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Bernie Sanders named Chair of the Senate Budget Committee
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Originally posted by Thoughtful Monk View PostI think this means we're going to see lots of money for existing and new social programs and cuts to defense spending.
Why do we need to support 700+ military bases in other countries? And thousands of Generals with expensive entourages?
Why not spend the money at home for things people need, like healthcare access, repaired roads and bridges, affordable higher education, etc.
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Originally posted by kccd View Post
Why do we need yearly increases in defense spending when we are not under any specific threat and our everlasting GOP wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are supposedly running down?
Why do we need to support 700+ military bases in other countries? And thousands of Generals with expensive entourages?
Why not spend the money at home for things people need, like healthcare access, repaired roads and bridges, affordable higher education, etc.
I will agree with you the wars in Iran and Afghanistan (yes begun by Republicans but continued under Democrat Obama) should be ended. I have no clear idea why we are still in Afghanistan."For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings." Hosea 6:6
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
The crazies are running the asylum!
I mean a fella gets locked up just one time you ain't ever gonna let me forget it.
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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Originally posted by kccd View PostWhy do we need yearly increases in defense spending when we are not under any specific threat"My favorite color in the alphabet is three." - Donald J. Trump
"The 'J' in my middle name stands for 'Jenius'" - Donald J. Trump
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Originally posted by Bill the Cat View PostBernie Sanders named Chair of the Senate Budget Committee
Maybe there's light at the end of the tunnel for America after all.
However I don't hold much hope that Biden/Pelosi/Schumer will give him a free reign. I'm expecting the net effect of this to be about one good piece of financial support for the American people that they wouldn't otherwise have gotten. It probably won't have any larger effect than that unfortunately. The centrists are too entrenched for there to be any support for the kind of radical assistance for the American people and businesses that they need.
Originally posted by rogue06 View PostBernie, like even most Republican politicians today, has little to no concern about balancing the budget."I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
"[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein
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Originally posted by Thoughtful Monk View PostI think this means we're going to see lots of money for existing and new social programs and cuts to defense spending."It ain't necessarily so
The things that you're liable
To read in the Bible
It ain't necessarily so."
Sportin' Life
Porgy & Bess, DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin
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Originally posted by Thoughtful Monk View Post
In one word: China.
Empires rise. Empires fall.
"It ain't necessarily so
The things that you're liable
To read in the Bible
It ain't necessarily so."
Sportin' Life
Porgy & Bess, DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin
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Originally posted by kccd View Post
Why do we need yearly increases in defense spending when we are not under any specific threat and our everlasting GOP wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are supposedly running down?
Why do we need to support 700+ military bases in other countries? And thousands of Generals with expensive entourages?
Originally posted by kccd View PostWhy not spend the money at home for things people need, like healthcare access, repaired roads and bridges, affordable higher education, etc.
However, the military-industrial complex has a place at the heart of US government, a powerful lobby, and provides a great many jobs.
Oh and just for interest - I found this which touches on organisations with power in government. https://medium.com/swlh/the-it-gover...x-4c6d8b52ee48
"It ain't necessarily so
The things that you're liable
To read in the Bible
It ain't necessarily so."
Sportin' Life
Porgy & Bess, DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin
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Originally posted by Starlight View Post
The Democrats went to heroic lengths under Clinton to balance the budget, after being given hugely unbalanced budgets as the legacy of Reagan and Bush Snr. But in hindsight, the Dems got nothing for their efforts. It didn't win them votes, and Bush Jr simply blew their balanced budget out of the water and created huge deficits again. There's no real political incentive for the Democrats to try again to fix the Republican's budget deficits as they don't get rewarded for it.
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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Originally posted by Reepicheep View Post
The United States is currently under threat, but the enemy is domestic and not foreign. The number of National Guard troops currently deployed to defend DC is over 3 times the number of US troops in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria combined. Sadly, the troops are being deployed in DC to protect Americans from Americans.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Thoughtful Monk View Post
Bernie comes from a generation that balanced the budget with defense cuts. They still think that even though its not really possible anymore:Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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Originally posted by Reepicheep View Post
The United States is currently under threat, but the enemy is domestic and not foreign. The number of National Guard troops currently deployed to defend DC is over 3 times the number of US troops in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria combined. Sadly, the troops are being deployed in DC to protect Americans from Americans.That's what
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