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raises hand Uh, I know where we can find money before we start adding more taxes. China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, India, France, United Kingdom, and Japan, combin
by peterwwillis 8y ago
raises hand Uh, I know where we can find money before we start adding more taxes.
China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, India, France, United Kingdom, and Japan, combined, spend less on their military than we do.
I get that she's a politician and all politicians have to play to their base, but can we not all agree, in any political arena, that the 674 Billion dollars spent on the military (over half of federal discretionary spending) is perhaps too high?
I mean, what the actual fuck? How can anyone justify this? We're not even fighting any real wars, our Navy is in fucking shambles, our brand new fighter planes are a joke, and we're soon going to hire more contractors than actual soldiers. Just replace heating oil with $100 bills from the military industrial complex's pockets, it'll do more good for us.
- jki275 8y agoDOD is 27% of the US budget. Using the "discretionary spending" trick is being disingenuous. Let's fix SSDI and other entitlement abuse spending first. And the Navy needs more ships, but it's not "in shambles", and the JSF is the best aircraft that's ever been built, even if it did cost too much and take too long to get to IOC.