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Are you ready to give up pretty much every modern technology in order to stop using oil?
No, it means that I understand why we cannot simply keep our noses to ourselves.
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We could stop getting any of the oil we use from the ME, and they'd still have plenty of funding from the rest of the world buying their oil.
Exactly. This is a global issue.
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The only thing oil has to do with this is that without oil, nobody would really care what was happening in the ME and that is where their funding comes from; however, many, many regular people in the ME, who have nothing to do with terrorism, benefit from that natural resource.
Yes again. And it will never gel with this irrational isolationism Trump and team are trying to sell.
The annual federal budget is now more than $4 trillion, so the White House is proposing to shift a mere 1.35% of that to defense from other priorities. That’s it.
The proposal is a 10% increase over the 2018 budget cap set by the Budget Control Act. But it is only about 3% above what Barack Obama proposed in his final budget as he tried to neutralize the defense issue during the presidential campaign
As for cutting domestic non-entitlement programs, it’s hard to argue that the federal government couldn’t use a top-to-bottom scrub. Would the American people even notice if the Agriculture and Labor departments had to cut their budgets by 20.7%, or Commerce by 15.7%?
The annual federal budget is now more than $4 trillion, so the White House is proposing to shift a mere 1.35% of that to defense from other priorities. That’s it.
But the discretionary budget is only $1 trillion, and of that, DOD is 50%. So that "mere 1.35%" is actually upwards of 15% to 30% for the affected agencies while only benefiting DOD by 5%.
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The proposal is a 10% increase over the 2018 budget cap set by the Budget Control Act. But it is only about 3% above what Barack Obama proposed in his final budget as he tried to neutralize the defense issue during the presidential campaign
This is exactly why the "libs" are going crazy. You cant yell, scream, and shutdown the government over balanced budgets for 8 years and then all of a sudden accept deficit spending as normal. The only change here is on what the deficit spending is for.
Remember at one point when we actually had congressmen signing balanced budget pledges?
Hmmm. Somehow I think the rich will win and everyone else loses. But that's only based on facts.
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