RE: Tea Party candidate taken behind the woodshed by an old man asking a simple question
June 21, 2014 at 6:45 pm
(This post was last modified: June 21, 2014 at 6:57 pm by DeistPaladin.)
(June 21, 2014 at 5:55 pm)Heywood Wrote: However to claim that all Church's exist for profit is asinine.The fact that religion is so lucrative is sufficient to question whether a church should be regarded as a non-profit. In fact, I can only wish my for-profit business were as profitable as a religion.
Quote:Further, to claim the services of a Church offer no value to community is equally ridiculous.The primary product that churches offer is one you can only enjoy after you die and can't confirm that it really is real.
(June 21, 2014 at 6:14 pm)Heywood Wrote: I'm not opposed to cutting military spending to help balance the budget. Cutting it by half as others have suggested? My gut tells me such a drastic cut is untenable.
If you're interested in facts, we spend more on defense than the next four nations combined-and-then-doubled. If we cut our defense budget in half, we'd still be spending more than the next four nations combined.
Two of those nations, France and the UK, are our allies. Britain is unlikely to want a repossess us anytime soon. Another of these four is China, our principle trade partner.
Who is the dire enemy we must arm against? Our Cold War budget was to oppose the former Soviet Union. Now we face a bunch of angry mobs who haven't figured out that standing in a crowd of people celebrating by shooting their guns in the air is a bad idea. We used to face an adversary that could wipe us out in 30 minutes or less from bombs delivered by intercontinental ballistic missiles. Now we face an adversary that straps bombs to themselves and sometimes fail for want of a butane lighter.
The Cold War is over. Bush Sr. back in the early 90s promised a Peace Dividend with the cuts that could be made to defense. We're still waiting for those cuts some 20 years later.
Until those cuts materialize...
Not...
one...
dime...
...of cuts to anything else.
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