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Location: ND | Itsme - 2014-02-25 6:32 PM We need these cuts, just dont let it stop with the military.
agreed....except Nancy was out talking about how there is absolutely nothing else that can be cut.......well.....maybe she would agree that they could cut her face again.... |
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Location: SE Louisiana | dhdqhllc - 2014-02-25 7:09 PM
komet. - 2014-02-25 5:51 PM DaveM - 2014-02-25 5:38 PM I did "go to Washington". We elected a congress. (remember, that's how we do it. It's called representative government.)
Nearly 150 bills in 2013 alone were passed, and were largely about spending cuts. None were ever brought to the floor of the Senate. Stuff like that went out the door a long time ago.... I'm thinking it came to my attention when a Missouri representative voted against the wishes of the of his people about the Panama Canal when he voted to give it away, and he said he had to vote HIS conscious instead of the conscious of the people that put him in office. It was at that point I realized we had lost control of our government. I've not trusted it since.
It's this BS theory that has landed us where we are today... We put them there to speak for us.. |
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Location: North Texas | Itsme - 2014-02-25 6:32 PM
We need these cuts, just dont let it stop with the military.
Cut Security Forces @ your own peril! The Military is Constitutionally Mandated to be funded. Or have You not read the Constitution? |
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Location: ND | komet. - 2014-02-25 7:12 PM dhdqhllc - 2014-02-25 7:09 PM komet. - 2014-02-25 5:51 PM DaveM - 2014-02-25 5:38 PM I did "go to Washington". We elected a congress. (remember, that's how we do it. It's called representative government.)
Nearly 150 bills in 2013 alone were passed, and were largely about spending cuts. None were ever brought to the floor of the Senate. Stuff like that went out the door a long time ago.... I'm thinking it came to my attention when a Missouri representative voted against the wishes of the of his people about the Panama Canal when he voted to give it away, and he said he had to vote HIS conscious instead of the conscious of the people that put him in office. It was at that point I realized we had lost control of our government. I've not trusted it since. It's this BS theory that has landed us where we are today... We put them there to speak for us..
the founding fathers set our system up exactly as i have described......take it up with them.... |
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Location: ND | foundation horse - 2014-02-25 7:16 PM Itsme - 2014-02-25 6:32 PM We need these cuts, just dont let it stop with the military. Cut Security Forces @ your own peril! The Military is Constitutionally Mandated to be funded. Or have You not read the Constitution?
agreed...cut at your own peril but the amount of waste in the military is unacceptable......if all the military waste were streamlined, with no budget change, our forces would be stronger, more capable of varied response, and better taken care of whether active or retired.... |
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Location: NOT at Wal Mart | dhdqhllc - 2014-02-25 5:20 PM foundation horse - 2014-02-25 7:16 PM Itsme - 2014-02-25 6:32 PM We need these cuts, just dont let it stop with the military. Cut Security Forces @ your own peril! The Military is Constitutionally Mandated to be funded. Or have You not read the Constitution?
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Location: North Texas | dhdqhllc - 2014-02-25 7:20 PM
foundation horse - 2014-02-25 7:16 PM Itsme - 2014-02-25 6:32 PM We need these cuts, just dont let it stop with the military. Cut Security Forces @ your own peril! The Military is Constitutionally Mandated to be funded. Or have You not read the Constitution?
Then reform the funding/budget procedures/protocols but to cut the funding of America's Security is in essence cutting Her Own Throat! |
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| In my opinion, ALL the current spending cuts being proposed are petty, political or both. You could eliminate the entire annual budget of the military ($718 billion) and it wouldn't impact the 17 trillion of debt we owe.
Raising taxes isn't the answer either. If you taxed millionaires 100% (what good would that do?) you would gather enough money to fund our country's budget for . . . . about four months.
Interest on our debt alone each year is over $392 billion. (now wait, isn't that half our TOTAL military budget?)
So are we just dumb to keep re electing these guys? Here's a quote for the upcoming 2015 budget. The 2015 budget increases spending by $58 billion, according to USA Today. "Obama's budget will contain $56 billion in increased spending — according to a White House official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details before the budget announcement." But don't worry: it will all be paid for, we're told. Source: USA Today.
Hey. I just googled all this crap. But thank God for the internet. I wouldn't be able to gather this information by watching the news. lol.
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