[quote=harvey]Here is the fact that overwhelms all others:
Military Expenditures
Yeah, “we’ve got China and Russia…” What a joke.
Anyone who claims that there is no room to cut military spending is oblivious to basic reality.
The specifics hardly even matter – we could cut 50% across the board and still dominate.
Russia would have to spend about 40% of their GDP to even approach the size of our military.
China? Yeah, they’re going to start a war with their biggest customer…
Iran’s budget is about 1% of ours. Less than 1/3 of Canada’s.
But the bogey men are out there!
I check back in here and see that nothing has changed: Allan’s posts are a string of arbitrary references to history that are devoid of any actual coherent argument or position – it almost sounds like he’s making a point, but he never does.
And of course Obama is still the devil because of NDAA et. al. – gotta get that one in every time while we ignore the 99% of other lawmakers who support the same polices also.
Allan, it’s been a while. I’m sure you had the time to read the book on Constitutional law and executive power that I recommended to you – twice. Since you have such a strong interest in understanding who is responsible for these policies, I’m sure you jumped right on it.
Oh, so what’s your donation to the ACLU this year – one of the few organizations that have the will and the means to take on this fight? I’ve already made my donation, but I’ll make an additional one to match yours.
You are doing something, right? Not just complaining? I’d hate to think you were just posting here so that you can feel smart.
Keep pushing folks, and maybe we’ll get to hear him pull out the “big words…”[/quote]
