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re: Do you support cuts to military spending?
Posted on 7/31/18 at 8:52 pm to DavidTheGnome
Posted on 7/31/18 at 8:52 pm to DavidTheGnome
I think defense spending should be approximately 1/6th of the budget.
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Posted on 7/31/18 at 8:53 pm to DavidTheGnome
Why not cut defense and most everything else 1-2% at a time. Sweeping changes create havoc.
Posted on 7/31/18 at 8:55 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Are taxes going up? We far outspend what we collect. The size of the government is the problem, but we don’t attack the problem. We get instant gratification by cutting taxes when we aren’t even paying the bills in the first place.
Posted on 7/31/18 at 8:56 pm to Gptxr
Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, SS
Posted on 7/31/18 at 9:08 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Ok, well do we get a check back for those of us who have paid untold sums into them and have never used them? Also, are we sure that the cost associated with ending those programs such as increses in homelessness, poverty, emergency room visits, cost of housing inmates won't really help fiscally? I hate waste so all for better administration, but I also have to look at reality. At least in 2018.
Posted on 7/31/18 at 9:16 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Abolish SS
Cut medicare and medicaid in half along with the military
End all government pension funds immediately
End congressional free health care for life
Cut corporate welfare to 0%
Abolish the Dept of education and end the WODs
Close every other agency that is wasteful
Billions saved
Cut medicare and medicaid in half along with the military
End all government pension funds immediately
End congressional free health care for life
Cut corporate welfare to 0%
Abolish the Dept of education and end the WODs
Close every other agency that is wasteful
Billions saved
This post was edited on 7/31/18 at 9:18 pm
Posted on 7/31/18 at 9:17 pm to DavidTheGnome
Everything but the navy.
We need to expand the navy to roughly double the combat ships we currently have.
We need to expand the navy to roughly double the combat ships we currently have.
Posted on 7/31/18 at 9:18 pm to DavidTheGnome
Issue is really how we do government contracts. Spend more on current equipment and less on bullshite like the F35 and LCS program.
Also the Army can be halved. Why we need that many soldiers when we're surrounded by water is dumb.
Also the Army can be halved. Why we need that many soldiers when we're surrounded by water is dumb.
This post was edited on 7/31/18 at 9:20 pm
Posted on 7/31/18 at 9:24 pm to asurob1
I generally agree with you but not here.
Posted on 7/31/18 at 10:17 pm to DavidTheGnome
No
Posted on 7/31/18 at 10:42 pm to DavidTheGnome
frick the anti-military bull shite all up in this thread.
Pussies...
Pussies...
Posted on 7/31/18 at 10:43 pm to DavidTheGnome
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Do you support cuts to military spending?
I support cuts to spending paired with revisiting strategy. Scale the operations way back.
I also support reverting back to War Department instead of Department of Defense. Calling it defense makes it easier for people to justify the spending and nonstop wars in the name of "defense."
Posted on 7/31/18 at 10:57 pm to Knight of Old
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frick the anti-military bull shite all up in this thread.
Who is anti-military..?
Posted on 7/31/18 at 11:02 pm to starsandstripes
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Cuts would be reasonable to discuss if they weren't just going to ruin people's lives by kicking them out - and that's what always happens with cuts.
Life goes on.
Posted on 7/31/18 at 11:04 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
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fricking this!!!! Why is it that whenever cutting spending comes around the military is always the first thing out of people's mouths,
Blah blah blah.
Cut it in half.
Posted on 7/31/18 at 11:06 pm to SCLibertarian
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The mafia would sooner open their books to the Feds before anyone in Washington D.C.
The last time any genuine inquiry in to DoD spending happened, the portion of the Pentagon that housed the Comptroller and his """investigation""" managed to be destroyed.
Posted on 7/31/18 at 11:06 pm to junkfunky
Chop chop chop
Posted on 7/31/18 at 11:13 pm to starsandstripes
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All of these add up to putting more Americans in the ground than ought to be there.
frick YOU to every one of you that wants cuts. You just want Americans killed.
What a clown
Posted on 7/31/18 at 11:15 pm to MrCarton
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What a clown
Hard to tell the difference between a useful idiot and a partisan.
Posted on 7/31/18 at 11:21 pm to Azkiger
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For every dollar cut from military spending match it with 2 dollars cut from welfare programs and then we'll talk.
Why not for every $2 cut from military, $1 cut from welfare?
Or dollar for dollar.
Plus, military spending just got a $50 billion jump last year, so why don't we scale that back and start from there?
The more war toys you give them, the more Trump and Bolton will want to play war.
And there has not been any talk that I have seen about trying to get more bang for the buck out of the money we spend on the military. How much pure fat is there in a $700 billion annual military budget - $50b - $100b?
Russia spent $61 billion on defense in 2017, a 17% decline from the previous year. China's budget for 2018 is $175 billion, a 1.1% increase from 2017.
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