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Response to unhappycamper (Original post)

Mon Aug 6, 2012, 01:07 AM

91. What's really disgusting is to think...

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How much good could have been done with those trillions and trillions of $$$ poured into the MIC over the decades. Scientific research, healthcare, infrastucture, environmental projects, poverty, job creation, education (the list goes on and on)...you know, stuff that would actually benefit all of us instead of a few 1%ers and the blackhole that is war.

If we spent half as much on military and re-distributed that money to the things that really matter, the US would be the unquestioned leader in almost everything and the envy of the world.

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131 replies	Author	Time	Post
Fucking Welfare Queens [View all]	unhappycamper	Aug 2012	OP
I keep bringing up how many of the 1% must actually make more directly from taxpayers than	brewens	Aug 2012	#1
it seems like the upper middle class pays the taxes and the top 1% collects them.	HiPointDem	Aug 2012	#18
The average itemized deductions for those with income $200k or more is $64k.	LiberalFighter	Aug 2012	#45
Hasn't that almost always been the case with the ruling class. They just didn't used to	brewens	Aug 2012	#58
Which parts of that represent welfare?	Tennessee Gal	Aug 2012	#2
Food and Agriculture	paradox	Aug 2012	#3
That's what I thought.	Tennessee Gal	Aug 2012	#5
This is DISCRETIONARY spending, Social Security, Welfare, Food stamps etc are NOT included	happyslug	Aug 2012	#77
.	rocktivity	Aug 2012	#4
Nice!	CrispyQ	Aug 2012	#102
The MIC death grip on this country continues unabated.	marmar	Aug 2012	#6
My sentiment exactly.	99Forever	Aug 2012	#17
A 5% cut in military spending. That's it?	MannyGoldstein	Aug 2012	#7
Corporate welfare still exist and cost more than the welfare queens.	Thinkingabout	Aug 2012	#8
Excellent well thought out	Smilo	Aug 2012	#9
My husband saw Contractor Fraud Waste and Abuse in Iraq BigTime!	SaveAmerica	Aug 2012	#10
War mongering for corporate welfare, USA, USA...	xtraxritical	Aug 2012	#11
Yes, I feel it will. I think Obama's steps have been calculated,	SaveAmerica	Aug 2012	#15
I think pretty much the same. In a second term, fighting climate change must...	Amonester	Aug 2012	#16
This message was self-deleted by its author	rasputin1952	Aug 2012	#12
Can't forget the mercenaries	The Wizard	Aug 2012	#21
Things must have changed	JonLP24	Aug 2012	#68
This was '09 and only one example	SaveAmerica	Aug 2012	#80
That sounds about right	JonLP24	Aug 2012	#85
It's all good, bottom line is that they're wasting money over there	SaveAmerica	Aug 2012	#112
...and there's all the HLS and other covert op costs which are covered in secrecy.	L0oniX	Aug 2012	#13
It's digusting and there is no end in sight.	raouldukelives	Aug 2012	#14
At least they do something for their handout	crimson77	Aug 2012	#19
Sounds like typical guys who don't know how to cook.	Spitfire of ATJ	Aug 2012	#22
Not to change the subject	crimson77	Aug 2012	#23
Tell me about it...	Spitfire of ATJ	Aug 2012	#24
Ragout of duck legs and Shrimp Remoulde are my specialities.	crimson77	Aug 2012	#28
I'm more of the "pizza casserole" type	Spitfire of ATJ	Aug 2012	#38
The hardest thing for me, is finding all my ingredients at one store.	crimson77	Aug 2012	#41
I have access to just about ANYTHING within three miles.	Spitfire of ATJ	Aug 2012	#48
Only in republican world does	B Calm	Aug 2012	#27
Take all subsidies away, and deductions as well.	crimson77	Aug 2012	#30
We do agree.	B Calm	Aug 2012	#34
Did you look at the chart? What % of the national budget goes to the poor?	sabrina 1	Aug 2012	#32
