08-18-2015, 03:28 PM
(08-18-2015, 01:18 PM)michaelsean Wrote: I don't think you can call purchasing military equipment from corporations in and of itself aid. They are purchasing something.
The problem is that we are spending and wasting much more than we need to on military spending. It is a much bigger slush fund than the small amount we spend on helping out the poor.
To many conservatives want to balance the budgetr by cutting out a few million we give to people who are desperate and need the help instead of the billions that we waste on military spending.
The United States military is more than twice as powerful as any other nation on earth, yet Republicans just added $36 billion a year in "emergency" military spending to get around the rules they set in the sequester. They want to scream about the poor eating food other than bread and water, but at the same time they won't to increase by billions the amount they are pouring into the pockets of Lockheed Martin and other private companies for stuff we don't even need.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/gop-plays-budget-games-increase-defense-spending
