civilizations throughout the ages. It is low in the emerging nation and high in the declining nation, consistently showing a negative impact on a nation’s economy exactly proportional to its size. In modern nations it models a direct reduction in capital investment equal to its size. It also has a tendency to dominate the politics, regional economies, and crime rates of the nation. See below links.