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Originally Posted by Flash G
4.) Savings of roughly $200 Billion per year.
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Show how and where you got this number from. Is it POA (plucked out of air).
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Originally Posted by Kjakk
The point here is that there are negatives to McCain, if you don't believe the post here, look it up for yourself.
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I personally don't like any of the candidates. You would think that in a nation of 330 million people we could find better people to run this country.
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Originally Posted by Brennon
Why redeploy? Not our problem. Israel has 200-300 nuclear missles; they can wipe out the middle east in a matter of hours. We merely hold them back from protecting themselves. If they get attacked, they can handle it. Our meddling in the affairs of the world are what create terrorism. (e.g. black ops missions going back 70 years) What's in our best interest is to end any foreign occupation as we simply cannot afford it. We have a one trillion dollar a year empire which we have no way of maintaining.
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A nuclear war in the middle east would be disasterous for our economy.
Sixty seven years ago we were fighting WW2. We're not occupying Germany and Japan or South Korea. We can afford a stong national defense or we will no longer be a nation.
The President's budget for 2008 totals $2.9 trillion. Percentages in parentheses indicate percentage change compared to 2007. This budget request is broken down by the following expenditures:
Mandatory spending: $1.788 trillion (+4.2%)
$608 billion (+4.5%) - Social Security
$386 billion (+5.2%) - Medicare
$209 billion (+5.6%) - Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
$324 billion (+1.8%) - Unemployment/Welfare/Other mandatory spending
$261 billion (+9.2%) - Interest on National Debt
Discretionary spending: $1.114 trillion (+3.1%)
$481.4 billion (+12.1%) - United States Department of Defense
$145.2 billion (+45.8%) - Global War on Terror
$69.3 billion (+0.3%) - Health and Human Services
$56.0 billion (+0.0%) - United States Department of Education
$39.4 billion (+18.7%) - United States Department of Veterans Affairs
$35.2 billion (+1.4%) - US Department of Housing and Urban Development
$35.0 billion (+22.0%) - State and Other International Programs
$34.3 billion (+7.2%) - Department of Homeland Security
$24.3 billion (+6.6%) - Energy
$20.2 billion (+4.1%) - Department of Justice
$20.2 billion (+3.1%) - Department of Agriculture
$17.3 billion (+6.8%) - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
$12.1 billion (+13.1%) - Department of Transportation
$12.1 billion (+6.1%) - Department of Treasury
$10.6 billion (+2.9%) - United States Department of the Interior
$10.6 billion (-9.4%) - United States Department of Labor
$51.8 billion (+9.7%) - Other On-budget Discretionary Spending
$39.0 billion - Other Off-budget Discretionary Spending
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Originally Posted by Brennon
BTW, all of what you're saying are extremely liberal ideas. (I'm not sure if you consider yourself Republican or not? Prior to 2000, that was the party line of the democrats)
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Put down the coolaid I'm not a liberal democrat.