Originally Posted by Eric5273

Do you fail to see that they are spending simply to spend? Lots of money is made by the military contractors -- military is the largest business in the United States with the exception of oil. And then they need to justify the high spending, so the politicians look for reasons to go to war, and even lie about the reasons in order to make an excuse to go to war.

Our military is 10 times stronger than it needs to be. If we were to cut military spending by 90%, we could still destroy the whole world and take on any enemy in the world.

I get the impression that you guys would not mind if they took 90% of your income in taxes, as long as they were spending it all on military. Well, keep that additude and we will surely be heading in that direction.

As for me, I have a major problem with most of my tax money going to the military. The military is certainly not more important than health care or education or infrastructure. How many people die per year from war and terrorism, and how many die from cancer and heart disease? Answer: more Americans died in the last 12 hous from those things than have died in the past 5 years from war & terrorism. Then look at how much money is spent on military and how much is spent on health care.

Perhaps there are things we need to be protected from besides terrorism.

Originally Posted by Eric5273

You have to get over the whole 9/11 thing buddy.

Originally Posted by Winston Churchill

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.