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Poll: Cut?
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Medicare
16.67%
3 16.67%
Defense
72.22%
13 72.22%
Social Security
11.11%
2 11.11%
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Medicare, Defense or Social Security?
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RE: Medicare, Defense or Social Security?
(April 3, 2011 at 6:39 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote: There are many colossal hemorrhages of resources in the United States, including Medicare/Medicaid, Social Security and Department of Defense.

So in this thread, I ask, what and why you'd cut it.



I'd cut DoD funding to half of what it is now, but leave other things intact.

Yes. Even if we do manage to cut Defense spending by half, we'd still be the closest to our biggest rival: The European Union. With regards to actual countries, it'd still be over three times the number two: China.

Meanwhile, Social Security is in crisis, and healthcare is undergoing a massive overhaul. Why cut them?
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Messages In This Thread
RE: Medicare, Defense or Social Security? - by padraic - April 3, 2011 at 6:46 pm
RE: Medicare, Defense or Social Security? - by padraic - April 3, 2011 at 7:10 pm
RE: Medicare, Defense or Social Security? - by padraic - April 3, 2011 at 7:59 pm
RE: Medicare, Defense or Social Security? - by Shell B - April 3, 2011 at 8:01 pm
RE: Medicare, Defense or Social Security? - by padraic - April 3, 2011 at 8:21 pm
RE: Medicare, Defense or Social Security? - by Shell B - April 3, 2011 at 10:52 pm
RE: Medicare, Defense or Social Security? - by padraic - April 3, 2011 at 11:19 pm
RE: Medicare, Defense or Social Security? - by Ashendant - April 3, 2011 at 10:10 pm
RE: Medicare, Defense or Social Security? - by Shell B - April 3, 2011 at 11:24 pm
RE: Medicare, Defense or Social Security? - by padraic - April 4, 2011 at 7:06 pm
RE: Medicare, Defense or Social Security? - by Shell B - April 4, 2011 at 9:30 pm
RE: Medicare, Defense or Social Security? - by ib.me.ub - April 3, 2011 at 11:27 pm
RE: Medicare, Defense or Social Security? - by Minimalist - April 3, 2011 at 11:27 pm
RE: Medicare, Defense or Social Security? - by Violet - April 4, 2011 at 3:31 am
RE: Medicare, Defense or Social Security? - by Violet - April 4, 2011 at 9:18 pm
RE: Medicare, Defense or Social Security? - by Rev. Rye - April 4, 2011 at 10:57 pm
RE: Medicare, Defense or Social Security? - by Minimalist - April 4, 2011 at 11:37 pm
RE: Medicare, Defense or Social Security? - by Minimalist - April 6, 2011 at 12:20 pm
RE: Medicare, Defense or Social Security? - by Minimalist - April 7, 2011 at 12:55 am
RE: Medicare, Defense or Social Security? - by Violet - April 7, 2011 at 2:54 am
RE: Medicare, Defense or Social Security? - by Minimalist - April 7, 2011 at 12:35 pm

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