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bmaestro · Feb 24, 2004, 02:12 pm

Look, I'm not a fan of the military in general. I think its bloated beyond any reasonable size. But honestly, we've screwed so much with our foriegn policy that the truth is, people hate the US. Of course there's countries that support us, but if WE disamrmed, we would be a target. We already are a target (see the past ?? years of anti-US terrorism).

My point, which is now completely buried in a petty argument about the military, is that the government spends most of the taxpayers' money on the military. If you're considering social programs to be theft, consider the military to be theft on a grand scale, because about 50-100 times the amount being spent on social programs goes to the military (see http://www.truemajority.org/oreo)) Personally, I would like to continue paying taxes and see social programs increase while military decreased. I'd like to see the buget deficit and the federal debt removed (which would be real economic stimulus, no bullshit tax cuts).

To bring it full circle back to the topic, arresting people asking for welfare checks is so stupid (read my earlier post). If you're concerned about people consentually robbing you, you have to look at the military, cause thats where about 90% of what they rob from you goes to.

Peace,
B

Edit: Are you all incapable of grasping liberal sarcasm? In the post where i recomended using the money you get from not having to arrest people to buy yourself a shotgun, i wasn't implying that I want to shoot poor people. By saying that you should start with the military, i was implying that the military is where all the stealings going on, not that I wanted the US government to disolve and give us all blingin' shotguns to defend ourselves with. Learn to recognize a sarcastic tone.

Feb 24, 2004, 02:12 pm	#18 (permalink) (top)
bmaestro Molten Ash Posts: 61	Look, I'm not a fan of the military in general. I think its bloated beyond any reasonable size. But honestly, we've screwed so much with our foriegn policy that the truth is, people hate the US. Of course there's countries that support us, but if WE disamrmed, we would be a target. We already are a target (see the past ?? years of anti-US terrorism). My point, which is now completely buried in a petty argument about the military, is that the government spends most of the taxpayers' money on the military. If you're considering social programs to be theft, consider the military to be theft on a grand scale, because about 50-100 times the amount being spent on social programs goes to the military (see http://www.truemajority.org/oreo)) Personally, I would like to continue paying taxes and see social programs increase while military decreased. I'd like to see the buget deficit and the federal debt removed (which would be real economic stimulus, no bullshit tax cuts). To bring it full circle back to the topic, arresting people asking for welfare checks is so stupid (read my earlier post). If you're concerned about people consentually robbing you, you have to look at the military, cause thats where about 90% of what they rob from you goes to. Peace, B Edit: Are you all incapable of grasping liberal sarcasm? In the post where i recomended using the money you get from not having to arrest people to buy yourself a shotgun, i wasn't implying that I want to shoot poor people. By saying that you should start with the military, i was implying that the military is where all the stealings going on, not that I wanted the US government to disolve and give us all blingin' shotguns to defend ourselves with. Learn to recognize a sarcastic tone.