So The Right Believes itTakes Loads o' Cash to Fix Iraq and the Military but

[nosmokes]

all of our social problems including but not limited to an aging and failing infrastructure, a non-working health-care system, an education system that isn't educating anymore, a corrupt and crumbling banking and financial structure, an overloaded judicial system, an outdated an severely overcrowded penal system, that can all be fixed by eliminating waste and belt tightening?

that's a mighty strange pair of glasses that some folks look through.

[Deja Q]

1. Funny, conservatives usually bash Democrats by saying they like to spend to fix problems...

And how we're supposed to work hard to be successful, and not to procreate indiscriminately, and not to... screw it, it'd be easier to call the folks in power Liberals the way things are going. At least Liberals in terms of helping other countries, which is ironic since most of them don't like the same folks! :wow:

:shrug:

[noise]

2. They don't even

want military funding for soldiers...just for more privatization and no bid contracts.

IMO, in many respects (not all) the WoT is simply a class war waged by the so called elites, disguised by the use of unrelenting propaganda, fearmongering and appeals to patriotism (why isn't theirs questioned).

[onethatcares]

3. but you don't understand,

Iraq and the Military do not require us to pay taxes. The other items you talk about, well, they cost money, and to pay for them, taxes would have to be levied. Everyone in the United States of America is winning in the Iraq war and the military. Who wins if we fix the roads, healthcare, the penal system, the judicial system? Sheesh, next thing you'll be talking about a fair days' pay for a fair days work. That would never get off the ground.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. It would be laughable if it weren't so dangerous and expensive.

But, the generals and politicians still bamboozle us into thinking they need more money.

http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/ArmsTrade/Spending.asp#InContextUSMilitarySpendingVersusRestoftheWorld

In Context: U.S. Military Spending Versus Rest of the World

While FY 2008 budget requests for US military spending are known, for most other countries, the most recent data is from 2005 (at time of writing). Using US spending at that time, we can compare US military spending with the rest of the world:

* The US military spending was almost two-fifths of the total.
* The US military spending was almost 7 times larger than the Chinese budget, the second largest spender.
* The US military budget was almost 29 times as large as the combined spending of the six “rogue” states (Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria) who spent $14.65 billion.
* It was more than the combined spending of the next 14 nations.
* The United States and its close allies accounted for some two thirds to three-quarters of all military spending, depending on who you count as close allies (typically NATO countries, Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan and South Korea)
* The six potential “enemies,” Russia, and China together spent $139 billion, 30% of the U.S. military budget

[WinkyDink]

5. Funny how they like "throwing money at" something that will benefit

the cabal.

[SoCalDem]

7. Throwing money at a WAR, is hunkydorey..but everyone knows

that schools don't need money.. Why, when the government throws money at schools, they just waste it all on dumb stuff like books that weren't written by Ann Coulter, and paper that teenaged boys will doodle pictures of nekkid wimminfolks, and on food..when everyone knows that you can get all the calories a kid needs...right from the machine in the hallway that sells Doritos & Cokes..

[MiniMe]

6. They want to throw money at it, but they don't want to be taxed to pay for it

Just where do they think that all this money is coming from?

[ClintonTyree]

8. The Chinese

:evilgrin: They're buying all that useless paper the Treasury is printing. And the Treasury has shown no sign that they're going to slow down the printing presses at all. Some day the Chinese may call in all of that paper the Treasury has been printing. Then? :nuke: The whole shitty mess falls apart at the seams.