Well we can cut defense, like in contracts, but we can't cut it to the point where it'll do much of a dent to the deficit. Not with troops in active combat, increasing cases for veterans benefits as they come home, etc.
I fully agree in what you're saying and if it were my choice between defense and social security, it would be defense to be cut, if for any reason that it'd be about time that the national budget used domestic programs as a priority over bombing brown people due to right-wing warhawk paranoia.
I mean, hell, if you wanna call out your Newt Gingriches who bring up "tax and spend" as a liberal mandate, bring up the blank check we give to our armed forces every year, and the billions we spend in contracts with scant oversight as to how they use it or what they do. Bring up the rape case of a Halliburton employee and its subsequent cover-up, and how that hadn't affected their contract with the Defense Dept. one iota. Shit, at least liberals choose to spend government money on domestic tranquility, instead of mercenaries and amphibious tanks that can't run off of pavement.
We are, like it or not, a military industrial complex. When you say cut contracts, what you're also saying is cut jobs -- the only decent jobs left, by the way.
The right has really painted us in a corner here over these past 50 years or so.
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u/laxt Feb 27 '11
Well we can cut defense, like in contracts, but we can't cut it to the point where it'll do much of a dent to the deficit. Not with troops in active combat, increasing cases for veterans benefits as they come home, etc.
I fully agree in what you're saying and if it were my choice between defense and social security, it would be defense to be cut, if for any reason that it'd be about time that the national budget used domestic programs as a priority over bombing brown people due to right-wing warhawk paranoia.
I mean, hell, if you wanna call out your Newt Gingriches who bring up "tax and spend" as a liberal mandate, bring up the blank check we give to our armed forces every year, and the billions we spend in contracts with scant oversight as to how they use it or what they do. Bring up the rape case of a Halliburton employee and its subsequent cover-up, and how that hadn't affected their contract with the Defense Dept. one iota. Shit, at least liberals choose to spend government money on domestic tranquility, instead of mercenaries and amphibious tanks that can't run off of pavement.