The US would like to see budget cuts in the military

[BitVyper]

Originally Posted by Fifthfiend

Your fifth grade social studies teacher was born forty years before blogs existed and infinity years before newspapers were reputable or non-laughable.

Check your twitter messages or get on AIM.

[CABAL49]

Is AIM still a thing? People still do that?

[BitVyper]

Originally Posted by CABAL49

Is AIM still a thing? People still do that?

I use Trillian

Its not quite so simple as getting a few hundred rich old white men to check the box marked "flowers and puppies" instead of "kill dem' darkies."

The real issue here is, as is usual, no limits on campaign contribution and the fact that special interest lobbyists get to go apeshit all over Washington without so much as a "by your leave."

So it's basically exactly that simple.

[Japan]

Originally Posted by BitVyper

So it's basically exactly that simple.

No, getting rich old white men to turn down loads of money is a lot more complex than getting them to stop endorsing the genocide of the perpetually tan.

[shiney]

Split hairs aside, it literally is as simple to get them to change their minds. It's the process involved to achieve that which is infinitely more difficulty.

[Kim]

I wouldn't say it's complex. Just hard.

[Japan]

but its like they have money and thats what makes them rich, so you'd think they don't need anymore, but if they didn't take money they'd never have had money in the first place. So like, if they stop taking money, do they stop being rich?

THE FUCK?!

I don't know about you guys, but that is some complexity that straight up blows my noodle.

[Flarecobra]

I honestly think they won't be able to really cut the cost of the military until they do a physical downsizing of the US's military size.

[Sifright]

Originally Posted by Flarecobra

I honestly think they won't be able to really cut the cost of the military until they do a physical downsizing of the US's military size.

It's pretty simple just scrap a bunch of the next generation projects for fighter jets and bombers, those programs cost tens of billions. You can be damn sure those tens of billions dont generate the same number of jobs as could be gained by spending the money else where.

[Jagos]

Case in point the F-35 is over budget, over technical, and downright a waste of time and resources.

If you put $1 trillion dollars to education instead of warfare, how many people would you help? How many schools? How many teachers would have new resources to do their jobs?