rightwinger
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Of course you want to kill the military. Military related products and services are the USA's #1 export (other than debt).
Democrats hate trade surpluses along with science.
Kill off the military? Emmy goes to you, Drama Queen. I never said "kill off" the military. I said cut military funding. We currently spend more than anyone.
We can afford to trim our military budget here and there.
I'd like America's primary export to be something besides war, thanks. How about we try to beat the Chinese at producing alternative energy solutions?
The military only makes up 25% of the federal Governments expenditures. Looking at Government entitlements favored by the left: Health 24%, pensions 22%, Welfare 13%, they hold the bigger piece of the problem. If we drastically cut welfare (for example), and made it uncomfortable for people to remain poor, they might actually become productive members of society. The United States Constitution after all says the Government is "to promote (not "provide") the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity"
I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
― Benjamin Franklin
Government Spending in United States: Federal State Local for 2011 - Charts Tables History
Has any nation in history ever gotten people out of poverty by making it "uncomfortable to be poor"?
How comfortable are Mexicos poor?