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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumEver Notice how Defense is Sancrosanct?
Not even Bernie talks about cutting things like the F-35 project.
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Ever Notice how Defense is Sancrosanct? (Original Post)
speaktruthtopower
Feb 2016
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NRaleighLiberal
(59,233 posts)1. Eisenhower had something to say about this, didn't he?
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)2. Hillary won't touch it
Bernie has stated that he will cut the DoD budget.
VulgarPoet
(2,872 posts)3. To be fair, that does infuriate me about him.
The F-35's a waste of money, and if the sheer amount of fraud and waste in the military were properly investigated, we'd be able to chop spending at LEAST in half where the DoD's concerned.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)4. This guy's warning was not heeded...