I was born in a Marine Corps family, on a Marine Corps base.	crimson77	Aug 2012	#33
Well, there's certainly been enough reporting on the egregious and massive corruption since	sabrina 1	Aug 2012	#40
I am overly protective the military, for a variety of reasons.	crimson77	Aug 2012	#43
Military Contractors, Halliburton, Bectel et al are not 'the military'.	sabrina 1	Aug 2012	#52
But Northrup Gruman,Boeing, and Hughes are. I think they do great work.	crimson77	Aug 2012	#53
You never answered my question, 'what % of the National Budget goes to the poor'?	sabrina 1	Aug 2012	#90
Do you know the answer, I'm to tired to look.	crimson77	Aug 2012	#96
It's not hard at all. It's quite easy as a matter of fact.	sabrina 1	Aug 2012	#113
I am not uncomfortable with those ratio's	crimson77	Aug 2012	#114
Welfare, Food Stamps and Social Security are under "NON-Discretionary" spending.	happyslug	Aug 2012	#79
This post was hidden by jury decision.	dawn frenzy adams	Aug 2012	#47
I am more opposed to the 2 stoner guys part.	crimson77	Aug 2012	#51
Do you have any idea how much those "perfectly capable men" (a judgment you leap to with	Egalitarian Thug	Aug 2012	#56
I am not conservative, I have an opinion that I wish more people would share.	crimson77	Aug 2012	#59
Reading your post and replies leaves only one possible conclusion. Yes, you are a conservative.	Egalitarian Thug	Aug 2012	#65
What's flawed about it?	crimson77	Aug 2012	#70
The waiver is about granting states more flexibility - a typically RW position	progree	Aug 2012	#73
Don't get me started on SSDI	crimson77	Aug 2012	#74
Ask the 29 RepubliCON governors including Mitt Robme why they wanted the waiver. I don't know.	progree	Aug 2012	#86
The governors are assholes, for many diffrent reasons	crimson77	Aug 2012	#97
I think the RWers are pulling your leg - they are great at telling half truths and manufacturing	progree	Aug 2012	#108
What percentage do you think that actually is?	crimson77	Aug 2012	#111
The RWers are pulling your leg.	progree	Aug 2012	#119
I don't care about their reasoning.	crimson77	Aug 2012	#121
yOU ARE BEING FED RW NONSENSE. How is your research going?	progree	Aug 2012	#123
I believe that the Republican governors are assholes.	crimson77	Aug 2012	#124
"But your right, let's go back to the halcyon day's of the 80's" - cut the crap	progree	Aug 2012	#130
How many people do you know personally that you believe is "taking advantage" of the system?	JaneyVee	Aug 2012	#88
In my Situation	crimson77	Aug 2012	#95
Where on earth do you live where all these 'undeserving poor' are managing to get all these	sabrina 1	Aug 2012	#89
section 8 housing, go sometime it will be illuminating.	crimson77	Aug 2012	#92
Your laughing, I'll prove it to you.	crimson77	Aug 2012	#93
i hate to tell you but those places won't take the case unless they know they can win.	ejpoeta	Aug 2012	#103
When I say my friend,	crimson77	Aug 2012	#109
So you know one person who in your opinion is scamming the system for what is, actually a pittance	sabrina 1	Aug 2012	#120
I'll give you facts	crimson77	Aug 2012	#122
You still haven't commented on the Welfare Queens who are getting trillions of dollars	sabrina 1	Aug 2012	#125
If people are guilty of frauding the goverment over military spending	crimson77	Aug 2012	#128
You know how hard it is to get approved for SSDI?	JonLP24	Aug 2012	#104
More generalizations about the working class poor. Keep going, I'm enjoying your posts, they	sabrina 1	Aug 2012	#87
I don't even know where to start...	Egalitarian Thug	Aug 2012	#131
From the list, it sounds like they might not have a stove.	knitter4democracy	Aug 2012	#62
Many working poor qualify for food stamps.	Warren Stupidity	Aug 2012	#101
