So we should screw over the people defending America but not the ones taking advantage of the system that are on welfare?
Cut welfare first. Welfare recipients are equivalent to a job that pays around $11 an hour.
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Are you stupid? The US defense budget is more than the next 20 largest militaries combined. Welfare spending comes no where close to defense spending. The freaking Iraq war cost over $100 million dollars per day.
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Well put. Welfare is killing us slowly from the inside, but few people can say it.
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You're so wrong it's painful.
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Explain?
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Saying cutting welfare money is like saying cutting funding to the bee keepers guild will help, it won't. The US defense budget is the biggest contributed to our debt, it's budget is higher than the next 20 largest militaries combined, and those two dumb ass wars cost around $100 million per day EACH. Do you think there is any room for cuts there? Republicans in congress just allocated funding for the production for 300 tanks the military said they DO NOT NEED. There's millions of dollars waisted right there.
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I agree with you on the tanks and the other unnecessary brownie-point defense bills. I saw your other reply to my post. But the problem is that when you tell Congress (Republicans included) to cut defense spending, they take the easy route and cut the vital parts of the military because that's the easy way. The issue isn't the cuts themselves, but rather the fact that they can't be trusted to do it correctly.
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What do you consider vital?
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The troops themselves, pension for vets, equipment, fuel/supplies, transport, and aerial/naval support for the troops, all of which have been cut in some way or another in the last 5 years.
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Most people who actually introduce legislation to fix things like the mess that is the VA are democrats. Remember the Zadroga bill, or the veterans benefit bill introduced a few months a go that was filibustered by senate republicans.
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Well, I tend to avoid the Dems/Reps-are-better-than-Reps/Dems argument (I'm an Indepenent). However, I beg you to remember how much hell the Dems [i]weren't[/i] raising about the military sequester, along with the fact that Obama signed off on it. Both sides have hurt the military equally due to their political posturing; no side is less guilty.
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But the sequester was supposed to be something that both sides hate, but if you remember when the deadline was approaching republicans started to say it was going to be actually good for the economy. Now I'm from Maryland and we have a lot of government and military jobs and thanks to the sequester unemployment jumped 0.3% last month. I agree there are things we should not cut, and I don't think anyone on the left seriously thought this was a good thing.
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I'm just telling you what I saw coming from the left. BTW, some of the better parts of Cleveland and Dayton rely on the NASA Glenn facility and Wright AFB, so I understand where you're coming from with the unemployment issues.
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Defending from what?
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I agree wit your last statement, however, we are not saying to cut all of it, we are only cutting useless portions that we have no use in.