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Edwynn -> RE: USA Today (11/8/2012 9:53:43 PM)
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ORIGINAL: kdsub
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Fiscal Responsibility means cutting the defense budget
This is a bold assumption and not necessarily true. Properly funding our defense would be the choice of the majority of Americans. Even if that meant war bonds and tax increases. Only a few fanatics on the far left would arbitrarily cut the defense budget.... We've too many enemies. You will not see even a Democratically dominated Congress slash the defense budget in this world climate.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking all…even the majority of Democrats…do not want, demand, and believe in a strong military.
Butch
Where are you, mentally? In 1948 or 1958?
To the contrary there were even a few Republican congressman and more than a few Republican voters who were completely against the invasions in the early part of the century.
Why does this need to keep being repeated?
If you don't like enemies, then quit committing actions that create more of them (such as invasions of countries presenting no realistic threat to the US, nor in any practical sense to anyone else).
If you don't like poor people, then quit enacting laws and having policies that create more of them.
At the least, that would make for more cost effective government. The deficit would be far less than what it is now if we had the least bit of common sense.
Apparently it has escaped your notice, but the US has not done anything honestly 'in defense' for ages. It's been all about aggression, and making a pile of new enemies for some many years now.
Damn right we should cut any budgeting for that which continually worsens the US' standing in the world, and socks us with mountains of debt, which foreigners have to finance a large portion of.
Just how could any of that be considered as being for the security of the nation?
Quite the contrary.
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