How do you know they are perfectly capable?	CrispyQ	Aug 2012	#105
Would you spend $50,000,000.00 for an alarm system to protect a 73 Ford Pinto?	Spitfire of ATJ	Aug 2012	#20
Disagree	crimson77	Aug 2012	#25
"This country is and will continue to be the greatest country in the history of civilization."	Spitfire of ATJ	Aug 2012	#29
My nana's canasta team could take them over, I meant of the superpowers.	crimson77	Aug 2012	#31
No, actually my response was directed at the "civilization" part.	Spitfire of ATJ	Aug 2012	#42
Top of the morning to you, good sir.	crimson77	Aug 2012	#44
In what specific context?	LanternWaste	Aug 2012	#110
I know where you are going to go with this.	crimson77	Aug 2012	#118
Your retirement savings didn't disappear. They were redistributed.	NYC_SKP	Aug 2012	#26
The out-of-control MIC, of which Ike warned us, and a chillingly regressive tax scheme, perpetrated	indepat	Aug 2012	#35
I always say it and I always get shit for it, but here it goes again	thelordofhell	Aug 2012	#36
There is no military budget. Do you mean Dept of Defense?	Honeycombe8	Aug 2012	#37
k&r	Starry Messenger	Aug 2012	#39
Hubby retired from the Navy	revolution breeze	Aug 2012	#46
And that doesn't even take into account the "Black Budget"	99th_Monkey	Aug 2012	#49
The "Black Budget" is included, it is buried in the Defense Budget somewhere.	happyslug	Aug 2012	#82
What about the $2.3 Trillion that Donald Rumsfeld said was missing?	99th_Monkey	Aug 2012	#94
Could be, but the 2.3 Trillion is one of many years if not decades.	happyslug	Aug 2012	#115
my brother in law died before he could get his disability payments	madrchsod	Aug 2012	#50
One part of the puzzle that you are leaving unmentioned is	truedelphi	Aug 2012	#54
Great post	dreamnightwind	Aug 2012	#71
This post was hidden by jury decision.	lucy88	Aug 2012	#55
Go away.	Ikonoklast	Aug 2012	#57
+1	blkmusclmachine	Aug 2012	#60
And when people suggest cutting military spending, the Teabaggers throw a shit fit!	Crowman1979	Aug 2012	#61
Kick. Nt	xchrom	Aug 2012	#63
Funny how that works,,	Cryptoad	Aug 2012	#64
Nice to see you again unhappy	JonLP24	Aug 2012	#66
''Money trumps peace.''	Octafish	Aug 2012	#67
We spent $80 Billion over 10 years to re-build Afghanistan Electric grid and schools....	lib2DaBone	Aug 2012	#69
We the people don't get crap from that military spending	magic59	Aug 2012	#72
THANK YOU...	MrMickeysMom	Aug 2012	#75
One point that gets missed	DonCoquixote	Aug 2012	#76
What the bullies of the world spend the most on ... MIC ... and corporate welfare. n/t	RKP5637	Aug 2012	#78
Well done.	HCE SuiGeneris	Aug 2012	#81
I have to disagree, but excluding non-discretionary spending, this chart is missing half the budget.	happyslug	Aug 2012	#83
57% to send them to A'stan 5% to fix them when they return	SaveAmerica	Aug 2012	#84
What's really disgusting is to think...	tex-wyo-dem	Aug 2012	#91
Indeed +1. The numbers are right there, from independent NGO's to the U.N.	Egalitarian Thug	Aug 2012	#98
Yeah	libodem	Aug 2012	#99
We used to call these people "war profiteers", and when we caught them they got hung for treason.	baldguy	Aug 2012	#100
re:Fucking Welfare Queens,dont get me started on ssdi	allan01	Aug 2012	#106
Senators and Congressman	Madmiddle	Aug 2012	#107
K and R nt. thanks for posting	Stuart G	Aug 2012	#116
We spend more on defense than the next 50 countries combined.	Initech	Aug 2012	#117
And they tell us, we are still not safe. I would call that an historically expensive, spectacular	sabrina 1	Aug 2012	#127
Yup - it's a classic false sense of security. That's what the MIC offers.	Initech	Aug 2012	#129
But these Queens have such huge teats	cbrer	Aug 2012	#126

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