President declares: Every gun that is made, every warship launched is a theft from the hungry

[rightwinger]

More social programs , welfare, handouts, and redistribution is what this country needs ...

For the people comrades !!!

Isn't it better to spend our money on the good of the people than to waste it on a war machine?

 

[Luddly Neddite]

When the Soviet Union fell, contrary to the belief system of many, defense spending fell and fell and kept falling.

It wasn't until we were horribly attacked that it went back up.

Hell, in Europe, protected by the powerful United States, average defense spending is from our European allies in NATO is running at 1.6%.

YOu remove immediate threats and First World democratic societies will be happy to spend the money elsewhere.

We have a larger military than the next ten countries combined.....who is the threat?

Other nations seem to understand they can build schools, hospitals and feed their people while we build bigger and better military hardware

And yet, some want even more outdated equipment to fight unnecessary ground wars.

The same people want more death and destruction also want vets to go hungry and homeless.

And of course, they fight against every single measure to help the poor improve their lot.

 

[Hossfly]

The man couldn't even dress himself. He had a valet do it

Link to proof he could not dress himself.

 

[SwimExpert]

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This is, I repeat, the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. … Is there no other way the world may live?



Great speech by a great President



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Cool story, bro. So....what's the point? Is Obama calling for Congress to reduce military spending and redirect it toward building new schools and power plants, and farm land development? If so, I might agree (somewhat). Or is he just complaining?

Oh, and why are you sucking his dick?

 

[whitehall]

What if you use the dreaded tools to liberate the hungry? Did the former community agitator ever think of that? How about the fact that U.S. war production during WW2 brought the Country out of the depression that FDR presided over for three terms in office?

 

[Luddly Neddite]

More social programs , welfare, handouts, and redistribution is what this country needs ...

For the people comrades !!!

Isn't it better to spend our money on the good of the people than to waste it on a war machine?

WWII, most of the rest of the world made that decision while the US started on a long road of harming our own country.

This documentary is a real eye opener.

Money-Driven Medicine

 

[rightwinger]

When the Soviet Union fell, contrary to the belief system of many, defense spending fell and fell and kept falling.

It wasn't until we were horribly attacked that it went back up.

Hell, in Europe, protected by the powerful United States, average defense spending is from our European allies in NATO is running at 1.6%.

YOu remove immediate threats and First World democratic societies will be happy to spend the money elsewhere.

We have a larger military than the next ten countries combined.....who is the threat?

Other nations seem to understand they can build schools, hospitals and feed their people while we build bigger and better military hardware

And yet, some want even more outdated equipment to fight unnecessary ground wars.

The same people want more death and destruction also want vets to go hungry and homeless.

And of course, they fight against every single measure to help the poor improve their lot.

Ask for money to improve our infrastructure, healthcare, education and we can't afford it

Ask to build a new Carrier task force and they jump all over themselves to find the money

 

[Porker]

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Other nations seem to understand they can build schools, hospitals and feed their people while we build bigger and better military hardware

Meanwhile, we build dumbdown institutions of little or NO LEARNING. And pay the wienies to suck on the government teat more and more and more. By the way how much will that one way trip to Mars we are preparing for cost those poor hongry souls who exist ONLY on our tax dollars? Free of charge to those who qualify...which seems to be most who apply.

 

[rightwinger]

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Other nations seem to understand they can build schools, hospitals and feed their people while we build bigger and better military hardware

Meanwhile, we build dumbdown institutions of little or NO LEARNING. And pay the wienies to suck on the government teat more and more and more. By the way how much will that one way trip to Mars we are preparing for cost those poor hongry souls who exist ONLY on our tax dollars? Free of charge to those who qualify...which seems to be most who apply.

Again we get attacks on education from the right while we pump billions into needless weapons systems

 

[rightwinger]

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Clearly, for every hard working Immigrant that comes to these shores we need to deport one Progressive

 

[Porker]

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Other nations seem to understand they can build schools, hospitals and feed their people while we build bigger and better military hardware

Meanwhile, we build dumbdown institutions of little or NO LEARNING. And pay the wienies to suck on the government teat more and more and more. By the way how much will that one way trip to Mars we are preparing for cost those poor hongry souls who exist ONLY on our tax dollars? Free of charge to those who qualify...which seems to be most who apply.

Again we get attacks on education from the right while we pump billions into needless weapons systems

That wasn't an attack pretty boy...that is what is happening under Obama who loves to take golfing vacations in Hawaii with the entire Obama clan at a cost of millions and millions of dollars, while the HONGRY starves. Did you ever notice those fat, well fed mommas at the grocery store paying for their stockpile of food with my tax dollars? Did you ever notice that? While sporting their expensive hair weaves and jewelry which my taxes also paid for? Then there is that quick stop at the spohtin' good store to pick Junior up a pair of new Jordans. Then they go home in a car that cost thousands of dollars more than what I'm driving. Did you ever notice that? Keep on dishing out your bullshit "left winger".

