steven787 said:
TheRealMafoo said:
steven787 said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:
Leaving Iraq. |
How does $10B/month, or the $700 Billion we spent have anything to do with the state of our country... ;)
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in 2000, the US budget request for the 2001 defense department was $575 Billion (I can not find what we spent). Last year (7 years later), we spent $625 Billion on defense.
I am not sure where 120 billion a year comes from. Obama also wants to raise the number of military troops by 92,000. He wants to spend money on every aspect of the military, not to mention increase forces in Afghanistan.
Here is the page:
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/defense/
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The cost of having troops deployed is far greater than increasing the number of enlisted.
Since when did reps run on a platform of discouraging enlistment.
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I am not saying his plan on the Military is bad, I am just saying it's expensive. He doesn't just want to add troops, he wants better training, better and more equipment.....
Like every other page i have read in the issues section, it's going to cost us more then it costs us today. Where is the money coming from? If fact, this leads me to a question I think I will start a thread about.
