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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWAY TOO MUCH PIE for the military, nothing left for US
I want MORE PIE!
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)should be included in the "Military"...which of course makes the obscenely unbalanced picture even worse.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)... just what is the defense budget defending?
CrispyQ
(36,462 posts)Sadly, they don't see that the answer is "It's a ruse, to siphon the Treasury to the 1%," even though this chart is proof of that.
avebury
(10,952 posts)You know that they have to be looking for a way to use the military internally at some point.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,454 posts)While speaking at a fundraiser in Tennessee, Paul said about Christie and New York Representative Peter King, Theyre precisely the same people who are unwilling to cut the spending, and their Gimme, gimme, gimmegive me all my Sandy money now. Those are the people who are bankrupting the government and not letting enough money be left over for national defense.
http://www.forwardprogressives.com/rand-paul-mocks-hurricane-sandy-victims-eliminates-any-chance-at-a-presidential-bid/
LisaLynne
(14,554 posts)Just look at all those other colors that aren't military spending! Why are we starving our military???
darkangel218
(13,985 posts)How can we possibly spend so much money on Military when everything else is falling apart?
Schools are being closed down, hospitals lose their funding, health care is getting more and more expensive, our roads and bridges are colapsing? Wtf is going on? Why arent more people demanding a cut in military spendings?? Is it "unpatriotic" to want that? Is that it?
avebury
(10,952 posts)world dominance is via military might. If you look at history, things change, one group will rise up to power, maintain power and then go into decline and the next group will rise up and go through the same cycle. It is time that we recognize that our time of global dominance is passing and we had better focus on trying to rebuild our country from within. We have become the neighborhood bully that we have fought against for decades.
darkangel218
(13,985 posts)The Congress votes the budget spendings, right?
avebury
(10,952 posts)fear mongering to the point that way too many people have lost the concept of common sense. In addition, Congress does not give a hoot what the people want, they will do what they want to do.
CrispyQ
(36,462 posts)It's disgraceful. This is not just at the feet of Obama, it's the entire nation. I know many people who would look at that & ask, "What's the problem?"
LisaLynne
(14,554 posts)understand how ANYONE -- ANYONE -- can think it makes sense. Yeah, sure, some people support this because they are making money off of it -- they are getting chunks of that dark blue slice. But, even so, come on. It's just so ... insane I can't even wrap my head around it.
raccoon
(31,110 posts)moondust
(19,979 posts)back in the USSR!
Spending wayyyy too much on the military was one of the big reasons, if not the biggest, for the long decline and ultimate collapse of the USSR. But hey, it made them a "superpower"!
As for the US, I don't know if it's about politicians' insatiable hunger for destructive power, rewarding their cronies and home districts with defense contracts, keeping the wheels of capitalist industry from grinding to a halt, domination of the planet and unilateral assured destruction, or something else. Probably some combination of things.