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In reply to the discussion: "Would You Like To Buy A Pen?" She Asked Me [View all]Myrina
(12,296 posts)69. The Right Wing stance on military cuts is so bogus
... as if a 12% funding cut for the military will shut it down entirely and the troops will suddenly revert to the conditions of Washington's troops at Valley Forge. We have more military shit stashed than most Americans can even comprehend. Enough nukes and other bombs to blow up the entire planet, multiple times over.
And yet for some reason, every GOP'er within reach of a microphone is acting like we'll be back to slingshots and muskets by the middle of March.
Someone please call them out on this?
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People do not underestand how tiny a fraction of the budget is used by Foreign Aid.
Bernardo de La Paz
Feb 2013
#11
It's amazing how someone selling pencils like that can form an unforgettable image stamped in your
world wide wally
Feb 2013
#13
"...for the cost of one aircraft carrier, we could feed every hungry person in the entire world."
Duer 157099
Feb 2013
#17
Not quite right. Many of them are not 'US' installations. We share a building in another country's
stevenleser
Feb 2013
#76
One carrier would feed everyone. But then no one would hate us and the MIC wouldn't prosper as much.
Scuba
Feb 2013
#26
Thank you for your Congressional efforts. Since the rest of us are not Congressmen, does it matter
AnotherMcIntosh
Feb 2013
#36