Budget cuts, you're the President.

[Cinjin]

Military budget gets nailed first. They would be allocated only 8% of what they receive currently. Yep, we'd be forced to end certain "wars" in certain countries ... too damn bad. Future increased budgetary allocations would only be considered if the continental US were directly attacked by an aggressive hostile force.

Cin, 8% wouldn’t even cover military retiree pay. DoD spent about $713 billion in 2009 including around $200 billion on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Retiree pay for 2009 was about $73 billion. That’s a little more than 10% right there. That number is pay only. It doesn’t include healthcare costs.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_p...udget.html
http://actuary.defense.gov/cfo2009.pdf

The CEOs of both Health Insurance Companies and the Pharmaceuticals would be lined up in the streets and shot on site for crimes against humanity. (this one I'm not fucking kidding about. They are COVERED in blood money and I would volunteer to do it myself) Reporting RECORD FUCKING PROFITS year after year after year!!! Mother fucking blood sucking cock smoking pieces of maggot shit!

Pharmaceuticals do earn large profits. The industry average is around 20% of revenue. That’s right below networking and communications equipment manufactures and Internet service/retailers. The health insurance industry doesn’t have huge profit margins thoughout. ADDED: They still consistently have HUGE PROFIT MARGINS. While they do let people die by denying life saving services in some cases; earning huge profits is not something they are guilty of.

Those stats you show are NOT across the board. Granted, neither are these, but implying that health insurance is barely getting by is laughable. Also, I don't see several major players on that list ... I wonder why that is?

Some of these on this list are up 12, 15, 20, even 47% from previous years and they are in the health insurance business. It equals hundreds of millions of dollars. And by the way, that's AFTER they pay the filthy lobbyists, politicians and lawyers their outrageous cuts.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/f...index.html




As for the military's 8%, I was exaggerating how much they need to be cut, but I still wouldn't give them a dime more than 20%. Fuck 'em. Sell some jets, auction some tanks ... have a fucking bake sale! We don't need them and more importantly, we don't WANT them.