Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired is a theft from those who hunger but are not fed & who are cold but are not clothed

[basquebromance]

a 1% increase in military spending results in 9% decrease in economic growth. clear choices for voters

 

[rightwinger]

It is the old Economic “Guns vs Butter” argument

The US has always sided with guns as we allow our social programs to suffer

 

[kyzr]

It is the old Economic “Guns vs Butter” argument

The US has always sided with guns as we allow our social programs to suffer

What social programs are suffering? I call Bullshit. Welfare and Medicaid are fully funded. That's the deficit problem.

 

[LibertyKid]

Sucks that in our modern day, that world leaders result to War.

How about we also stop providing aid to countries that don't need it. US is obligated to give 47 Billion dollars in aid this year.
Why the hell are we giving Canada 32 million in aid?
The below website is great. Browse and see how much we have committed to countries all over the world.

FA.gov

ForeignAssistance.gov is the U.S. government’s flagship website for making U.S. foreign assistance data available to the public. It serves as the central resource for budgetary and financial data produced by U.S. government agencies that manage foreign assistance portfolios.

www.foreignassistance.gov

 

[Anathema]

a 1% increase in military spending results in 9% decrease in economic growth. clear choices for voters

Yep. We need a probably 60% reduction in military spending and a 100% reduction in social welfare spending at the Federal level.

 

[LibertyKid]

It is the old Economic “Guns vs Butter” argument

The US has always sided with guns as we allow our social programs to suffer

We need a military. There are crazy world leaders that do stupid shit.

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

a 1% increase in military spending results in 9% decrease in economic growth. clear choices for voters

The millionaire socialist opens his mouth and bullshit tumbles out. The Military is the mentioned in the Constitution. The avalanche of entitlements this moron expects the tax payer to fund is not. The US spends more on crap that is not in Constitution than for the things that are.

 

[occupied]

Social programs are revolution insurance so that something trickles down in our plutocratic nation. The rich are not going to ever fund any program above the bare minimum it takes to keep the lid on the pressure cooker.

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

It is the old Economic “Guns vs Butter” argument

The US has always sided with guns as we allow our social programs to suffer

The US spends more on SS and Medicare than it does on the military. Two programs that are not mentioned in the Constitution get more tax payer money than that is.

 

[Vastator]

It is the old Economic “Guns vs Butter” argument

The US has always sided with guns as we allow our social programs to suffer

Fuck "social programs". Let the weak perish...

 

[kyzr]

The US spends more on SS and Medicare than it does on the military. Two programs that are not mentioned in the Constitution get more tax payer money than that is.

Wrong. We paid for SS & Medicare.

I think you mean Welfare and Medicaid. Those are free to the "poor".

 

[BertramN]

a 1% increase in military spending results in 9% decrease in economic growth. clear choices for voters

The only economic growth important in the United States is that of the billionaires. The 330 million+ peasants can go pi$$ up a rope.

The congressional Republicans and their "opponents", the moderate Democrats in both chambers, are all stooges serving only the billionaires. It's been this way since Reagan sold the suckers his "Trickledown" snake oil in the 1980s.




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[Vastator]

Wrong. We paid for SS & Medicare.

I think you mean welfare and Medicaid. Those are free to the "poor".

"We" pay for all these programs, one way, or another; whether we want to, or not...

 

[kyzr]

"We" pay for all these programs, one way, or another; whether we want to, or not...

The poor don't. The bottom half of incomes don't pay very much income tax.

 

[merrill]

a 1% increase in military spending results in 9% decrease in economic growth. clear choices for voters

It is the governments that want to takeover somewhere else not the people. The people get along with most other people which is because we people want to get along with each other.

Controlling the world oil supply is a huge driver of war as is funding the military industrial complex. Then other natural resources come in that are necessary to corporate America.

Thus war cannot be justified as way way more innocent soldiers mothers, fathers, children are killed as the white collars sit back in their suits and ties and such keep demanding more war.

Too many presidents have started wars to distract from their political screw ups and because they believe it makes them look tough.

The people everywhere never want war it is the governments that declare war at the expense of innocent soldiers mothers, fathers, children etc etc etc.

 

[Blues Man]

It is the old Economic “Guns vs Butter” argument

The US has always sided with guns as we allow our social programs to suffer

The problem is that our military is no longer for the defense of our own country but everyone else's

And we're shitty mercenaries because we don't gat paid for defending everyone else's countries.

 

[merrill]

Millions upon millions upon millions of republicans love their SSI and Medicare Insurance as do democrats. So do I. These are free we paid for all of it ....yes even medicare is paid for every month as it is deducted for SSI checks. SSI and Medicare are earned.

Whereas corporate subsidies of all sorts are the real entitlements.

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

Wrong. We paid for SS & Medicare.

I think you mean Welfare and Medicaid. Those are free to the "poor".

SS and medicare pay out more than they take in.

Why Cut Social Security and Medicare? Here’s Why.

Leaders take on the problems they are charged with solving, being upfront about the costs and benefits of each option while not forgetting that inaction isn’t one of them. Now we just need to find some leaders.

www.forbes.com

 

[martybegan]

Social programs are revolution insurance so that something trickles down in our plutocratic nation. The rich are not going to ever fund any program above the bare minimum it takes to keep the lid on the pressure cooker.

While the government types you support use good old fashioned secret police and violence to keep the lid down.

Social welfare programs are giant make work programs for middling bureaucrats that measure "success" by how much money they spend, not on any actual results they get.

 

[occupied]

The problem is that our military is no longer for the defense of our own country but everyone else's

And we're shitty mercenaries because we don't gat paid for defending everyone else's countries.

Our military keeps things stable for international trade and resource extraction. We get paid after a fashion or at least our big business interests do.