U.S. military spending: increase by ~10%? By cutting what spending elsewhere?

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Noon / ET 17/02/27

BBC / World News reports the Trump administration has or plans to propose a ~$54 $Billion $Dollar military spending increase, reportedly a ~10% increase, with funds taken from other federal spending, mainly domestic spending.

Is this a good idea?
Is there a reason to beef up what is already the world's most able military; while our infrastructure around the nation is crumbling? Lead contaminated municipal water, water-main breaks, and collapsing bridges? And in this backdrop, we need more nukes? We don't use the ones we have.

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Nope.
It is an absolute gift to the Military Industrial Complex.

Expect more of the same.

Generals running the Gov.
So much for civilian control.

As it is total defense spending is well over 50% of our budget.
Sickening.
 
sequestor has robbed the AF of reliable spare parts -having to scrounge "boneyards"
( museums/old storage) for spare parts.

Trump says no reducing SSA/Medicare.

Maybe he'll shut down the EPA *lol*
 
Pie Chart conceptualization seems to be lost on them.

More guns = less butter

Even if Nero didn't fiddle while Rome burned, it's still an enlightening metaphor. Just what problem is President Trump trying to solve? The under-paid & impoverished military contractor problem?

Let's see how the Trumpster handles the reported re-negotiation of the F-35 contract.
 
"maybe you guys will get a clue as to how Cold War 2.0 spending is a gigantic waste" #6

- OR -

Perhaps that was the inspiration for this topic in the first place.
 
sear said:
Pie Chart conceptualization seems to be lost on them.

More guns = less butter

Even if Nero didn't fiddle while Rome burned, it's still an enlightening metaphor. Just what problem is President Trump trying to solve? The under-paid & impoverished military contractor problem?

Let's see how the Trumpster handles the reported re-negotiation of the F-35 contract.
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actually if you spent more on military you get to hire more soldiers and put more bases which acts as income sources for towns all over the country
 
Obama already fixed our infrastructure, collapsing bridges, lead contamination, broken water mains, etc.. Obama fixed it all.

:dunno:
 
"actually if you spent more on military you get to hire more soldiers and put more bases which acts as income sources for towns all over the country" t #9

IF they were stationed in the U.S., perhaps.

"... today there are over 320,000 [U.S.] Army troops alone, deployed in 120 countries overseas. That's more than 60% of the entire [U.S.] Army." NBC-TV Nightly News March 9, '04

But the more practical question is, is that the best way to benefit the U.S. People and economy?

reductio ad absurdum: If it is, then why aren't we spending 100% of the U.S. federal budget on military ?!?!

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Dick from the Internet said:
You mean like his desire to restart the nuclear arms race?
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a reaction to a reaction by Putin to NATO expansion by Trump.. It's all part of Cold War 2.0

Trump’s tweet came shortly after Putin, during a defense ministry meeting, talked tough on Russia’s stockpile of nuclear weapons. Putin said that Russia is the strongest nation in the world but that it cannot rest.

“We need to strengthen the military potential of strategic nuclear forces, especially with missile complexes that can reliably penetrate any existing and prospective missile defense systems,” Putin said in an apparent reference to a planned NATO troop buildup in Eastern Europe.
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anatta said:
It's going to be a lot of your pal's McCain doing-although Obama initiated European Reassurance Initiative
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You lack the ability to perform the mental gymnastics necessary to position yourself with antipathy for US (only) militarism while at the same time hanging upside down and sucking Trump's military lovin cock.
 
Micawber said:
You lack the ability to perform the mental gymnastics necessary to position yourself with antipathy for US (only) militarism while at the same time hanging upside down and sucking Trump's military lovin cock.
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you have always been unable to see full circle..it's partisanship hatred robbing your brain of oxygen i suppose.

Go back to 1989 as I've told you many times with the fall of the USSR and promises of no NATO expansion past E.Germany....it's how we got to where we are -not Crimea not Russian jets buzzing USShipping..
 
We need to increase the defense budget because you can be sure dump will take us into another war.

After all the defense contractors need more money......rolling eyes.
 
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