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If we can't afford to educate our children, to heal our sick or tend to our elderly, just what is it the defense budget is defending?
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It's defending AMERICA, god dammit! It's defending our FREEDOM (to underfund schools,
pampango
Mar 2016
#5
I don't see the rest of the world welcoming our interference, but the MIC and their stooges ...
Scuba
Mar 2016
#22
Like the Iraq war vote? Passing of the Patriot Act? All those vast defense budgets?
villager
Mar 2016
#64
Clinton is the MIC's best friend. And the neocons have all endorsed her. She
rhett o rick
Mar 2016
#99
PROFITS for the banks, MIC, and every other crooked corporation under the sun.
onecaliberal
Mar 2016
#35
Agree. Let's get a Progressive congress elected, and get the bills to a Presidents desk.
Amimnoch
Mar 2016
#38
Your inability to recognize reality doesn't make me untruthful...
ConservativeDemocrat
Mar 2016
#112
It's defending the distribution of wealth from the middle class and below to the 1%. As pols like..
whereisjustice
Mar 2016
#114
The 1%'s strangle-hold on the world economy with their foot on our necks.
southerncrone
Mar 2016
#121
Defending the rights of the Clinton class to send jobs to Asia while...
whereisjustice
Mar 2016
#128