Let's talk about military spending

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Definitely not where I anticipated that post ending up.

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To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

To provide and maintain a Navy;

To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

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I for one support doing away with the active duty Army and Air Force and having a large powerful Navy

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Because after all, nothing is less important than American strength in the world and goddamn we need some tax cuts so I can buy cable. 

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I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902–1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.

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Because we don't need them in my utopia where we don't involve ourselves in every random conflict that pops up and they're just an excuse to fight wars we don't need to fight. The Navy is perfectly capable of dealing with the brushfires that pop up that threaten our economic interests. A strong a well trained reserve or national guard force could be called up in the event of a major war.

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For one, we have told Japan that we do not want them to. This was US policy (still is). Seriously, how can you blame Japan for this? We also wanted to keep Germany weak so we have more or less the same deal there, but now in one fell swoop Trump starts complaining about, it is insane and unfair

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