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

[bripat9643]

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

Nailed it.

He stole it from someone else, and it's pure horseshit. For one thing, no one in this country goes hungry.

 

[Toro]

The President was right when he said that

All Military expenditures come at a price

Unfortunately, many Americans think military spending is good for the economy.

It's a strongly held belief by the Left that government spending is good for the economy.

 

[Dragonlady]

The right kind of government spending is good for the economy. Spending on infrastructure, education and research is good for the economy.

Spending on wars doesn't happen in the U.S.

 

[Wyatt earp]

The President was right when he said that

All Military expenditures come at a price

Unfortunately, many Americans think military spending is good for the economy.

Go ask a liberal Union member in Washington state

 

[Little-Acorn]

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


When he said that in 1953, did he also mention what the cost of socialism spreading across the globe, would be?

How many would go hungry as workers fell into sloth and did their jobs half-heartedly?

How many would starve when crops failed and they found they had no reserve? No rich and idle nation to supply the food they lack?

How many would die when emergencies happened and no ambulances were available? No fire trucks? Roads were inadequate for relief to get to the stricken location?

A military costs less than those things... because when government becomes socialistic, all of those things start affecting the entire country.

 

[Toro]

The right kind of government spending is good for the economy. Spending on infrastructure, education and research is good for the economy.

Spending on wars doesn't happen in the U.S.

Of course it does. Most of the spending happens here. Half of all government spending is on personnel, almost all of which are Americans, and half is on procurement, most of which are paid to American companies. The military spends on infrastructure, education and research. War spending is Leftist Keynesian policy at its core. But some on the Left think it's different simply because they don't agree with America's foreign policy, which is irrelevant to the economic affects of war spending. That's why local politicians fight every time the government tries to close a base or cut military spending in their district and state.

 

[Claudette]

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

Sure they can you dimwit because they expect America to defend them if they ever come under attack so their money can be used on other things besides defense. They feel they don't have to spend on defense, they expect America to defend them.

Jesus your a fucking idiot.

Jesus your a fucking idiot

Even an idiot knows the difference between your and you're

Excuse me while I stand over here and LMAO.

How low can you go. Your, You're, REALLY? Figures. Once an idiot. Always an idiot.

 

[Kondor3]

...We have a larger military than the next ten countries combined...

Yep.

"Yea, verily... though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil, 'cause I'm the biggest, baddest, meanest motherphukker in the valley."

That is how we win, when we need to, yes?

...who is the threat?...

1. Post-Soviet Russia.

2. Post-Communism China.

3. Militant Islam.

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

True, however, for many of those nations, they do such things only because they shelter behind the American Shield.

If they had to defend themselves entirely on their own, they would be building far more pop-guns, and far fewer schools, etc.

 

[Correll]

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

Sure they can you dimwit because they expect America to defend them if they ever come under attack so their money can be used on other things besides defense. They feel they don't have to spend on defense, they expect America to defend them.

Jesus your a fucking idiot.

Jesus your a fucking idiot

Even an idiot knows the difference between your and you're

HIs point that many nations skimp on Defense Spending because they know that the US will keep the peace is valid and serious.

YOu are an ass for ignoring a serious point to focus on grammar.

When you call someone a fucking idiot, you need to be certain your grammar is above reproach

Ewe can't bee two careful ...Ewe no?

No. You choose to avoid his crushing rebuttal of your point.

YOu were petty.

US military dominance suppresses other nations military spending.

Our allies know they don't have to spend a lot.

Our enemies know they cannot compete.

 

[Correll]

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.

Spending more money for the military was a psychological defense mechanism that had little to do with the actual threat. Spending more money for the military while cutting taxes was fiscally irresponsible, and contributed to our current economic problems.

Your first point was the claim of liberals though out the later decades of the Cold War.

THat belief was demonstrated to be false by the collapse of military spending after the end of the COld War.

Spending more money on the military was needed.

 

[Correll]

The US isn't "keeping the peace". They're the ones who are starting wars.

The US has been voted as the most significant threat to world peace in a survey across 68 different countries. Anti-American sentiment was not only recorded in antagonistic countries, but also in many allied NATO partners like Turkey and Greece.

A global survey conducted by the Worldwide Independent Network and Gallup at the end of 2013 revealed strong animosity towards the US’s role as the world’s policeman. Citizens across over 60 nations were asked: “Which country do you think is the greatest threat to peace in the world today?”

The US topped the list, with 24 percent of people believing America to be the biggest danger to peace. Pakistan came second, with 8 percent of the vote and was closely followed by China with 6 percent. Afghanistan, Iran, Israel and North Korea came in joint fourth place with 5 percent of the vote.
US the biggest threat to world peace in 2013 poll RT News

Bashing the US if fun and safe.


It's big and powerful and has a lot of impact in the world.

BUt you know that they are harmless. You can talk smack for generations and they will never do anything about it.

 

[Friends]

US military dominance suppresses other nations military spending...

Our enemies know they cannot compete.

Tell that to Al Qaeda. After 9/11 Osama in Laden. said, "We did not attack the United States because we thought the United States was weak. If we wanted to attack a weak country we would have attacked Iceland."

 

[Friends]

The President was right when he said that

All Military expenditures come at a price

Unfortunately, many Americans think military spending is good for the economy.

It's a strongly held belief by the Left that government spending is good for the economy.

That depends on what the economic conditions are, and what the money is spent for. Government spending, including military spending, got the United States out of the Great Depression. Nevertheless, the government money spent on World War II would have been more beneficial to the U.S. economy if it had been spent for civilian purposes.

In saying that I am not expressing regret that the United States entered World War II.

 

[Correll]

US military dominance suppresses other nations military spending...

Our enemies know they cannot compete.

Tell that to Al Qaeda. After 9/11 Osama in Laden. said, "We did not attack the United States because we thought the United States was weak. If we wanted to attack a weak country we would have attacked Iceland."

Bin Laden was a terrorist. He was not a national leader spending more money to build an military that could drive the US from the ME.

That was not a viable option.

He based his plans on the retreat of the US from Somalia.

He hoped enough casualties would drive the US to pull out of the ME.

This does NOT undermine my point about our military spending suppressing other nations military spending, both friend and foe.