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If this does not show how out of touch this man is then what will?

And oh is is the leader of his party. I'm so proud of him. Standing up against those evil Republicans. Keeping every job he can find even if the country goes bankrupt.

Better cowboy poets than a Nascar team.

Oh my gosh, you're completely right! This twenty nine second video clip totally illustrates how completely out of touch this man is! I fear however that your superior reasoning skills are being wasted on deaf ears here. Go! Go and tell the others, for the good of the nation!!

>> ^bobknight33:

If this does not show how out of touch this man is then what will?
And oh is is the leader of his party. I'm so proud of him. Standing up against those evil Republicans. Keeping every job he can find even if the country goes bankrupt.

How about this, we cut funding for both the Cowboy Poet festival and national defense by 50%?

$500,000,000,000 - 1/2 of military budget
(plus) $50,000 - 1/2 of Cowboy poetry festival budget
_________________
$500,000,050,000 - Savings!

It's social welfare/entitlements that are bankrupting us, not the military.

50% of Americans pay NOTHING in taxes yet receive endless taxpayer-funded benefits. How long can this last?


>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

How about this, we cut funding for both the Cowboy Poet festival and national defense by 50%?
$500,000,000,000 - 1/2 of military budget
(plus) $50,000 - 1/2 of Cowboy poetry festival budget
_________________
$500,000,050,000 - Savings!

Iraq has cost us 3+ trillion dollars.
Our yearly spending on defense is 700-800 billion dollars.
Our national debt is 14 trillion dollars.

Explain to me how this kind of spending has not bankrupted us.

Without massive military spending, we'd have plenty of money to invest in our infrastructure and citizenry. How many teachers could you hire with 3 trillion dollars? How many schools could you build? How many books could you buy? Beyond that, why is it that you support spending that kills people and oppose spending that saves people? Have you ever given that any serious thought?

QM, there is now way you can justify what you said using the numbers.>> ^quantumushroom:
It's social welfare/entitlements that are bankrupting us, not the military.
50% of Americans pay NOTHING in taxes yet receive endless taxpayer-funded benefits. How long can this last?
>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
How about this, we cut funding for both the Cowboy Poet festival and national defense by 50%?
$500,000,000,000 - 1/2 of military budget
(plus) $50,000 - 1/2 of Cowboy poetry festival budget
_________________
$500,000,050,000 - Savings!

quantummushroom,

I'm not in favor of drastic cuts to military spending, but you can't say that defense spending isn't playing a role in bankrupting the US government. It's the single largest component of the US federal budget once you take the portion of discretionary spending that is military and add it into general defense spending.

And FYI, you can completely balance the budget and have the lower and middle classes pay the same or less in taxes if desired. We've done it in the past. Basic math and history shows it's entirely possible. There are many ways to skin a cat.

Everyone - check your ideologies at the door, and try actually solving the problems we have instead of advancing your agenda.

>> ^quantumushroom:

It's social welfare/entitlements that are bankrupting us, not the military.
50% of Americans pay NOTHING in taxes yet receive endless taxpayer-funded benefits. How long can this last?

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
How about this, we cut funding for both the Cowboy Poet festival and national defense by 50%?
$500,000,000,000 - 1/2 of military budget
(plus) $50,000 - 1/2 of Cowboy poetry festival budget
_________________
$500,000,050,000 - Savings!

Its funny how the rich and wealthy have almost completely eliminated their own taxes, the only ones paying now is the middle class poor, and most of that money goes into building an empire overseas, instead of being used in the US to benefit US citizens. Perhaps you should form a movement based on that tea-import incident that happened years ago?

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Cut the military budget? But then who would police the world? The world needs policing!!!

Wait a second. Isn't it the same people who complain about the US becoming a police state that defend military spending so fervently? I could be wrong about that.

or... we could just tax bajillionaires ... and guess what? we'd still have rich people!!!!!!

>> ^quantumushroom:

It's social welfare/entitlements that are bankrupting us, not the military.
50% of Americans pay NOTHING in taxes yet receive endless taxpayer-funded benefits. How long can this last?

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
How about this, we cut funding for both the Cowboy Poet festival and national defense by 50%?
$500,000,000,000 - 1/2 of military budget
(plus) $50,000 - 1/2 of Cowboy poetry festival budget
_________________
$500,000,050,000 - Savings!

Well peeps, I'm not a fan of huge military spending either, but we live on a planet where, as nations go, America is the only moral force. We're the World Police whether we want to be or not. And that's on top of having the same legitimate interests--and therefore commitments-- around the world as other nations.

These other First World nations that barely step up with resources to solve international problems can go fk themselves, IMO.

The US should absolutley reduce the military presence in some theaters but not for the same reasons as the anti-war crowd. If you're going to fight a war, FIGHT IT. Level cities. Starve the enemy, cut his balls off. Otherwise, get out.

Unfortunately, because this world is insane: false morality, a refusal to accept collateral damage and timidity at the sight of blood has made us unable to properly kill, and the result is more good people than necessary get killed.

The money "saved" on wars belongs to the people, not government. The trillions for the wars do not belong to government schools or cowboy poets. They should never be returned to the federal trough for "local" politicians to hand out to buy votes, though that's what happens.

I agree with Obama that fiscally-speaking, earmarks are a drop in the bucket (especially with 60 BILLION being lost to Medicare waste, fraud and abuse every year). Yet I challenge anyone to look your unemployed neighbor in the eye and tell them why the cowboy poets are short on cash, or why a university needs a half-million dollar grant to study why men don't like wearing condoms<a rel="nofollow" href=" <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/19/nih-funds-study-men-dont-like-use-condoms/">http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/19/nih-funds-study-men-dont-like-use-condoms/"> (yes, that happened).