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tpunx99GSX · 08-23-2012

Fireworks vs Food?
In the age where a large part of our budget consists of money to build and blow up other countries, why is it such a "dont ask dont tell" issue when someone brings up cutting the budget on the military?
It was brought up the $400 toilet seat, and also with the argument "if we dont spend it, the budget will decrease." Why do we need to even have this argument? Why cant we cut the budget when we don't really need the money, and if we find ourselves in another war, increase the budget during that time? Or even, instead of increasing the budget to buy more worthless items, that we dont need just to keep the budget high, we reallocate money that would have been used on helping the soldiers coming home via the VA and other programs? Both sides use the "Fight them on their turf, not ours" reasoning behind going to other countries, but why fight them at all? Why not play the role that Russia and China play, which is sit back and let them sort themselves out, and try not to piss anyone off? I cant help but sit back and look at the last 12 years, and feel like our country is a screaming child and Russia and China are the adults sitting back watching us make our own mistakes so we actually learn something. Except for the fact that we have ADD and never learn.
So I am left with the question, What happens when the mom and pop decide to punish the child for their actions? They hold an enormous amount of our debt, and therefore can at the push of a button destroy our economy.
This should not be a partisan issue, lets pull the military back from all occupation and rebuild our economy to what it once was, and GROW THE FUCK UP.
Thoughts?

08-23-2012	#1
tpunx99GSX Tournaments Won: 3 Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Maple Grove, MN Drives: Lancer and Durango Posts: 7,017	Split off topic: Military Spending vs more Humanitarian means of spending Fireworks vs Food? In the age where a large part of our budget consists of money to build and blow up other countries, why is it such a "dont ask dont tell" issue when someone brings up cutting the budget on the military? It was brought up the $400 toilet seat, and also with the argument "if we dont spend it, the budget will decrease." Why do we need to even have this argument? Why cant we cut the budget when we don't really need the money, and if we find ourselves in another war, increase the budget during that time? Or even, instead of increasing the budget to buy more worthless items, that we dont need just to keep the budget high, we reallocate money that would have been used on helping the soldiers coming home via the VA and other programs? Both sides use the "Fight them on their turf, not ours" reasoning behind going to other countries, but why fight them at all? Why not play the role that Russia and China play, which is sit back and let them sort themselves out, and try not to piss anyone off? I cant help but sit back and look at the last 12 years, and feel like our country is a screaming child and Russia and China are the adults sitting back watching us make our own mistakes so we actually learn something. Except for the fact that we have ADD and never learn. So I am left with the question, What happens when the mom and pop decide to punish the child for their actions? They hold an enormous amount of our debt, and therefore can at the push of a button destroy our economy. This should not be a partisan issue, lets pull the military back from all occupation and rebuild our economy to what it once was, and GROW THE FUCK UP. Thoughts? __________________ Scientific theories are the most reliable, rigorous, and comprehensive form of scientific knowledge. This is significantly different from the common usage of the word "theory", which implies that something is a conjecture, hypothesis, or guess.