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Bush to Seek About $80 Bln for Military Operations
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Tommie Hu$tle
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Man I wonder who is going to pay for all this?
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I cannot type the sad face enough.
I cannot type the sad face enough.
judy woodruff had senate minority leader harry reid on "inside politics" today and was basically lambasting him because he was against the cutting of "humanatarian" funds that so many americans use each and every day.
this fucking bitch pulled out the, "well, you criticized the president for having defecits, and now he's trying to fix the problem, and you're not willing to cut some projects -- isn't that a bit of a contradiction?"
i nearly wanted to get up off the couch and punch her illuminated ass.
this fucking bitch pulled out the, "well, you criticized the president for having defecits, and now he's trying to fix the problem, and you're not willing to cut some projects -- isn't that a bit of a contradiction?"
i nearly wanted to get up off the couch and punch her illuminated ass.
Will this put the total for the war over $200 billion yet? We will spend over a quarter of a TRILLION dollars on Iraq before the end of next year. And I bet you that total is a hell of a lot higher when you factor in what part of the defense budget's retarded $400B pork barrel bonanza is being spent there already. We spend more on war than we do on peace. I got called a hippy peacenik dove for slagging this war off in early 2003. HA! Sucks to be right sometimes. To put it in perspective,
Education is increasing from $55.7B to $57.3B from 2004-5. A 3% increase.
Defense is increasing from $375.3 to $401.7B from 2004-5. A 7.1% increase.
The defense budget got bumped by half the total education budget. And it's a bigger percent increase no less. Realistically, only Soc. Security and Medicare eat up more of our budget, and those serve a hell of a lot more people than the 3M idiots employed by the military. If $400B a year isn't enough to take care of our military, maybe it's not worth having one. Oh, but god forbid we do that, the Commies will attack. :rollies: Take a look at the budget and where the cuts are taking place. Agriculture and the like are all gonna get shorted.
This is the new priority list for this country:
And I see the administration is still using pie-in-the-sky math to pretend the budget deficit will disappear miraculously:
Civilization is the ultimate loser here.
BTW, am I the only person disturbed by the continued praise of the military as heroes? I mean, ABC had some reach around story today about the military installing plumbing and stuff like that. I'm like, no fucking shit. When you break something, you're sometimes expected to fix it. The post-war cleanup isn't some humanitarian mission. It's fixing the damage we did, and we're not doing a good job of that either. When will we start calling a spade a spade? War is stupid. People who perpetuate it are the worst kind of evil imagineable. And what's saddest of all, the douches behind this one are fucking chickenhawk cowards. I don't view soldiers as heroes. I find nothing glamarous about war. Military weaponry is cool as hell, but just for the engineering of it. The application is disgusting. PEACE.
EDIT: Oh yeah, they should stop calling it "discretionary" spending now. There's absolutely no discretion. Congress won't stop it, they approve this stuff to get funding for their own pet projects. Our government is not one for or of the people.
Education is increasing from $55.7B to $57.3B from 2004-5. A 3% increase.
Defense is increasing from $375.3 to $401.7B from 2004-5. A 7.1% increase.
The defense budget got bumped by half the total education budget. And it's a bigger percent increase no less. Realistically, only Soc. Security and Medicare eat up more of our budget, and those serve a hell of a lot more people than the 3M idiots employed by the military. If $400B a year isn't enough to take care of our military, maybe it's not worth having one. Oh, but god forbid we do that, the Commies will attack. :rollies: Take a look at the budget and where the cuts are taking place. Agriculture and the like are all gonna get shorted.
This is the new priority list for this country:
And I see the administration is still using pie-in-the-sky math to pretend the budget deficit will disappear miraculously:
Civilization is the ultimate loser here.BTW, am I the only person disturbed by the continued praise of the military as heroes? I mean, ABC had some reach around story today about the military installing plumbing and stuff like that. I'm like, no fucking shit. When you break something, you're sometimes expected to fix it. The post-war cleanup isn't some humanitarian mission. It's fixing the damage we did, and we're not doing a good job of that either. When will we start calling a spade a spade? War is stupid. People who perpetuate it are the worst kind of evil imagineable. And what's saddest of all, the douches behind this one are fucking chickenhawk cowards. I don't view soldiers as heroes. I find nothing glamarous about war. Military weaponry is cool as hell, but just for the engineering of it. The application is disgusting. PEACE.
EDIT: Oh yeah, they should stop calling it "discretionary" spending now. There's absolutely no discretion. Congress won't stop it, they approve this stuff to get funding for their own pet projects. Our government is not one for or of the people.
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Man.
Someday I hope i can be in a position to use the term "about 80 billion" in a non humorous way.
Someday I hope i can be in a position to use the term "about 80 billion" in a non humorous way.
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Pimpwerx said:
To a certian extent yeah, there are heroes and villians in everything. For example that kid who killed that cop in Cali was a "hero" before he did that. I'm sure nothing changed in his personality make up. By and large from the guys that I work around they have an honest to goodness belief that in America and they want to protect America. I think many of them are dissapointed that they are being used in a situation that has no "end game" no victory as it were. The military's issue is that they are paid to do not to think. They trust that the thinking has been done from the top is correct, they don't question the rightness or wrongness of it and maybe they should but, once you have a military that questions the leadership you don't have an effective military. Heroes and villans work for a simple minded folk and it keep the morale back home up. Morale here is always going to be the same and I don't think the government or the citizens at home personally care how military personnel feel. People at home feel like they are doing the soliders a favor if they say they support the troops. The don't realize that supporting the troops means to insure that the troops are used judiciously and with a clear cut goal. They can meet any goal it just has to be defined clearly.
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Tommie Hu$tle said:
Well said.
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