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Originally Posted by mookiemookie
Funny how it'ts just a billion here, a billion there, a tenth of a percentage point of GDP when it comes to war - but try proposing even a fraction of that being spent on domestic stimulus or healthcare, and all of a sudden it's Tea Party time and tyranny and Nazi Germany and cause to march in the streets with guns slung over your shoulder.
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Agreed! I'd like to see us try to spend 50% of our discretionary budget on Social programs Instead of defense. The right would have a cow!
Oh by the way. here's the Discretionary budget for 2008!
And here's what those evil former nazi's spent in 2005...surely obama wants to be just like hitler!! Funny how we throw around that word....but the country who started nazism has become more progressive in the last 70 years than the USA!
and I wonder why their economy is booming? maybe it's because they spend the
People's money on that it should be spent on:
The people!