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Our Millitary is weaked by socialized programs to the point of excessive vulnerability.
In 2015, United States defense spending will be greater than the spending of the next seven largest defense budgets combined
In his role as member of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, Bernie has been highly concerned with not only the immediate, overt costs of waging war, but also the less obvious and longer-term costs of engaging in military conflicts. In an op-ed for the Boston Globe, Bernie wrote:
“The cost of war is great, and it is far more than the hundreds of billions of dollars we spend on planes, tanks, missiles and guns.
The cost of war is more than 6,800 service members who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan. The cost of war is caring for the spouses and children who have to rebuild their lives after the loss of their loved ones. It’s about hundreds of thousands of men and women coming home from war with post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, many of them having difficulty keeping jobs in order to pay their bills. It’s about high divorce rates. It’s about the terrible tragedy of veterans committing suicide.”
I'm perfectly happy with the government getting more of your money too. But if you want to take other people's money without their permission to support YOUR causes, then you belong in PRISON!
originally posted by: elliotmtl
I'm perfectly happy for the government to be getting more of my money as long as it can be reasonably verified that my money is going to help less "fortunate" people than I. I'd rather pay 40 % taxes and know that most of it was feeding, clothing and sheltering people who need it, than pay 5% taxes and know that most of it was going to the military.
originally posted by: buster2010
a reply to: gladtobehere
Could it be that other people is able to see that the unregulated capitalist system has all but destroyed this nation?
Are you just regurgitating what the media has fed you? You can’t be serious. Unregulated? LOL
I don't think regulations are the answer.
Beezzer? Want to add to that?
New EPA Regs Issued Under Obama Are 38 Times as Long as Bible
cnsnews.com...
originally posted by: beezzer
a reply to: kellynap43
Just an observation.
According to some, government "has" to regulate, monitor, "police", many aspects (FDA, EPA, DoE )
I may be the only one (?) who thinks that government does a poor job and that we can save huge amounts of tax-payer money by farming out these "monitoring tasks" to outside contractors who will do it on time and within budget.
Well Said......I mean come on...... the United States Post office and our Social Security administration and the fact we are 19 trillion in debt shows the government reeks of efficiency and success!!! (Sarcasm)
originally posted by: cavtrooper7
a reply to: AlaskanDad
YES really..www.armytimes.com...
Sounds like a 'Dove" who isn't paying attention like most of the left about our current cold war.
Sander's is not going to stop anysytemic methods of obfiscation that the VA always uses anyway.
In 2015, United States defense spending will be greater than the spending of the next seven largest defense budgets combined
originally posted by: Sremmos80
a reply to: beezzer
So now instead of gov companies we just have private ones doing the same job?
Is the idea that if they don't meet the goals that they would be replaced and that would be better then having a gov agency?