08-18-2015, 04:17 PM
(08-18-2015, 03:11 PM)michaelsean Wrote: "Finally the government spends billions more in aid to corporations that it does in aid to the poor. Half of our budget goes to the military and we contract out a major portion of our military spending to private corporations."
(08-18-2015, 03:28 PM)fredtoast Wrote: 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
(08-18-2015, 03:52 PM)michaelsean Wrote: That's what I meant by in and of itself. Just selling military equipment isn't aid. I have no problem cutting the military. I'll bet there are billions that can be cut without anyone even noticing. then you make some harder decisions. Maybe i don't know enough, but it really doesn't seem necessary to have bases all over the world.
Well it took a minute to get here, but I think we all agree that we spend too much on our military.
