a world of peace

"World Peace!", she says, a common answer at any pageant.


Well sister, let me tell you something about world peace, we'll start small scale for you, ok?


There are about 311,788,631 (three-hundred and eleven million seven hundred and eighty-eight thousand six hundred and thirty-one.) citizens in the United States, 2,271,475 (two-million two-hundred and seventy-one thousand, four-hundred and seventy-five) of those citizens are in the armed forces.
So we can say that at LEAST (approx.) .73% of those people have Warfare as a job.


That doesn't seem like too much, does it? 
Well let me ask you something, who provides vehicles for those men and women? who provides weapons? who provides protection, ammunition, fuel, food, uniforms, EVERYTHING that an army would EVER need?


It's not such a small force now is it?
That is a LOT of people who have warfare as a job in one way or another, so now let me ask you, if world peace was achieved, what would actually happen?


Well for sure you'd have some two-million people out of a job, not to mention all the other people who supply them, and that's just in the U.S. alone. 


Lets take that percentage and use it against the world, that leaves us with some 50 million people unemployed (only counting soldiers).


But hey, not the whole world has that large of a military, so lets take that percentage down to .5%


more than 34 million people unemployed (again, just soldiers).


Yeah, vote for world peace, and watch your neighbors starve.


War is a part of humanity, it always has been, it always will be, sorry, but that's the way it's going to be. If I'm honest, I'll say the world NEEDS war, we need conflict, it's in our nature. Not only that, but how much of the world's economy is based upon war? 
A lot. 


- The day the world goes to peace, is the day the world goes to pieces. 


- Ernie.