Democrats Vote To Give Trump Obscene $717 Billion Mílítary Budget

[Mr Puggsly]

Pemalite said:

Mr Puggsly said:

If we want more wealthy people in the US, the solution is simple. Super high taxes on the rich so the homeless can do drugs in nice hotels.

One way to spin it... But no.

Mr Puggsly said:
I've got mixed feelings. Maybe the military budget is too high, but in the grand scheme its still a relatively small amount of our overall spending.

The military budget is fine, allot of that cash goes back towards various industries which turns the cogs of the economy, provided there is appropriate taxation going on.

Mr Puggsly said:

 Left wingers don't seem to know most of our spending is already on social services.

What's wrong with social services?
Countries with the greatest standard of living have such a standard because of various socialist schemes.

The USA spends more on welfare, healthcare, education and so on per-capita than allot of countries, but you still fall short in most metrics, you simply aren't getting bang-for-your-buck.

Mr Puggsly said:

Shame Trump can't take $20 billion off that and build a wall already.

The Wall will never happen, it will never be twice as high, it was just political speech to try and win him some votes... The money wasn't even the issue.
Trump downgraded it to a fence in areas... Heck, he will never even get Mexico to pay for it either... Yet people lapped up that rhetoric during his campaign.

Mr Puggsly said:

Edit: On a side note there probably isn't much opposition because people do fear of Russia, China, and North Korea. Even the left has made them out to be looming threats and they have to walk back rhetoric to oppose the spending.

I feel the fear of China is more or less because many Americans fear being displaced as the most powerful country on Earth. - Us Australians tend to have a fine relationship, we got filthy rich and avoided the Global Financial Crisis because of China.

As for North Korea and Russia, that is an entirely different kettle of fish, North Korea is more bark than action, Russia is geographically near the USA, but you are right that people have genuine fears about them, for some reason.

I didn't expect that comment to be take seriously but has some reality.

The military isn't exactly being efficient with its resources, but that's another debate.

I'm saying many left wingers don't realize we are ALREADY spending a fortune on social services. For fun sometimes I tell them the actual percentage of our military budget and its a lot lower than they think. However, the left never says we need the best bang for the buck on things like healthcare or education, their solution is simply pour more money in.

People didn't really expect Trump to accomplish the wall goals per se. There is too much opposition even though the actual cost is a drop in the buck relative to overall spending. The left has opposed the wall and made it clear they don't want to be tough on illegal immigration in general. Trump does boast he already has a billion for the wall, curious to see how he tries to get more.

I don't believe our only concern with China is they're becoming the most powerful country. They're essentially a threat to the US in every way possible.