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Originally Posted by ruff
Perhaps if we weren't spending so much on useless wars we might save a buck or two. How much does defense get compared to education or healthcare? There are our priorities and there are politician's priorities. Right now, the middle class is getting the short end of the stick. Without taxes to pay for our roads, parks, highways, medicare, education, and the good things the government actually does provide for us, we would be at the whim of the "market". The oligarchs will have won.
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I agree with that 100%.
We DO need govt. and we DO need govt. to do the things that it does very well.
We DON'T need govt. to invade other countries and spend over 1 TRILLION dollars a year on "Defense" (what a joke...we haven't had another country invade us since the war of 1812), Nuclear weapons, and "Homeland Security"
Hundreds of billions of dollars could be freed up from that to take care of the poor in our own country and to build our infrastructure and balance the budget.
But Republicans will NEVER do that because of their cronies in the military weapons industry. And Democrats don't do anything either because they get money from them too.
2 Parties...both together have fucked our country.
