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Orwellian_Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 10:10 PM Original message |
GOT HEALTHCARE? Obama Says the US Will CONTINUE to Maintain the WORLD'S STRONGEST MILITARY |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 10:12 PM Response to Original message |
1. Maybe he means that he'll cut military spending by 55% |
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Richard Steele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 10:19 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Dammit! You know how I hate it when you read my mind! |
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Orwellian_Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 10:21 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. Not much chance of that |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 10:25 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. I thought that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan don't count as military spending? |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 10:29 PM Response to Reply #5 |
10. Which is as opposed to the 13% increase they were slated for in the previous budget. |
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Orwellian_Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 10:40 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. Heh? |
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blues90 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 10:46 PM Response to Reply #5 |
16. yea good old america |
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L0oniX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 10:14 PM Response to Original message |
2. I suppose you could say that anyone who joins the military is working against national health care. |
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Orwellian_Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 10:17 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Or... |
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Richard Steele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 10:24 PM Original message |
I could say that, but I won't...because it's ridiculously untrue. |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 10:23 PM Response to Original message |
6. We can have both. We must have both. |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 01:16 PM Response to Reply #6 |
32. Why must we have the largest military in history? |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 01:27 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. We need to cut the waste in spending in the military. They never seem to be audited |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 01:51 PM Response to Reply #34 |
38. Hardly a good enough reason. |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 01:57 PM Response to Reply #38 |
39. Those were the best years in America. There was a big middle class and prosperity. |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 02:20 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. I don't know what your post has to do with what I posted. |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 02:30 PM Response to Reply #40 |
41. Well, never mind. You were talking about bad military and I was talking |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 02:52 PM Response to Reply #41 |
42. Please don't hold back for me. |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 03:04 PM Response to Reply #42 |
43. I'm not rhapsodizing about anything. I'm telling you how a strong military |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 03:27 PM Response to Reply #43 |
44. Oh, they are coming for our 'stuff'. |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 03:38 PM Response to Reply #44 |
45. I agree with you that what we are doing is wrong but we can't just disband |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 04:07 PM Response to Reply #45 |
46. Screw the saffron robes. |
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Political Tiger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 10:24 PM Response to Original message |
7. "Worlds strongest military." And this is bad how? |
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Orwellian_Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 10:45 PM Response to Reply #7 |
15. The Economic Cost of the Military Industrial Complex |
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ConcernedCanuk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 11:40 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. Gee - we didn't even make the pie chart, but then again, we got that silly health-care thing going |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 11:54 PM Response to Reply #7 |
19. It's bad because being an imperial power is too damned expensive n/t |
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PVnRT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 09:23 AM Response to Reply #7 |
21. It's unsustainable |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 10:24 PM Response to Original message |
8. same old SHIT. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 10:32 PM Response to Original message |
11. Until the empire fails... |
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stillcool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 10:34 PM Response to Original message |
12. what a shocker! |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 10:37 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. what an awer too. |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 11:12 PM Response to Original message |
17. C'mon. He HAS to say these things to get elected |
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Orwellian_Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 09:13 AM Response to Reply #17 |
20. That's the perception |
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SammyWinstonJack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 10:35 AM Response to Reply #17 |
24. Running for re-election already, is he? |
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TBF (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 09:54 AM Response to Original message |
22. K&R n/t |
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Soylent Brice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 10:12 AM Response to Original message |
23. ASIA - Other??? where the hell is China on that list??? |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 10:47 AM Response to Reply #23 |
27. Pay attention |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 10:53 AM Response to Reply #23 |
28. becase it wouldn't makes us as look bad if he included china |
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Soylent Brice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-18-09 07:07 AM Response to Reply #28 |
49. that was my thinking. |
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OPERATIONMINDCRIME (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 10:44 AM Response to Original message |
25. Good News! GOBAMA!!!!!! |
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WI_DEM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 10:47 AM Response to Original message |
26. I'd like you to show me a U.S. President who wouldn't say that? |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 11:54 AM Response to Reply #26 |
29. You are of course correct. |
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Orwellian_Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 12:28 PM Response to Reply #26 |
31. Well then |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 12:23 PM Response to Original message |
30. The "land of the free and home of the brave" has to be protected from endless array of bogeymen. |
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Zywiec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 01:22 PM Response to Original message |
33. USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 01:29 PM Response to Original message |
35. Hyperbolic kneejerks aside, the US military could shrink a lot while still holding the #1 spot (nt) |
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Orwellian_Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 01:45 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. Why the insistence |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 01:48 PM Response to Original message |
37. Well, we could still maintain the strongest military in the world if we cut it down. nt |
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steelmania75 (836 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 04:10 PM Response to Original message |
47. What pisses me off about that chart is all the defense spending that has increased over.... |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 08:45 PM Response to Original message |
48. kick n/t |
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Orwellian_Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-20-09 02:13 PM Response to Reply #48 |
50. Guns or butter |
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