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The people complaining about this have absolutely no problem with giving billions to illegal immigrant welfare chasers, tranny procedures on minors, Somali ripoff artist, Ukraine and LGBTQ+ bullshite! But make the world a better place for 200 billion? Nope! Can’t do that!

I know it’s a crazy thought but there actually many people who support neither and think the government spends about 3x the amount it should overall.

Pave the roads. Support hospitals, schools, law enforcement, and other public necessities. Keep a military strong to defend our country but not to conquer or defend others. Do the basic blocking and tackling to benefit the lives of ordinary citizens (not illegals, beyond keeping them in humane conditions until they can be deported). Otherwise, get out of our lives and leave us the hell alone.

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Posted by Srbtiger06

Member since Apr 2006

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Posted on 3/19/26 at 6:57 pm to td01241

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They want the money to replenish what was used. You’re framing it like they’re asking for the money to continue conducting the war

I drank some beer yesterday. I'm not really asking for more beer money, I'm just replenishing what I already drank just in case.

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Posted by Eurocat

Member since Apr 2004

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Posted on 3/19/26 at 6:58 pm to LuckyTiger

"Eurocat complaining about spending on war is wholly hypocritical considering he has been one of the biggest cheerleaders of sending hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine for war."

Please show me the quote where I "complained"? If it were me I would budget twice as much because this will not be easy or brief (of course I hope I am wrong).

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And now he says that Ukraine is clean as a hound's tooth. Completely devoid of corruption.

Never said that either. But there are some thing people toss around but rarely can prove it. "Money laundering" for example. If you are going to money launder there is no dumber place to do it than Ukraine because of all the "eyeballs" there. If someone wanted to money launder why would they choose to do it in Ukraine and not the Bahamas, Seychelles, Haiti, Switzerland and a dozen other mico-nations mostly in the Caribbean. Trying to money launder in Ukraine these days is like trying to sell drugs outside of a police station. Makes no sense.

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Posted by davyjones

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Member since Feb 2019

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Posted on 3/19/26 at 6:59 pm to Powerman

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Flexing on a nation that everyone in the world knew was less powerful.

“WWII style,” traditional uniformed army versus uniformed army on a defined battlefield? Sure, of course we’re superior and far, far more powerful. But I’m not so sure that the Iranian military capability and capacity and level of “power” is gauged in those traditional terms. The concept “asymmetric warfare” immediately comes to mind.

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Posted by monsterballads

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Member since Jun 2013

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Posted on 3/19/26 at 7:00 pm to td01241

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I’m just telling the truth about what they’re actually saying and requesting the money and what it would be put toward

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD, commonly referred to as the Pentagon) has failed its department-wide financial audit 8 times consecutively as of the most recent results.
Congress required annual full audits starting with fiscal year 2018 (the first one completed in 2019), and the DoD has received a failing result—typically a “disclaimer of opinion” due to pervasive material weaknesses, insufficient evidence, and accounting issues—every year since:
• The latest was for fiscal year 2025 (covering October 2024–September 2025), with results released in December 2025, marking the 8th consecutive failure.
• This follows the FY 2024 failure (announced in late 2024, the 7th), and the pattern back to the initial 2018 attempt.
Multiple sources, including the DoD’s own Agency Financial Report for FY 2025, Military Times, Defense News, Reuters, Breaking Defense, and Military.com, confirm this streak. The audit identified 26 material weaknesses and 2 significant deficiencies in internal controls over financial reporting. The DoD remains the only major federal agency never to achieve a clean (unmodified) audit opinion.

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