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Dick Cheney says screw highways and food stamps, defense spending is all that matters
by Laura Clawson
Boy, Dick Cheney really is determined to caricature himself:
"That ought to be our top priority for spending. Not food stamps, not highways or anything else," Cheney said. "Your No. 1 responsibility as president is to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. {Obama} is the commander-in-chief and he's absolutely devastating the United States military today.
Since when are increasing the defense budget and supporting and defending the Constitution of the United States synonymous? I guess if that's Cheney's understanding of the Constitution, it might explain a thing or two. But, aside from the moral bankruptcy of his dismissal of feeding the hungry, let's talk logistics. Let's say you cease funding highways in order to buy more bombers and tanks. Do you then have to use the tanks' capacity for driving across rough ground to take them off-road from the factory to the military base? Do military recruits prove their mettle by hiking to boot camp? For that matter, let's get back to the food stamps for a second. Military food stamp use rose in 2013, and that doesn't even take into account all the veterans on food stamps. Except as we've had ample opportunity to observe, Dick Cheney doesn't give a single damn about the people who make up the American military. He just wants giant pallets of cash for defense contractors and an American political culture geared toward war rather than the economic strength of the nation and its people.
And, for the record, Mr. Cheney, American defense spending is still huge. Though maybe not quite as huge as your ego, your arrogance, your monumental callousness.
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)Awarded to Halliburton, of course.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)It's true.
Blue Owl
(50,356 posts)GFY Dick.
sheshe2
(83,751 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,683 posts)Especially this part, in Article 1, Section 8: "The Congress shall have the Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States."
Fuck that guy. While in most cases I don't approve of grave-dancing, I will make an exception for Ex-Vice-President Beelzebub. I hope I outlive him just so I can dance on and/or defile his grave. In fact, I bet they'll have to bury his undead corpse with a stake through his borrowed heart just so there won't be long lines of people waiting to pee on the sarcophagus. If there are any truly evil people in the world, he's one of them. If Satan is still in the business of buying souls, betcha anything he's got a bill of sale for Cheney's.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)Maybe someone should tell Dickface how the government works, he doesn't seem to know.
rustydog
(9,186 posts)Vincardog
(20,234 posts)Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)Other framers and early presidents believed that any standing military should be small.
freebrew
(1,917 posts)FUCK Dick Cheney.
OldRedneck
(1,397 posts). . . MAKE CERTAIN HALLIBURTON GETS THEIR SHARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
doxydad
(1,363 posts)Ignore that ignorant POS. He's a nobody.
shanti
(21,675 posts)who cares what you think? go cheney yourself.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)WTF is The Dick doing out in public so much anyway?
Triana
(22,666 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Fearless
(18,421 posts)Cartoonist
(7,316 posts)if only we had a few more aircraft carriers, dozens of fighter jets, some new submarines, and another thousand nuclear warheads.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)rbrnmw
(7,160 posts)to his undisclosed location never to be heard from again
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)PumpkinAle
(1,210 posts)and not even some of those go towards giving our military decent pay, no lets keep it all for weaponry you greedy, self-serving, dipshit hawk Cheney.
adieu
(1,009 posts)As long as we can get Dick Cheney into a tank and then shoot the crap out of it with drones and RPGS and railguns and ship-to-shore missiles and lasers shot from orbit.
rustbeltvoice
(430 posts)when that son-of-a-syphlitic-scrofulous-bitch croaks the final time
tclambert
(11,085 posts)Just a coincidence, I'm sure.
You do know that Eisenhower considered the interstate highway system critical to national security, right? But then, you probably don't think Eisenhower was a good Republican, either.
BootinUp
(47,143 posts)IkeRepublican
(406 posts)...is when one of his surgeries fails.
Know what I mean?
secondvariety
(1,245 posts)like he's finally gone around the bend. Hey Dick-go empty your drool cup.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)lastlib
(23,224 posts)eom
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)LoisB
(7,203 posts)DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)How nice of Cheney to publicly declare his support of hostile foreign invasion of our territory, hampering our military's ability to rapid respond to it, and hampering their ability in general to react to emergencies.
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Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Cheney has always made me sick and continues to do so.