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Related: About this forumSenator Sanders: Our National Priorities: Endless Defense Spending or Working Families?
Published on Jun 12, 2018
Over and over again, myRepublican colleagues and some of my Democratic colleagues have come down to the Senate floor to complain about the $21 trillion national debt.
Over and over again, our Republican friends tell us that we cannot possibly afford to join the rest of the industrialized world and guarantee health care as a right to every man, woman and child through a Medicare for All program.
We have been told that we cannot afford to make public colleges and universities tuition free, or to make sure that everyone in America has access to affordable housing, childcare, or a good job that pays a living wage with good benefits.
Even though over half of older Americans have no retirement savings we have been told we need to cut Social Security.
But, when it comes to spending $716 billion on the military - more than the next ten countries combined - all of a sudden there is a deafening silence from my Republican colleagues about the deficit.
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Senator Sanders: Our National Priorities: Endless Defense Spending or Working Families? (Original Post)
Donkees
Jun 2018
OP
What do those issues have to do with the Senatorial consideration of the Defense Budget?
Uncle Joe
Jun 2018
#6
Uncle Joe
(58,366 posts)1. Kicked and recommended.
Thanks for the thread Donkees
George II
(67,782 posts)2. Anyone know the last time Sanders voted against a defense spending bill?
Response to George II (Reply #2)
MrPool This message was self-deleted by its author.
lapucelle
(18,276 posts)5. Maybe BS voted down the funding for this one,
"a $1.2 trillion stealth fighter thats considered by many to be one of the bigger boondoggles in Pentagon history."
https://www.thedailybeast.com/air-force-admits-our-new-stealth-fighter-cant-fight
MrPool
(73 posts)3. Children in cages, allies attacked, a brutal dictator
who has actual concentration camps given the thumbs up by the U.S and this guy is still playing the hits of 2016.
Uncle Joe
(58,366 posts)6. What do those issues have to do with the Senatorial consideration of the Defense Budget?
MrPool
(73 posts)7. It has to do with who we are sir
granted this is a major priority but we are in uncharted waters now and Bernie knows better than anyone about fascism.