Deficit hawks once again show their hypocrisy on military spending
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Deficit hawks once again show their hypocrisy on military spending
Sanders isn't wrong and the people who oppose Trump fully support him when it comes to making his military and secret intelligence groups bigger and stronger.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... -spending/
The Senate will be voting this week on the Trump military budget, which calls for a massive increase in defense spending.
I strongly oppose this legislation, just as I have all previous Trump military budgets. At a time when we have massive levels of income and wealth inequality; when half of our people are living paycheck to paycheck; when more than 500,000 Americans are homeless; and when public schools throughout the country are struggling to pay their teachers a livable salary, it is time to change our national priorities. It is time to invest in the working families of this country and not a bloated military budget.
I find it ironic that when I and other progressive members of Congress propose legislation to address the many unmet needs of workers, the elderly, the children, the sick and the poor, we are invariably asked, “How will we pay for it?” Yet we rarely hear that question with regard to huge increases in military spending, tax breaks for billionaires or massive subsidies for the fossil fuel industry.
Despite the fact that 87 million Americans are uninsured or underinsured, the establishment tells us every day that we cannot join the rest of the industrialized world and guarantee health care to all as a human right through a Medicare-for-all, single-payer system.
Even though roughly half of older Americans have no retirement savings and 20 percent of senior citizens struggle to survive on an income of less than $13,500 a year, we have been told by the corporate elite that we must cut Social Security.
While hundreds of thousands of bright young Americans are unable to go to college because of the outrageous cost and millions of Americans are drowning in student debt, we are told that we cannot afford to make public colleges and universities tuition free or cancel student debt.
At a time when 18 million families are paying more than half of their limited incomes on housing, we are told that it’s too expensive to guarantee everyone in the United States a decent place to live, affordable child care and a job that pays a living wage with decent benefits.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... -spending/
The Senate will be voting this week on the Trump military budget, which calls for a massive increase in defense spending.
I strongly oppose this legislation, just as I have all previous Trump military budgets. At a time when we have massive levels of income and wealth inequality; when half of our people are living paycheck to paycheck; when more than 500,000 Americans are homeless; and when public schools throughout the country are struggling to pay their teachers a livable salary, it is time to change our national priorities. It is time to invest in the working families of this country and not a bloated military budget.
I find it ironic that when I and other progressive members of Congress propose legislation to address the many unmet needs of workers, the elderly, the children, the sick and the poor, we are invariably asked, “How will we pay for it?” Yet we rarely hear that question with regard to huge increases in military spending, tax breaks for billionaires or massive subsidies for the fossil fuel industry.
Despite the fact that 87 million Americans are uninsured or underinsured, the establishment tells us every day that we cannot join the rest of the industrialized world and guarantee health care to all as a human right through a Medicare-for-all, single-payer system.
Even though roughly half of older Americans have no retirement savings and 20 percent of senior citizens struggle to survive on an income of less than $13,500 a year, we have been told by the corporate elite that we must cut Social Security.
While hundreds of thousands of bright young Americans are unable to go to college because of the outrageous cost and millions of Americans are drowning in student debt, we are told that we cannot afford to make public colleges and universities tuition free or cancel student debt.
At a time when 18 million families are paying more than half of their limited incomes on housing, we are told that it’s too expensive to guarantee everyone in the United States a decent place to live, affordable child care and a job that pays a living wage with decent benefits.
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Re: Deficit hawks once again show their hypocrisy on military spending
It's kinda sad. A 10% cut in military spending could do so much if spent elsewhere yet both sides line up to vote for increases. Our military is so bloated I doubt 10% would even be felt if some folks started to be held accountable for their spending.
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Re: Deficit hawks once again show their hypocrisy on military spending
Congress is going to approve to spend more than the military requested. This isn't the first time that has happened.
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Re: Deficit hawks once again show their hypocrisy on military spending
Maybe we can win a war if we spend more...
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Re: Deficit hawks once again show their hypocrisy on military spending
Isn't military spending how the USSR was brought down? I think we're doing the same thing to ourselves.
wut?
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Re: Deficit hawks once again show their hypocrisy on military spending
They are literally more than doubling parts of the budget that they ran on eliminating. One of those used to be referred to as Obama's slush fund. So the problem is obviously not specific to one party.
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Re: Deficit hawks once again show their hypocrisy on military spending
What do the Russians want us to do?
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Re: Deficit hawks once again show their hypocrisy on military spending
Lots of things have bi-partisan support so they never get mentioned, debated and the outrage is limited. The cut to Social Security benefits around 2014 is one. Most people had no clue SS benefits were cut because it had bi-partisan support and newspapers didn't run many articles on it.
Military spending is like FISA warrants and scooping up everyone's phone data or emails, if you are against expanding, you love the terrorists or Russians.
Back in the fall a few journalists went into Syria to do on the seen reports - they got freakin blasted by the major media as Assad supporters. Tulsi is a Russian Asset because she wanted to end US involvement in the Syrian civil war.
The Afghanistan Papers published by the WP revealed that Bush, Obama and most of Congress lied to public on Afghanistan for years. No House hearings expected.
If the party propaganda outlets don't tell people to be upset, they can ignore a shitload of things.
Military spending is like FISA warrants and scooping up everyone's phone data or emails, if you are against expanding, you love the terrorists or Russians.
Back in the fall a few journalists went into Syria to do on the seen reports - they got freakin blasted by the major media as Assad supporters. Tulsi is a Russian Asset because she wanted to end US involvement in the Syrian civil war.
The Afghanistan Papers published by the WP revealed that Bush, Obama and most of Congress lied to public on Afghanistan for years. No House hearings expected.
If the party propaganda outlets don't tell people to be upset, they can ignore a shitload of things.
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Re: Deficit hawks once again show their hypocrisy on military spending
As an example of bi-partisan idiocy. Silicon Valley doesn't want the competition - they are deemed a national security threat. Europe is being pushed by the US Gov to follow along but they've been buying the equipment all along.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4 ... -equipment
The House on Monday passed legislation that would bar the government from buying telecommunications equipment from companies deemed to be national security threats, such as Chinese telecom giant Huawei.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4 ... -equipment
The House on Monday passed legislation that would bar the government from buying telecommunications equipment from companies deemed to be national security threats, such as Chinese telecom giant Huawei.