 

[Lonestar_logic]

When the Soviet Union fell, contrary to the belief system of many, defense spending fell and fell and kept falling.

It wasn't until we were horribly attacked that it went back up.

Hell, in Europe, protected by the powerful United States, average defense spending is from our European allies in NATO is running at 1.6%.

YOu remove immediate threats and First World democratic societies will be happy to spend the money elsewhere.

We have a larger military than the next ten countries combined.....who is the threat?

Other nations seem to understand they can build schools, hospitals and feed their people while we build bigger and better military hardware

911

How did that work out?
A military larger than the next ten nations combined

Almost 3000 dead Americans. That's how it worked out.

 

[rightwinger]

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Other nations seem to understand they can build schools, hospitals and feed their people while we build bigger and better military hardware

Meanwhile, we build dumbdown institutions of little or NO LEARNING. And pay the wienies to suck on the government teat more and more and more. By the way how much will that one way trip to Mars we are preparing for cost those poor hongry souls who exist ONLY on our tax dollars? Free of charge to those who qualify...which seems to be most who apply.

Again we get attacks on education from the right while we pump billions into needless weapons systems

That wasn't an attack pretty boy...that is what is happening under Obama who loves to take golfing vacations in Hawaii with the entire Obama clan at a cost of millions and millions of dollars, while the HONGRY starves. Did you ever notice those fat, well fed mommas at the grocery store paying for their stockpile of food with my tax dollars? Did you ever notice that? While sporting their expensive hair weaves and jewelry which my taxes also paid for? Then there is that quick stop at the spohtin' good store to pick Junior up a pair of new Jordans. Then they go home in a car that cost thousands of dollars more than what I'm driving. Did you ever notice that? Keep on dishing out your bullshit "left winger".

Thats your best comeback?


But...but.....Obama takes VACATIONS <sob> <sob>

 

[rightwinger]

When the Soviet Union fell, contrary to the belief system of many, defense spending fell and fell and kept falling.

It wasn't until we were horribly attacked that it went back up.

Hell, in Europe, protected by the powerful United States, average defense spending is from our European allies in NATO is running at 1.6%.

YOu remove immediate threats and First World democratic societies will be happy to spend the money elsewhere.

We have a larger military than the next ten countries combined.....who is the threat?

Other nations seem to understand they can build schools, hospitals and feed their people while we build bigger and better military hardware

911

How did that work out?
A military larger than the next ten nations combined

Almost 3000 dead Americans. That's how it worked out.

And the military?

 

[Lonestar_logic]

When the Soviet Union fell, contrary to the belief system of many, defense spending fell and fell and kept falling.

It wasn't until we were horribly attacked that it went back up.

Hell, in Europe, protected by the powerful United States, average defense spending is from our European allies in NATO is running at 1.6%.

YOu remove immediate threats and First World democratic societies will be happy to spend the money elsewhere.

We have a larger military than the next ten countries combined.....who is the threat?

Other nations seem to understand they can build schools, hospitals and feed their people while we build bigger and better military hardware

911

How did that work out?
A military larger than the next ten nations combined

Almost 3000 dead Americans. That's how it worked out.

And the military?

You crow about how big of army we have as if that keeps us from harm. I just showed you that it doesn't.

 

[Where_r_my_Keys]

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This is, I repeat, the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. … Is there no other way the world may live?



Great speech by a great President.

So it's official, socialists are imbeciles, locked into a deviant species of reasoning which precludes the means to reason objectively.

It's not news... but that does seem to button up any would-be doubts that the slower contributors may have been struggling with. And I suppose that's good.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

 

[Claudette]

RW conveniently forgets that Europe has depended on the US of A for defense since WW II.

Of course they don't spend money on defense. Why should they when they have America to defend them.

Its all those pesky treaties that we have.

Oh yeah. Walk softly and carry a big stick. It works quite well.

As for the poor in this country?? They aren't nor should they be anyones responsibility but their own. Let em get a job and stop sucking off the taxpayer tit.

 

[Lonestar_logic]

RW conveniently forgets that Europe has depended on the US of A for defense since WW II.

Of course they don't spend money on defense. Why should they when they have America to defend them.

Its all those pesky treaties that we have.

Oh yeah. Walk softly and carry a big stick. It works quite well.

As for the poor in this country?? They aren't nor should they be anyones responsibility but their own. Let em get a job and stop sucking off the taxpayer tit.

In 2005, the typical household defined as poor by the government had a car and air conditioning. For entertainment, the household had two color televisions, cable or satellite TV, a DVD player, and a VCR. If there were children, especially boys, in the home, the family had a game system, such as an Xbox or a PlayStation.[4] In the kitchen, the household had a refrigerator, an oven and stove, and a microwave. Other household conveniences included a clothes washer, clothes dryer, ceiling fans, a cordless phone, and a coffee maker.

What is Poverty in the United States Air Conditioning Cable TV and an Xbox

I assume it's about the same ten years later.