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I'm for bringing the soldiers home and cutting the defense budget, but the reality is the military is the only way out for so many people. Would you rather have them at least do something for their time, rather than sit at home, sell drugs, and collecting a welfare check for nothing at home? At least our military men and women are doing something. I think that funding needs to be cut for all the advanced toys the military has, and put that money towards more personnel and practical weapons and navy ships.
Bingo....money for actually doing something for it....what a concept...tell it to the Democrats.
I'm a freaking Libertarian, and I have said many negative things about Kerry on here. Just because someone doesn't believe that having a defense department with 3,000,000 people in it (who cost us taxpayers an average of $170,000 a year) doesn't mean they're a Democrat. Ron Paul agrees with me. So does Gary Johnson.
Excuse me? Are you actually saying that the enlisted boys (the majority of whom aren't uber-patriotic, but rather just confused 18 year olds who want money for college or simply don't know what to do with themselves) are more patriotic than those of us who went to college and used our educations to serve the country? Are you actually suggesting that I'm not a patriot?
I actually care about this country, which is why is angers me so much that people like you give our insane global military occupation a pass. We have troops in over 100 countries. Is that necessary? Why do we need 50,000+ troops in Germany when that country is quite possibly our biggest ally these days? I thought the Korean war ended in the 50s (well, it didn't technically start...but that's a different thread), so why the F do we still have thousands of troops stationed there?
When you people actually use your freaking brains, you may notice that our defense department is the majority of our budget deficit that can be cut. You can't cut a lot of other programs because too many people are dependent on them, but unless you support a socialist welfare program, you should be for cutting our defense department at least in half, if not cutting it to a third of its size. Otherwise, you're just another joke of a TEA Party member who believes that magical faeries will come down from Heaven and bless America with gold from the sky to pay for our insanely bloated defense department.
So you can't cut "other" programs because too many people depend on them? How many people "depend" on the military? All those idiot soldiers and their families and the business that supplies the food, trucks, equip etc. I could go on. You are making no sense. Reduce all the waste across the board and that would be a good start. Your ranting and raving about uneducated troops and the military being a welfare program is sad.
Clearly you're not able to read.
I'm not a Leftist...I'm a freaking Libertarian.
I actually served this country.
Tell me how Germany is of strategic importance to us to the point of $5,000,000,000 a year in just paying for the troops to be stationed there (you know, in a place where they contribute to the German economy instead of the American economy).
You know why you people get so much slack from those of us who are intellectually capable? It's this. You can't have an intellectual argument. You immediately start name-calling (left military haters) and making retarded assumptions (I served, yet I'm a military hater) and completely ignoring that this is an actually serious problem.
Tell me how the military is not just another socialist welfare program? 80% of those troops are completely unreleated to our defense, the majority of them are simply stationed somewhere for a few years and then use all the money we gave them as taxpayers to have a much easier life than they would have had if they had tried to make it in the real world.
We give any kid a job in the Military, nowadays we're giving GANG MEMBERS a perfect training ground for their business.
Also, illegal aliens...
Also, convicted felons
Finally, white supremacists.
So you do realize that because we feel the need to keep a standing military that's massively bloated, that we have to hire Gang Members, Illegal Aliens, Convicted Felons and White Supremacists, right? Do you support THOSE people being in the military?
I was in basic training with a couple of those "gang bangers" you are referring to. That is the only way they knew how to get out of the gang life. I guess in your world they should have just kept selling dope and contributed to society through the thug life. The military turned their life around. Your hatred of people who serve is quite disturbing especially coming from someone who they themselves say they served. It appears you think your above it all and everybody else is just some leech who joins. Why the held did you volunteer to begin with if you had to associate with all these idiot gang bangers and felons an illegals? One would think you would fit in better at some elitist university looking down on everyone and telling them how much better you are than they.
Tea party wants to kill infrastructure projects which creates jobs and help Us economy. but they support military spending.
Another tunnel to nowhere. You pay for the cost overruns if you want your little tunnel. This is the type of nonsense that needs to be cut with states have no money. Hey when times are good and the coffers are full and you want to "splurge" then have at it. Times are not good. People crying about their commute either need to leave earlier or move closer to their job. Expecting others to pay to make your life easier is pathetic.
Another tunnel to nowhere. You pay for the cost overruns if you want your little tunnel. This is the type of nonsense that needs to be cut with states have no money. Hey when times are good and the coffers are full and you want to "splurge" then have at it. Times are not good. People crying about their commute either need to leave earlier or move closer to their job. Expecting others to pay to make your life easier is pathetic.
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