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In reply to the discussion: "I'm a Republican and I'm angry." [View all]zeemike
(18,998 posts)45. Show me where that line is in the Budget.
The military budget is under the discretion of the CIC not micro managed by Congress.
The way you tell it every time a plane takes off congress has to approve money for it...which is bullshit.
We spend a million dollars a year to keep each prisoner there and you are telling us that sending them back to where they came would cost more?...for gods sake they could buy them a plane ticket back and let them fly commercial and save 990k.each...and first class too.
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You know, sometimes I really wonder if evolution threw us a curve and a surprise division
Drew Richards
Jan 2014
#2
Obama didn't say he'd close Gitmo without congress and end the wars as stupidily as they
uponit7771
Jan 2014
#29
And terribly misguided. Obviously fed and watered by constant exposure to Pox Noise.
calimary
Jan 2014
#24
NO WAY that was written by a Repub, because it's far too enlightenend, nuanced, and self-aware,
blkmusclmachine
Jan 2014
#21
Actually, Republicans are angry because they aren't represented either.
woo me with science
Jan 2014
#50