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and, how did we afford them all these years? It must have been a miracle.
More like a nightmare.
Defense spending is now 20 percent more than it was in 1985 and has risen 43 percent since 1998.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, defense spending currently constitutes more than half of U.S. domestic discretionary spending -- that is, the part of the federal budget that is not spent on mandatory items like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
"Quite bluntly," analyst Stephen Daggett of the non-partisan Congressional Research Service told a little-noticed hearing of the House Budget Committee last week, "the cost of everything we have been doing in defense has been accelerating upward too fast even for growing budgets to keep up."
We didn't and couldn't...... It's this thing called "Defecit Spending" you see..... Our government hasn't been very responsible on that front.
There was a time in the last 15 years though when a President WAS able to balance the budget, and you are actually on the right path in that he did so in large part with cutbacks on military spending.....
Call the pope! It was a F'n miracle!!
What does this have to do with our President's long hesitation?
I'm glad the majority doesn't think like that.
You don't value your protection very much.
It is a miracle that it went on so long and still does.
Lets eliminate the military. If not reduce it's size.
....... OOOOO, Kay
While at WAR, holding on to the rear flank is very important, even if there is no live theater there.
But you know absolutely nothing about war, except it cost lives and money.
You sound like you think the war over there is being fought in trenches with a clearly defined front line.
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