The Defense Industry layoffs begin!

[Mr. Shaman]

Things are going to crash hard - again.

That's what Porky Limbaugh says, huh????

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[NYcarbineer]

Why is it that most of the people who yell the loudest about how we need smaller government yell even louder as soon as defense cuts land on the table?

 

[Staidhup]

It's going to be difficult, if not impossible, to balance the budget if we don't cut back on defense spending.

List of countries by military expenditures - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Are you aware that the U.S. spends 41% of the world's total defense expenditures? We spend $711 billion annually on defense. That's 5 times what the #2 country (China) spends on defense. How do you consider that sustainable, in the longterm? Particularly when we have a 1.6 trillion deficit?

Would it work in your house to keep spending money you didn't have as your debt continued to expand exponentially?

Yep, gut defense in the name of "social progress, right. So, do I care about what others spend on national defense? Hell no! because one American Life has no set value. But the real question is, Einstein what percent of our national budget is defense, and what percent is entitlements and discretionary spending?

 

[spectrumc01]

Stop giving to the military, we all know private citizens can run it better. The Government can't even run the post office how are they going to run the top military in the world? Privatize the military before it is too late.

That is a terrible idea.

A military force that is run by not the government, but private enterprise, is a force that holds loyalty not to the United States, but to the person who signs their checks. They would become nothing more than guns for hire, and what happens when another country offers them more money?

Note the laughing face, it was a joke. wow