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Originally Posted by tony286
That would make sense but he wants to cut all spending. So no stimulus for that, I had heard to its so old and fucked up that to bring the infrastructure to a b+ would cost 5 trillion dollars. Now that would spur a boom lol.
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No, I don't want to cut all spending Tony.
I'm saying that IF we took and cut the military spending in half...we could take 1/4 of the enormous amount of money and re-train them and help the poor in our country.
We don't need all that military. Look at that link I posted and the chart to the right of it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...y_expenditures
That money is mostly being spent on foreign military bases and huge amounts to defense contractors. The actual amount of PEOPLE in the military that are in uniform isn't too great that we couldn't get them involved in the private sector.
Also...don't think of all of them as just grunt workers.
Who knows how many men are in the military that might be leaders of industry if they were in the private sector?
How many of them might be developing a cure for cancer?
Or might be the next Jimi Hendrix?
We don't know because they are in the military fighting our big enemy: Oh, that's right, we don't have a big enemy. Look at that chart:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...y_expenditures
I'm with you Tony... we do need to help people. But taxing people and giving MORE money to the govt. (that will go to the military) is not the answer. The govt. needs to be shrunk and the power needs to come back to the people.