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You know where there is a lot money to be saved - much more than from food stamps and whatnot? The "defense"/war budget and the home police state. You could sav
by devx 13y ago
You know where there is a lot money to be saved - much more than from food stamps and whatnot? The "defense"/war budget and the home police state. You could save literally hundreds of billions of dollars - every year - and you'd still have a bigger budget than it was at the beginning of 2000's.
Not to mention an increasing chunk of that money is used against you: militarizing the police, all the unconstitutional searches from DHS, the mass spying of NSA, the "war on drugs" DEA, and so on.
Besides keeping buying stuff the army doesn't even need to have a strong defense, and besides going into pointless wars for the sake of maintaining the profitability and businesses of the Military Industrial Complex, there's also incredible waste in the defense department, with things being paid for many times over what they're really worth.
So, Democrats (or really, anyone), if you want a lot more money put into social programs and into fixing and building the infrastructure, then target the defense budget, and ask for a dramatic cut - and not just those bullshit "cuts from planned budget increases", which is just another way of saying they won't increase the waste much more than it already is, in the future.
- davidy123 13y agoThe army and military industries are huge employment and research organizations. Not efficient ones in the latter case, but there you go. You'd have to re-target all that employment and spending somewhere to make up for the hole, like, say, health and energy. Unfortunately other countries around the world may not make the same decision as you and the US would fall behind in certain capabilities, which may be important to have at some point.
- derefr 13y agoTo put it more bluntly, the DHS is a jobs program. We already have BI; you just have to hold a gun and let the government tell you what to do.