Repubs want to gift the Pentagon 5% above

[Brenda]

what Biden has requested. Like the insane amount of $813,000,000,000 which is already a $31 billion increase for the next fiscal year isn't already too fucking much! And didn't a lot of them vote against military aid to Ukraine? Guess they just want to keep the kickbacks rolling into their districts.

Polling by Data for Progress and the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen found 55% of all respondents are "somewhat" or "very concerned" about the $813 billion in Pentagon funding requested by the Biden administration for FY 2023, up from $782 billion this year.

There are very strong policy arguments to cut military spending significantly. Not only does the United States vastly outspend other nations, it doesn't effectively manage what it does spend... Pentagon spending is replete with waste and fraud both small (a spare parts maker with a 3,800% profit level) and large (the defective and dysfunctional F-35 program that will cost more than $1.7 trillion over its projected 50-year lifespan, according to the Project on Government Oversight). And money allocated to the Pentagon is money that could instead be spent on priority domestic and human needs, and to ensure true national security.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/07/poll-shows-majority-us-voters-opposed-record-level-pentagon-budget

[Irish_Dem]

1. But Congress says there is no money for school lunches.

[Cartoonist]

2. All of our military and high tech weapons

Couldn't defend us on 9/11..

[BlueTsunami2018]

6. I don't think much of anything would have stopped that.

Short of Al Gore taking his rightful place as President.

[Cartoonist]

7. Al Gore had a proposal for airport security.

It might have been effective, but the repubs said it was too expensive. This never comes up in discussions about 9/11

[ck4829]

3. If Republicans want to tack on crazy things to spending bills...

[KPN]

4. What a frigging mess this country is in. I'm fed up with this -- I want more of my tax dollars

going elsewhere, not into DoD.

I'm just fed up.

[Brenda]

8. Hey KPN

I just read your journal post about your brother - good news!

I've been fed up for a very long time.

We need serious changes with regards to where our tax dollars go by our leaders, not this go along to get along crap.

Dems throwing billions of dollars towards a dysfunctional Pentagon who never passed an audit and has zero accountability of their $35 trillion black hole is just wrong.

https://www.yahoo.com/video/pentagon-35-trillion-accounting-black-231154593.html

[DBoon]

5. red state welfare