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It's a long comic, so I'm not going to inline it, you can click on the link.
What do you think of the proposal if it was serious? I think it wouldn't work with a dog, but do you think there's something that you could substitute that would work? Is out of the box thinking like that better or worse than plodding along the way we've always done it?
It's a long comic, so I'm not going to inline it, you can click on the link.
What do you think of the proposal if it was serious? I think it wouldn't work with a dog, but do you think there's something that you could substitute that would work? Is out of the box thinking like that better or worse than plodding along the way we've always done it?
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Date: 8/8/10 20:39 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 8/8/10 22:06 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 8/8/10 22:04 (UTC)Underlankers seems to have the right of it. End the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and start dialing back military funding to a sane level and use the money to scale down the debt instead.
The top ten countries in the world in terms of military expenditure and the amount they spent in 2009, in dollars:
1. United States: $663,225,000,000
2. China: 98,800,000,000
3. United Kingdom: 69,271,000,000
4. France: $67,316,000,000
5. Russian Federation: 61,000,000,000
6. Germany: 48,022,000,000
7. Japan: 46,859,000,000
8. Saudi Arabia: 39,257,000,000
9. Italy: 37,427,000,000
10. India: 36,600,000,000
I'm not suggesting the United States should pare it's military budget down to the level of India, nor am I even suggesting we match China's 98.8 billion dollar budget. But instead of outspending the next country on the list, China, by $564,455,000,000, how about we cut military expenditures to 400 billion dollars a year? We'd still be spending four times as much on our military than China does on there's while saving 263.3 billion dollars a year.
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Date: 8/8/10 22:26 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 8/8/10 22:33 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 8/8/10 22:37 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 8/8/10 23:35 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 8/8/10 23:38 (UTC)And yes, we spend a fair amount of money for a largely disarmed Germany and Japan. That's another aspect of military expenditures we should consider cutting.
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Date: 9/8/10 14:19 (UTC)It isn't the money we spend that is the problem, it is the money the EU countries don't spend. It distorts the statistics.
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Date: 9/8/10 14:36 (UTC)That reminds me...
Date: 8/8/10 22:45 (UTC)The issue of the deficit calls to mind the good old days when Republicans were getting their knickers in a twist because of a budget surplus.
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Date: 8/8/10 22:45 (UTC)End the war in Afganistan.
Bring US troops home from the WTF places they are like Germany.
End the war in US against drugs.
Release al drug and victimless crime offenders from jail and prison.
Sounds like a much better and more ethical solution than bribing wealthy people to save a puppy that has nothing to do with the government's financial trouble. Dogs are euthanized everyday in shelters so that douchebags can make some other douchegab rich by buying designer puppies.
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Date: 8/8/10 23:38 (UTC)LOL. The $100 trillion and a similar amount again would flow like a river out of DC to various political interest groups, misc. do goodery and general waste.
It is the American way.
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Date: 9/8/10 01:16 (UTC)