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<blockquote data-quote="LarryBird" data-source="post: 3974093" data-attributes="member: 76548">You know what, for the conservatives who say that liberals want to spend at an irresponsible level on social welfare programs, and green infrastructure, and etc etc. That there&#039;s not enough money to pay for it, and that we&#039;d need massive tax increases, and the national debt would balloon out of control. Here&#039;s a fiscally responsible idea: we cut military spending by 75%. This will not include the hidden black budget or cia/paramilitary budgets. That money actually gets <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/censored2.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="Censored2&nbsp; &nbsp; :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" /> done. The military itself is bloated. The depots and other governmental agencies who supply and support it are disgusting wastes of money. I&#039;ve seen it firsthand. Try and catch somebody working on a military supply/logistics location, I dare you. There might be like 14 people actively working, while the other 3500 play basketball or horseshoes or softball or insert random thing that is not working here.So if we take $640B down to $160B per year on the Military for a mandated 10 years. We adjust for inflation each year on these established numbers for the duration. That would give us an $480B per year to work with and make us no less safe than we are right now. Zero change in your safety.We&#039;d have roughly $5T to use on improvement and modernization of the United States, and the daily lives and well-being of it&#039;s citizens. That&#039;ll get a lot done. Nobody will yet, have caught up to us militarily as we stand today, in that 10 year span of 75% reduction of military spending period.We can review it at the end of 10 years and see if we want to go back to spending almost half of the gdp on military or if we want to continue spending our money on our country and making it great again, liberal style.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="LarryBird, post: 3974093, member: 76548"] You know what, for the conservatives who say that liberals want to spend at an irresponsible level on social welfare programs, and green infrastructure, and etc etc. That there's not enough money to pay for it, and that we'd need massive tax increases, and the national debt would balloon out of control. Here's a fiscally responsible idea: we cut military spending by 75%. This will not include the hidden black budget or cia/paramilitary budgets. That money actually gets :censored: done. The military itself is bloated. The depots and other governmental agencies who supply and support it are disgusting wastes of money. I've seen it firsthand. Try and catch somebody working on a military supply/logistics location, I dare you. There might be like 14 people actively working, while the other 3500 play basketball or horseshoes or softball or insert random thing that is not working here. So if we take $640B down to $160B per year on the Military for a mandated 10 years. We adjust for inflation each year on these established numbers for the duration. That would give us an $480B per year to work with and make us no less safe than we are right now. Zero change in your safety. We'd have roughly $5T to use on improvement and modernization of the United States, and the daily lives and well-being of it's citizens. That'll get a lot done. Nobody will yet, have caught up to us militarily as we stand today, in that 10 year span of 75% reduction of military spending period. We can review it at the end of 10 years and see if we want to go back to spending almost half of the gdp on military or if we want to continue spending our money on our country and making it great again, liberal style. [/QUOTE]

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