Dollar amounts are meaningless in this sense.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ce/Fy2010_spending_by_category.jpg
Ah, Amstel posted something similar.
I think the war has given everyone this idea in their head that we're spending some massive percentage of our funds on defense when we really aren't.
Most wasteful spending we have for such a giant part of the budget.
Add in all the ancillary costs, and we spent almost a trillion dollars on defense last year. Cut that by 50%, take 10% and put it into education, 10% into infrastructure improvements, another 10% into Alternative Energy, with the other 70% not being assigned and used for deficit reduction.
You'll see less hatred for the US as we aren't getting our shit involved in their crap, and a better, more stable life back home by investing in some core needs for maintaining the american way of life.
a quarter is a pretty massive percentage especially when it's the largest chunk of discretionary spendingDollar amounts are meaningless in this sense.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ce/Fy2010_spending_by_category.jpg
Ah, Amstel posted something similar.
I think the war has given everyone this idea in their head that we're spending some massive percentage of our funds on defense when we really aren't.
A war that has been going on for over 10 years now against 2 backward countries.
Only took 5 years to tap out Germany, Italy, & Japan.
Yay us!
Sure, two can play, just make sure you disclose the co-mingling.
Your defense includes Pension. Gonna take those away?
Sure, two can play, just make sure you disclose the co-mingling.
Your defense includes Pension. Gonna take those away?
I'm never going to get my social security. so I get to be a 2nd class citizen?
a quarter is a pretty massive percentage especially when it's the largest chunk of discretionary spending
Sure, two can play, just make sure you disclose the co-mingling.
Your defense includes Pension. Gonna take those away?
Ok, but why is everyone so hungry to cut defense but not the hundred other wasteful programs and initiatives out there?
This is a joke post, right?
one has nothing to do with the other.I'm never going to get my social security. so I get to be a 2nd class citizen?
Sure, two can play, just make sure you disclose the co-mingling.
Your defense includes Pension. Gonna take those away?
Would you? On the state level it's the pensions that make workers expensive i.e. paying people after they are no longer producing.
The intent of this thread was to discuss conservatism and it's view of entitlements. We're way off track.
No. I wouldn't. But as i mentioned before, the drawdown has to start with future recipients. ie: the money goes into an account today for the current producers retirement. Not, the current plan of "hey, we're not saving anything now, we'll just grab the cash that your kids are earning & give it to you and call it, uh, well, your pension." this unfunded shit is BS.