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> No one serious is seriously saying that the military shouldn't be funded. Sure they are - at least some elements of it. And they have been for 200 years. T
by jMyles 11y ago
> No one serious is seriously saying that the military shouldn't be funded.
Sure they are - at least some elements of it. And they have been for 200 years.
The constitutional specifically prohibits a standing army; one of the biggest jokes in the contemporary political condition is that the USA doesn't have one.
I want the military defunded in its entirety, save the divisions of navy which protect coastal states from attack.
- afarrell 11y agoI think that a conventionally-dominant global superpower suddenly becoming drastically less powerful would make for a fascinating novel or TV series. The conflicts that arise as nations rush in to fill the power vacuum and adjust to a dramatically different security situation would, in the hands of a skilled writer/director be far more interesting than Game of Thrones.
- twoodfin 11y agoThe constitutional specifically prohibits a standing army No, it doesn't: The Congress shall have Power ... To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; As long as Congress keeps appropriating money for it, we can have a standing army.
- jMyles 11y agoThat's not a "standing" army - that's the whole point. The debate raged back and forth at the CC on this point with everyone ultimately agreeing that this two-year limitation was something short of a "standing" army.
- politician 11y ago> I want the military defunded in its entirety, save the divisions of navy which protect coastal states from attack. Do you consider space-based threats in the realm of the Navy?
- jMyles 11y agoI guess so, right?
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