Democrats Vote To Give Trump Obscene $717 Billion Mílítary Budget

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Hiku said:

The USA defense budget was already beyond insane before this vote...

People often forget, or don't commonly mention, that even though Republicans are the main offenders of taking large corporate donations, there are plenty of Democrats that do the same.

I fail to see why USA's defense budget needs to be that much higher than the top 7 closest countries combined.
Need to vote all these people out.

In the last election, Hillary Clinton became the poster child for taking large corporate donations. She had so much money in her arsenal to the point where at one time, she was outspending Donald Trump on campaigning ten times over. She had the backing of the big banks. She had the backing of the Saudi Royal Family. She was supported by the mainstream media outlets. That's why she really didn't campaign that hard despite somehow spending a lot of money. She thought she had the election in the bag. But then again, Hillary Clinton is a Neo-Liberal. She could pass as a moderate Republican if she wanted to.

 

Aeolus451 said:

You have to consider the role the US military. It functions as a security force for all of North America, South Korea, Japan, EU, etc. It's easy to be snarky about US defense spending when your own country doesn't have to spend much due to the US protecting your shit and maintaining world peace.

Thank you for posting this. This is what a lot of people don't get. The majority of the US's defense spending comes from oversees costs. Personally, I don't think the US should be the world's policemen anymore. Maybe during the immediate post-WWII years, there was a reason for it and even throughout the Cold War, but there isn't anymore. The Commies aren't coming to take over and the Russians aren't the Soviet Union anymore despite what some people would like to think. The thing is some of these countries get real pissy when the US asks them step up their own defense. They're asking this in order to relieve the American taxpayer. 

 

DonFerrari said:
Seems like the democrats in power hate Trump less than they voters.

The Democrats just love spending period. That isn't to say the Republicans are much better. With the exception of Rand Paul, Justin Amash and Thomas Massie, who are the few libertarian-leaning Republicans, the Republicans just as bad. The difference is the Republicans like to pretend to be fiscally conservative whereas the Democrats don't even hide the fact that they love spending.