For God's sake please cut the fucking military budget!

[think]

Mother fuck! Even George Bush Sr was smart enough to close unnecessary military bases when the budget got out of control. I'm tired of paying for the corporate welfare of multi national corporations while they outsource American jobs and exploit the resources of developing nations. FUCK THEM!. Let them pay for their own security while they exploit these countries!

No other country comes close to wasting the money we throw away every day for bullshit military expenditures. The enemy is amongst us! It is called the military industrial complex! Wake the fuck up! The greatest security threat facing America is it's own sacred cow....

[get the red out]

1. +!

Everything you said.

[roguevalley]

9. its a manhood thing. none of them served. they all like the whiz

bang manliness of the military. they would rather cut their penis off than cut this budget because its an equivalent act.

[Marblehead]

2. Don't you just love...

how the Corporate media never talks about this.

[Silent3]

3. This issue needs much MUCH more exposure

48% of world military spending is spent by the United States, with the other 52% split among every other country.

We could cut that in half and still be ridiculously over-militarized.

[FLPanhandle]

4. Ike was right

He and Jimmy Carter were the few Presidents who seriously fought back on military spending.

We don't need to be the world's policeman. We don't need to be supersized.

I'd prefer a smaller but very high tech military.

[opihimoimoi]

5. cut by 30%

[TBF]

8. I'd up that to cut by 75%.

A high-tech military based here in this country - none of this overseas "bases" nonsense. And take care of the previous veterans instead of continually cutting what you promised them.

[opihimoimoi]

12. Cut by 75% in 7 years....might be a slower but less painful to the Industry

The savings obviously will be invested into our economy for more jobs, infrastructure, etc....

debt free in 20 years....

DOW will reach 18,000

[Mnemosyne]

6. Hear, hear! K&R n/t

[think]

7. TY for the replies. America is a great nation

We are not beyond repair as long as we don't lose our sense of reality. Smart cuts to the military can be made to help us balance the budget in time to keep America solvent and on track for a better tomorrow.

As a wise man once said "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself". Thank you again for your responses.

FDR's first inaugral address from 1933:

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5057/

[lonestarnot]

10. Wha? And ruin a good thing for somebody? We have drones we want to rent out.

[think]

11. Love the candle.....nt

[lonestarnot]

13. Looks like it will never be put out.

:cry:

[Bigmack]

14. Preaching to the choir on this one....

I think most Murikans would support deep cuts if somebody - not mentioning any names - would just explain that we simply can't afford 730 bases overseas, an every-ocean fleet, and weapons systems that even the Pentagon doesn't want. It would take courage, but it could be done.

We can't afford an Empire, and the adults need to explain that to those who don't understand.

[grahamhgreen]

15. It's a no-brainer.

[Cascadian]

16. Makes sense to me!

If anything needs to raised in the military, it should be the wages of servicemen and servicewomen. As for more money to fund war games, FORGET IT! We spend more money on our military which is half of the military/industrial complex than many small countries spend on health care. There's where the money should go! Funding a Universal Health Care option!



John

[LeftinOH]

17. Guantanamo Bay Naval base cost over $100 milion per year to operate--

--and for what? To protect Cuba? Among our multitudes of pointless overseas military bases, keeping Guantanamo (purely out of spite, apparently) may be the stupidest. What a wa$te of money.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

18. In "Murka the military budget IS God. Omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient.

And, certainly untouchable.

[bahrbearian]

19. K&R

[Arugula Latte]

20. SLASH IT or we're done as a nation

[FiveGoodMen]

21. Ike was right.

[StarburstClock]

22. But we need to launch more freedom predator drones and keep shopping or the turrists win!

Meanwhile, we'll be adjusting the terror alert system for your convenience while adding 9/11 responders to the terrorist list. Your government at work.

[ThomWV]

23. Want to same a lot of money? Close Fort Hood, Texas

Close Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Close the Naval ship yards in Newport, Virginia

Close Fort Hood, Texas

Shut down every Air Force Base and buried missile bunker north if I-70

Mothball 3 Aircraft Carriers

Bring home every soldier stationed in Germany and Japan and discharge them

[mike_c]

24. what you said!

:thumbsup:

[Glimmer of Hope]

25. Amen!

[LiberalAndProud]

26. Think peace.

We won't reap a peace dividend until we have brokered a peace on three fronts. Add Iran and North Korea to that and then ... maybe, but I wouldn't hold my breath.