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The US Defence Budget is now greater than that of the next 25 countries put together!
I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio
Originally posted by DanS "When past and future wars are factored in, we spend more than half our government budget on war."
Don't know where you get that sound-bite, Che. Even if you only consider discretionary spending plus interest on the debt as the "government budget", you don't get there. This doesn't even consider Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and other "mandatory" spending in the mix.
Okay, you're right. Currently past, present, and future wars only account for 46% of the budget.
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
For those who sought revenge, an “eye-for-an-eye” has been met and surpassed, with estimates of up to 4,000 innocent civilians killed in Afghanistan along with unknown numbers of Taliban or Al Qaeda fighters.
Please tell me that this isn't based on the study that was discredited here months ago. Because if it is, I would put much credence into the rest of thier figures.
I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio
Che: OK, now that we've straightened out your numbers, let's move on to the rhetoric. Not including the vast majority of social programs in these calculations makes the conclusion meaningless in anything other than a soundbite. Certainly not illuminating.
I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891
Can anyone find data on the size of each country's military industry (annual sales in BN$)? It would be interesting to see who are the biggest net exporters and who are the biggest net importers of weapons. Then it wouldn't be difficult to see who the real warmongers are.
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
George Orwell
Originally posted by Saint Marcus
you don't need your army for defense. who's going to invade you? the cold war is over.
Just because Europeans have a fetish for fighting wars in their own countries doesn't mean we have to. We would rather fight wars over seas then here at home.
Which side are we on? We're on the side of the demons, Chief. We are evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction wherever we go. I'm surprised you didn't know that. --Saul Tigh
maybe we should rename the defense department, the peace department to help releive their confusion
Jon Miller
Jon Miller- I AM.CANADIAN
GENERATION 35: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.
Our military budgest isn't low at all considering how we need to have troops ready to fight the War of Terror, we are on the verge of war with Iraq, and we want to keep far ahead of potential competitors such as China.
"I'm moving to the Left" - Lancer
"I imagine the neighbors on your right are estatic." - Slowwhand
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