Sorry mate, but you didn't think it through. Like the OP.
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Originally Posted by Jesus H Christ
Stop beating your fucking drum and being a tool. Military spending is out of control. I was watching C-span this morning as congressional representatives for The U.S. DoD cry about they've cut back so much, bases have to ration their toilet paper and how the Marines are using obsolete equipment bla bla bla.
Fuck that. We have 11 active aircraft carriers and building 2 more at $14 billion a pop. The rest of the worlds active carriers in comparison to ours is 3. Or why are we building Raptors for a $150 million totaling $ 65 billion? Or, how does the DoD lose $8.7 billion?
Here's a great idea, stop building aircraft carriers, raptors, watch our money, pay the soldiers, and buy toilet paper. Better yet, bring them fucking home. |
Yes let's stop building all this expensive hardware, give the Marines a decent gun and bullet proof vest and hey ho.
Anyway all that hardware's made in China, Japan and India anyway.
Oh shit!!!! It's made in the good old US of A.
Cutting spending on the hardware is one way of cutting the budget. It illustrates my point so well. It will mean Americans will get laid off, because they're not building stuff, factories close, the factories making the components for the Warships, planes and tanks close. The businesses all the way down to the ones who supply the toilet paper <pun intended> are facing hardship.
Excellent place to cut. But the hardware spending employs US citizens making that stuff. Who will go onto the SS budget, because it's cheaper to keep them unemployed.
The money has to be found and finding it by cutting somewhere and cutting benefits is only going to shave the deficit. The cuts will bite into employment, firstly Government employees then the suppliers they buy from.
The money the Government loans flows INTO the US. It props up the economy. Think of it as being on a life support. Turn off a tap a little bit and the patient has problems. Even money given to the layabout scroungers who have never worked in their life is money in the system, they don't put it under the mattress, they buy stuff with it. At places that employee people who buy stuff, like porn site memberships.
Start laying off workers and the cuts go deeper. But that's where they will be made.