Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
With cuts like that our military becomes broken. The bulk of the budget goes to maintaining existing equipment.
No, the bulk is in operations and maintenance. Lot of the equipment can be retired. We are in process of pulling back from a number of places. When the troops come home, they can join the civilian workforce, and hence less money is needed for operating and maintaining the military AND less money for personnel, which is the 2nd largest expense.
Quote:
Obama made harsh cuts causing half our planes to be cannibalized to keep the other half flying.
How about a Democrat Tithing similar to what the Mormons do? There you go! Put your money where your mouth is and donate 10% of your annual income to these types of causes?
I've been asking them to put their money where their mouths are for years. Fund the means-tested public assistance programs via voluntary donations. Should be no problem since most Democrats insist they're absolutely necessary, while others of us don't. Time for the people who just love to give away others' confiscated earned income to pay up voluntarily, themselves.
I've been asking them to put their money where their mouths are for years. Fund the means-tested public assistance programs via voluntary donations. Should be no problem since most Democrats insist they're absolutely necessary, while others of us don't. Time for the people who just love to give away others' confiscated earned income to pay up voluntarily, themselves.
Not a single one will agree to that.
Why didn't you ask Republicans to pay their hand outs that way? We just blew $12B in handouts to farmers. Why didn't you call for that to be funded via volutary donations from Republicans?
Why didn't you ask Republicans to pay their hand outs that way? We just blew $12B in handouts to farmers.
Sure. End the Farm Bill. Now. 80% of it goes to fund the Food Stamps program, and its even more than that when the Bill's funding of the free school meals programs is added.
I've been asking them to put their money where their mouths are for years. Fund the means-tested public assistance programs via voluntary donations. Should be no problem since most Democrats insist they're absolutely necessary, while others of us don't. Time for the people who just love to give away others' confiscated earned income to pay up voluntarily, themselves.
Not a single one will agree to that.
Well, the entire state of MA. not only funds itself, but give the extra to Republican States who can't pull their weight.
Not a single one? I could show you 10's or 100's of million who not only fund themselves and their neighbors, but also fund Red States. It's a fact.
But I guess 10's of millions don't equal ONE in your new math? What you want is someone personally to come to your door and agree to pay their way, eh? Well, I'll come to your virtual door and say I've always paid mine. 40+ years in business and big bucks....and still paying.
Well, the entire state of MA. not only funds itself, but give the extra to Republican States who can't pull their weight.
End that. Now. Reduce everyone's federal taxes. No more free stuff given away to anyone that is paid for by money confiscated from others' paychecks. Make all means-tested assistance programs funded via voluntary donations. Should be no problem since Democrats want those programs so much.
You drive/ride on roads, you enjoy the safety standards of products, good and services and many others things and you enjoy a great many things taxes pay for, both Federal, State, County, City and Community... so spin that stuff in your right wing circles... where such types buy into that.
if/since: you hate so much anything and everything that helps others... it's a personal problem that you will have to live with, or extract yourself from what is "civil society that has civic based systems"....
We get tired of hearing your incessant "anti tax spin".... "anti-government spin" and the obsessive consumption with aims to try and "deny something to someone and anyone"....
Informed Consent (as long as she is following the TOS) has just as much right to post whatever she wants to post as you do.
If you don't like what she posts, you're always free to not read her posts (IOW, consciously ignore them), or to put her on ignore so you don't even have to see her posts at all.
Bingo. They KNOW Democrats are warmongers, and their livelihoods absolutely depend on the massive need for and support of the Military Industrial Complex, which includes both the military and its civilian contractors, etc.
So if that’s the case you and republicans should be in major favor of heavy spending cuts for the military right?
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
