Which part is true?
His one part about the definition of democratic socialist economies seemed off to me because its just a mixed economy to me. Basically it's the same thing as a capitalistic economy with a bit of a safety net built in. Heck, the stuff Bernie pushed for isn't even that revolutionary because it expands on the systems we already have (0-16 years of school instead of 0-12, expansion of Medicare)
Also as a former DoD employee I can personally tell you that we could maintain the same military by cutting 25% of the DoD budget. You'd be better off hiring civilian employees instead of contractors because contractors bill at $300 an hour. A civilian employee goes for $125 tops. The government workforce is probably about 50% contractors and growing and no one ever thinks of them as increasing the government.
Then you have the way government contracts are structured. You're basically incentived to spend as much as you can because you get a budget increase by blowing through your budget. And who doesn't like mo money?
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I think the military budget should be cut completely but regardless of the dollar amount the EU has been outsourcing their military to the US since like Bretton-Woods times
