Obama would rather spend military money on foodstamps

[ScreamingEagle]

Former vice president Dick Cheney went on Fox's "Hannity" show last night to discuss the recent plans to reduce the Army to levels not seen since 1940 — through a reduction in personnel and removing a class of warplanes from the field — in an effort to cut budgets after a decade of war, calling the decision "over the top." He told host Sean Hannity that President Obama would "much rather spend the money on food stamps than he would on a strong military or support for our troops.”

Cheney says Obama would rather have food stamps than a strong military

What Cheney says is true...
What jobs are the 120,000 or so troops going to find after they are cut by Obama...?
The economy is still in the dumps.....so many will have to resort to foodstamps....
We will have more unemployed people down-in-the-dumps instead of proudly serving our country....

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Our military is the same size as the next 25 nations combined, and 24 of those are allies. We can spare the cash.

 

[Redfish]

Our military is the same size as the next 25 nations combined, and 24 of those are allies. We can spare the cash.

So, we put thousands of soldiers on unemployment, cause thousands more to be laid off by defence contractors and added to the unemplyment rolls, and weaken our ability to protect american interests-------------brilliant

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Our military is the same size as the next 25 nations combined, and 24 of those are allies. We can spare the cash.

So, we put thousands of soldiers on unemployment, cause thousands more to be laid off by defence contractors and added to the unemplyment rolls, and weaken our ability to protect american interests-------------brilliant

When China attacks California, you can call them up. Flying half way across the world to fight a war isn't protecting America, it's protecting American Business Interests, and we are very tired of fighting wars we can''t win.

 

[Dutch]

20% of federal funding to the military versus 2% to foodstamps. Yeah I'd say that is a valid comparison.

 

[DiamondDave]

The government is charged to fund the military... it is not charged to give you your gubmint cheez

 

[ScreamingEagle]

Our military is the same size as the next 25 nations combined, and 24 of those are allies. We can spare the cash.

So, we put thousands of soldiers on unemployment, cause thousands more to be laid off by defence contractors and added to the unemplyment rolls, and weaken our ability to protect american interests-------------brilliant

When China attacks California, you can call them up. Flying half way across the world to fight a war isn't protecting America, it's protecting American Business Interests, and we are very tired of fighting wars we can''t win.

both China and Russia are building up their military.....so is it Obama's idea to let them win since 'we can't win'...?

 

[Dutch]

You guysl love to espouse the founding fathers whenever it suits your agenda so tell me what they would think of todays military?

Today, we have much of what the founders would have feared most: a totally professional force, largely unrepresentative of American society, increasingly alienated from the public it is supposed to serve, huge in size, gluttonously expensive, more heavily and lethally armed than any other force in the world, deployed all across the globe all of the time, a source of recurring provocation and adventurism, principally prepared for a preferred American way of war that is no longer relevant, continuously guilty over time of socially and politically irresponsible behaviors (from combat atrocities to internal sexual assault), and singularly at the forefront of both global and domestic militarization (not least by virtue of America’s place as the world’s leading arms dealer).

Why the Founding Fathers Would Object to Today?s Military - Defense One

 

[The Rabbi]

No nation has ever cut its military and achieved greatness.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

No nation has ever cut its military and achieved greatness.

We've cut ours many times. We aren't supposed to have a Standing Army remember? It's in the Constitution.

 

[Desperado]

What Cheney says is true...
What jobs are the 120,000 or so troops going to find after they are cut by Obama...?
The economy is still in the dumps.....so many will have to resort to foodstamps....
We will have more unemployed people down-in-the-dumps instead of proudly serving our country....

So what you are saying is that our military is nothing more than a jobs program?
I guess that's what happens when you base your economy on perennial war.
Maybe, we should have used our resources on the space program or finding an alternate fuel so that we could actually tell the Arabs what to do with their oil.

 

[bodecea]

Our military is the same size as the next 25 nations combined, and 24 of those are allies. We can spare the cash.

Yes we can. However, it needs to be put towards paying off our debt.

 

[The Rabbi]

No nation has ever cut its military and achieved greatness.

We've cut ours many times. We aren't supposed to have a Standing Army remember? It's in the Constitution.

Which part of the COnstitution forbids a standing army?

 

[PaintMyHouse]

What Cheney says is true...
What jobs are the 120,000 or so troops going to find after they are cut by Obama...?
The economy is still in the dumps.....so many will have to resort to foodstamps....
We will have more unemployed people down-in-the-dumps instead of proudly serving our country....

So what you are saying is that our military is nothing more than a jobs program?
I guess that's what happens when you base your economy on perennial war.
Maybe, we should have used our resources on the space program or finding an alternate fuel so that we could actually tell the Arabs what to do with their oil.

What''s the fun in that? There's no glory in doing what actually helps society. Old Blood and Guts is the American way.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

No nation has ever cut its military and achieved greatness.

We've cut ours many times. We aren't supposed to have a Standing Army remember? It's in the Constitution.

Which part of the COnstitution forbids a standing army?

Read the damn thing for yourself. Start with Google.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Our military is the same size as the next 25 nations combined, and 24 of those are allies. We can spare the cash.

Yes we can. However, it needs to be put towards paying off our debt.

Lower spending, Raise taxes, and Grow the economy. There is no way (good) out without doing all three, at the very same time.

We could of course just let the house of cards fall. That seems likely based on our politics.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Our military is the same size as the next 25 nations combined, and 24 of those are allies. We can spare the cash.

So, we put thousands of soldiers on unemployment, cause thousands more to be laid off by defence contractors and added to the unemplyment rolls, and weaken our ability to protect american interests-------------brilliant

What American interests won't we be able to protect with the smaller military?

 

[The Rabbi]

Our military is the same size as the next 25 nations combined, and 24 of those are allies. We can spare the cash.

Yes we can. However, it needs to be put towards paying off our debt.

Lower spending, Raise taxes, and Grow the economy. There is no way (good) out without doing all three, at the very same time.

We could of course just let the house of cards fall. That seems likely based on our politics.

What would you like to see cut? How do you propose to grow the economy and raise taxes?
This ought to be good.

 

[DiamondDave]

Our military is the same size as the next 25 nations combined, and 24 of those are allies. We can spare the cash.

Yes we can. However, it needs to be put towards paying off our debt.

Lower spending, Raise taxes, and Grow the economy. There is no way (good) out without doing all three, at the very same time.

We could of course just let the house of cards fall. That seems likely based on our politics.

Well.. except you only want to raise taxes on SOME.... showing the support for unequal treatment by government is OK when it benefits you and your cause...

And raising taxes does not grow the economy

 

[bodecea]

Our military is the same size as the next 25 nations combined, and 24 of those are allies. We can spare the cash.

So, we put thousands of soldiers on unemployment, cause thousands more to be laid off by defence contractors and added to the unemplyment rolls, and weaken our ability to protect american interests-------------brilliant

So...what we have here is Redfish admitting that we are in thrall to the military-industrial complex. War is good business, eh?