This is why Republicans always waste the majority of our money in the name of "defense"
President Obama has targeted the Department of Defense to absorb more than 80 percent of the cuts he has proposed in next year's budget for discretionary programs.
The White House identified a total of $17 billion in spending cuts, including cuts in mandatory programs that mostly involve entitlements.
"We can no longer afford to spend as if deficits do not matter and waste is not our problem," Mr. Obama said.
The defense cuts send "a very clear signal that this administration is not going to be as forceful on national security issues as the previous administration. I think that's pretty clear," said Sen. Saxby Chambliss, Georgia Republican.
See!!! So Republicans will waste our/your money if they ever get back into power. They just won't call it waste. They'll call it "DEFENSE". But we all know what it is.
I've seen that too. Most conservatives are all on cutting spending until you mention defense related spending, then they suddenly are all for big spending. So when you get right down for it, they really don't want to cut spending, they just want to cut the programs that provide for the elderly and poorer.
I've said it before and I'll say it again.
We should pull ALL our military out of foreign countries, that said, we should have the most modern and deadly weapons on the planet. we should be able to repel any and all attacks with overwhelming force and superior weaponry. We need not spend our money and the blood of our soldiers defending other countries. That alone will save billions a year. We should then have our Army and Marines standing post on our borders. we should have our Navy patrolling our waters. We need to make this country impervious to attack. By doing so we would also make it next to impossible for illegal immigrants to enter the country. drug smuggling would be all but eliminated.
How much money do you think that would save. Our educational resources would not be wasted on non citizens. Medical facilities would not be overrun by immigrants with no means to pay for care. We would not waste time and money investigating crimes done by illegals.
How much money is spent trying to keep drugs out of the country? Put the military on the borders and save hundreds of billions.
And what kind of fucking hypocrite is Obama? He plans to run multi-trillion dollar deficits for years to come and yet he says that deficits are a problem not to be ignored. He is just another power hungry corrupt politician talking out both sides of his mouth and his ass all at the same time.
and are both of you so fucking stuck in your dogma that you can't see that I am not a conservative as you define the term?
I seem to remember SKULLPILOT as being one of the most staunch right wingers last year.
Maybe you are distancing yourself from the GOP now that it is an embarrassment to be a member? Anyways, I'll try to remember.
Anyways, I can't argue with your post. Except for your spin on Obama. He is great. So far anyways.
And Thom Hartman was explaining yesterday that FDR and Kennedy both had to be pushed to do some of their greatest accomplishments. I don't remember the specifics on what Kennedy and FDR had to be "pushed" into doing, but the prez is only going to do so much on his own. As far as obama is concerned, they were referring to how he is subsodizing GM while GM sends jobs overseas. Solviing this problem is probably not something Obama wants to do. Does it call for ending NAFTA? Does it call for PROTECTIONISM??? Isolationism? He's already got his hands full with the healthcare giants.
Anyways, back to Obama's spending. Bush didn't build the great defense that you speak of. What he did instead was blow a lot of money in the name of defense.
Now Obama is going to spend in and on America. You got a problem with that? Too bad. Our team won. This is where we want to spend our money. Yes, OUR money. You may not approve but I didn't approve of all your defense spending. And that spending ended up offshore. Obama's money will circulate inside America. In other words, it is stimulative. And have you been to China? Makes America look like a 3rd world country.
Also, Obama is spending a lot extending unemployment benefits. Do you not approve?
And didn't you get $300 from the stimulative bill? Why are you complaining? That's a tax break!!! So part of the bill that you call wasteful spending is giving you money back!!!
So you don't approve of getting a tax break, extending unemployment in the worst recession since the great depression or rebuilding America's infrastructure.
What a fucking patriot.