Gun Control: Say What you Mean.

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Now as for military spending...



I think we can cut our military budget in half (there's 350 billion in spending cuts right there!) and still be outspending China and Russia combined. Oh, by the way, they hate each other. Don't think we need to worry about the UK. I think they're cool with our independence now. France won't be invading us anytime soon either.

Let me be blunt: As long as we keep pouring money into this bloated Cold War defense budget, we on the left don't need to concede one damn dime in social safety net or school budget cuts.

I'm going to precursor this by saying that I totally agree that we should cut military spending. However I think the often brought up statistic about our military budget is a deceptive one. If you express our military as a percentage of the GDP, it's not as outrageous as people think. It's about 4 percent, about the same as China, a tiny bit more than Russia, less than almost all of the middle east. It's more than all European countries except Greece, but then again they would have larger militaries if they didn't know we would bail them out.

Also it's a bit of a logical fallacy yourself to say that as long as there is military waste, other waste is okay. Everything is certainly capable of being examined and cut at the same time. Nor does the fact that the military is a huge welfare program exclude other programs from being useless or bad.

Military budgets by GDP: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications...4rank.html