Originally published at: As CBO Shows How to Cut $1 Trillion From Pentagon, Progressives Urge Spending on ‘True Security’
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It’s a matter of priorities. No self respecting right wing fanatic would do anything a progressive wanted on principle alone. Make no mistake, with the exception of only a tiny miniscule handful of left leaning democrats, every other democrat and republican is a right wing fanatic.
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Avoid wasting even more by demobilizing the Pentagoons.
It has been a deadly racket since the Pentagram was built.
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“since the Pentagram was built”
And before. Was there ever a time with no war? We must really come to understand this human compulsion in order to eliminate it.
Do we need a military to protect the mean-spirited actions of our government?
Wasn’t the United Nations supposed to end war?
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Yeah, good luck with cutting any amount as long as Citizens United persists and the voters continue electing conservatives to both parties. Just ask the Military Complex that runs the show.
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the CBO is being generous to the military–the truth is we could cut the budget by 30%-40% without affecting our security–we just need to stop buying weapon systems we do not need–deciding we have enough planes-ships-bombs and missiles to protect ourselves with out any problem–we could even increase the compensation for our military personnel without affecting our security–improve support services to our disabled vets–since about 1/3 of our military budget buys the weapons–that is around $255 billion a year–or around $25 trillion over ten years(the time period proposed for the $3.5 trillion Biden reconciliation bill )–
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I think that the military companies have got themselves well distributed in every state. Which state will we cut? The states protect each other. Maybe a cut that hit all states equally?
Can Bernie offer to cut Vermont’s useless F35 plane program?
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I propose we reorganize our priorities and tell the weapons manufacturers that we do not want the weapons anymore --we need them to start manufacturing national renewable high speed electric rail system -mass transit for our cities–sustainable energy grids(solar -wind-wave-etc.)–these types of jobs are not only more sustainable for our degraded ecosphere–they also employ thousands more people in good paying jobs than the weapon manufacturers ever produced-we have lots of work that needs being done --buying the weapons so we can bomb the hell out of another poor third world country isn’t one of them
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Just wondering…how much of this spending bills is military?
How much is the government already spending on weapons?
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the weapons part of the $715 billion a year military budget is about $255 billion a year–just to compare–the reconciliation bill would cost $3.5 trillion over ten years --the military weapons buying would cost about $25 trillion over ten years–as far as I know --none of the reconciliation bill goes to the military–but as you can see --they are very well funded for an organization that just lost it’s third war in a row to poorly armed third world militias(Korea-Vietnam-Afghanistan/Iraq)
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Ever since the military industrial complex morphed into the military industrial media infotainment complex (MIMIC) during Saint Ron’s regime 40 years ago the goal has been not to win wars but to make occupations and wars eternal so that taxpayer funded corporate welfare for MIMIC never slows down.
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Spend more on the IRS to rid America of Tax evaders, gangsters and grifters. 5*
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The narrative of " NATIONAL SECURITY" has been the most outrageous lie ever told by the US government to it’s citizens. That BS has worked to screw the American people’s TRUE SECURITY for all of my life!
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To me it’s just economic.
Choice one, continue with what we have now.
Now, we have two corrupt political parties and 99% of US media pushing fantasies and lies to keep Americans misinformed while we pay the highest taxes on earth and get no representation for our taxes.
Now, most of our taxes go to the congressional-industrial-military complex, the most corrupt group of humans on earth. We get nothing for our taxes except our government making it unsafe for Americans to travel, and creating enemies who attack us for attacking them.
Choice two, end military spending and reverse Republican laws legalizing foreign entities purchasing judges and politicians.
For 40 years, we would STILL have to pay obligations to former soldiers, so we’d still need income taxes, but if we stopped adding to war costs, over time it would taper off. In 40 years, we could eliminate income taxes entirely, as they aren’t needed for anything but war - pretty much everything else the government does, like National Parks, is already self funding, and social security and medicare are already 100% funded without tax dollars.
Immediately, like tomorrow if we cut spending on pointless wars today, we would save enough to provide education and health care and a livable pension to all Americans
True security is where Costa Rica is going. No income taxes on a prosperous, well educated, and healthy population that does not have to fear enemies invading.
Would these be the same “progressives” who just donated millions of dollars to DNC consulting firms? Justice Dems are a pathetic joke. Stop voting for them and stop sending them money.
CBO report: timid, but a start.
Let’s add: restore our military establishment to its original, historic name: the United States Department of War.
Soldiers, sailors, Marines and later airmen fought and died under this aegis for more than 150 years. (Cue the Star Spangled Banner, segue into Battle Hymn of the Republic, then Taps.)
If that honest name was good enough for them, it’s good enough for us. Where is your patriotism?
Memo to corrupt military-contractor lobbyists and their spoon-fed Congress members: good luck winning public support for a grotesquely bloated US Department of War. I’ll hold your beer.
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As far as the investor class is concerned that 1 trillion dollar in cuts to Pentagon spending so as to help the poor and working class is the theft of 1 trillion dollars that they feel belongs to them by rights.