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AnotherMcIntosh

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7. All Americans? "Starving Granny for Pointless Wars" seems to be EXACTLY what some politicians want.

Reply to grahamhgreen (Original post)

Wed Feb 27, 2013, 04:04 PM

Feb 2013

During LBJ's time, the choice was succinctly described as "guns or butter."

The clear implication was that choices have to be made and that you can't have both.

That is still true.

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3 Charts to Stop Military Madness: Starving Granny for Pointless Wars that Americans Don't Want - [View all] grahamhgreen Feb 2013 OP

K&R ! patrice Feb 2013 #1

Interesting that Democrats want larger budget cuts than the Republicans OceanEcosystem Feb 2013 #2

Why? What would you expect? Scuba Feb 2013 #5

Larger MILITARY budget cuts. The problem is that military expenditures have little benefit, grahamhgreen Feb 2013 #8

Little benefit, depends. GiveMeFreedom Feb 2013 #14

Well played! grahamhgreen Feb 2013 #15

K&R redqueen Feb 2013 #3

Why are you trying to distract us from Seth Macfarlane's boobs joke? Comrade Grumpy Feb 2013 #4

Rec. progressoid Feb 2013 #6

All Americans? "Starving Granny for Pointless Wars" seems to be EXACTLY what some politicians want. AnotherMcIntosh Feb 2013 #7

Cut the military budget by 2/3. Tax religion. Tax the billionaires. End subsidies. Initech Feb 2013 #9

Agreed! It ain't rocket science. grahamhgreen Feb 2013 #11

Hey I've only had basic accounting and I know this! Initech Feb 2013 #12

During Vietnam war and weapons were about 40% of military budget. LeftInTX Feb 2013 #10

Notice how little "personal pay and housing" for the troops has gone up, compared grahamhgreen Feb 2013 #13

This is what it's ALL about. johnnyreb Feb 2013 #16