| Mr Puggsly said: 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. |
Well. Funding is a part of the equation, I think there needs to be a strong top-to-bottom audit done on all your social services/welfare in the USA because... As far as international standards go, the USA just isn't getting a good deal or good results.
Allot of the leave-it-to-the-market capitalistic approaches to many services just doesn't work, because they become for-profit, rather than focusing on what's really important.
| Mr Puggsly said: 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. |
Well. I think the USA should learn to work with them, rather than against them.
China isn't going anywhere, that is a fact... The USA can try and limit trade as much as they want, but the rest of the planet will continue to buy and support Chinese.
| Alby_da_Wolf said: You're far too gentle and mild about it, the F-35 is one of the most shameless scams the USA ever gave to their allies. Many years ago the scandal about the Hercules C-130 was mainly about its excessive price and bribing allied countries politicians, but it was a decent airplane, particularly after all the improvements it received in its long career, but the F-35 is utter overpriced flying crap, if it even manages to fly, that is. |
Well. We managed to save some coin because we are building some of the technology that will go into our F-35's.
But I think a better deal would have been the Eurofighter Typhoon.
| Dulfite said: China is an economic enemy, and a political one. It could be a military one down the road because of those things. |
Slippery Slope arguments are a logical fallacy... And thus incorrect.
| Dulfite said: We have had a horrible history with Russia and that will probably continue, so need to be on alert. |
Things are better today with Trump... Things don't have to be so horrible.
| Dulfite said: France and the UK have become distant from the United States recently, even under Bush and Obama, as Europe pushes more towards socialism or extreme liberalism (American definition). |
Allot of Europe, Oceania, Pacific, Asian Countries are getting closer to China. Because. Well. Money.
China is buying our resources, products and services.
| Dulfite said: Japan is our closest friend on that list right now, and they need support if NK, China, or Russia ever do anything. |
Pretty much the entire Western world would support Japan in such an instance, there are treaties and such that are binding.
| Dulfite said: Putin would easily invade more parts of Europe, NK and China would try and take SK, and middle eastern nation's would have multiple revolutions leading to Israel being attacked on all sides. |
No.
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