RE: Medicare, Defense or Social Security?
April 4, 2011 at 3:31 am
(This post was last modified: April 4, 2011 at 3:43 am by Violet.)
Don't cut the defense budget: use it. Effectively, if you would please. American wars of ideology are beyond sickening to me (found the word finally: pragmatist). Sadly, throwing money at the defense budget due to cuts in Social Security and Medicare (both of which are relatively minor concerns compared to defense) won't solve the problem of poorly spent resources.
However, our spending a resource poorly does not mean we need to cut the size of said resource. Hence why I am the single vote so far in cutting the other two (much less important to the function of state) categories.
1: Kill your enemies. Dead enemies don't come back. Unless it was just a setback (ergo: you didn't really kill them).
2: Resources. If you kill them, you get their stuff. If you only kill some of them: you still get their stuff.
3: Nobody wants to declare war on you, because it will ensure their destruction by a third party, if not by you.
4: You can keep wars off of your own turf. Ensure that if you will not take a land: you still do damage to it. Ensure that you weaken your enemy more than yourself in the war.
5: A concentrated force of that size could easily exterminate countries which could then be populated. Open immigration right on up, and work the new refugees in your new territory.
6: Additional use for babies, anti-abortionists would love this.
7: A people that are largely militarily adept. Not only field more troops faster, but ensure that those who are not in the field have at least a basic understanding of military tactics, and can hopefully use a weapon to moderate effect.
8: Less focus on the country's internal 'problems': your people are swarmed in nationalism.
9: Exponentially growing power. Exponentially weakening enemies.
10: I said it was a good plan, so you should do it
Almost all of it could be better spent. That doesn't mean we shouldn't spend a great deal on defense (and especially offense).
However, our spending a resource poorly does not mean we need to cut the size of said resource. Hence why I am the single vote so far in cutting the other two (much less important to the function of state) categories.
(April 3, 2011 at 11:27 pm)ib.me.ub Wrote: I voted for defence. How could you possibly justify having such a large offence force.
1: Kill your enemies. Dead enemies don't come back. Unless it was just a setback (ergo: you didn't really kill them).
2: Resources. If you kill them, you get their stuff. If you only kill some of them: you still get their stuff.
3: Nobody wants to declare war on you, because it will ensure their destruction by a third party, if not by you.
4: You can keep wars off of your own turf. Ensure that if you will not take a land: you still do damage to it. Ensure that you weaken your enemy more than yourself in the war.
5: A concentrated force of that size could easily exterminate countries which could then be populated. Open immigration right on up, and work the new refugees in your new territory.
6: Additional use for babies, anti-abortionists would love this.
7: A people that are largely militarily adept. Not only field more troops faster, but ensure that those who are not in the field have at least a basic understanding of military tactics, and can hopefully use a weapon to moderate effect.
8: Less focus on the country's internal 'problems': your people are swarmed in nationalism.
9: Exponentially growing power. Exponentially weakening enemies.
10: I said it was a good plan, so you should do it
(April 4, 2011 at 12:26 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: How much of that 600billion could be better spent?? And still leave the USA in the secure position of the best defended country on the planet?? 120billion as orogenicman has suggested would go a bloody long way towards social security and medicare/aid.
Almost all of it could be better spent. That doesn't mean we shouldn't spend a great deal on defense (and especially offense).
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
