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24. The defense budget is defending the wealth and income and growing the wealth and...
Thu Feb 19, 2015, 09:14 AM
Feb 2015

... income of the .1%.

Isn't that precious?

kick madokie Feb 2015 #1
And of course the situation is even worse than the chart, truebluegreen Feb 2015 #2
K & R for truth malaise Feb 2015 #3
The 2 penny answer is FRAUD. Pooka Fey Feb 2015 #4
Morford is required reading around here madokie Feb 2015 #5
If we can't afford to educate our children, to heal our sick or care for our elderly ... Scuba Feb 2015 #6
The same people who are making a killing off our defense spending madokie Feb 2015 #7
All the military might has to be used or some may take notice of the obscene waste. Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #11
The defense budget is defending the wealth and income and growing the wealth and... stillwaiting Feb 2015 #24
Wouldn't it be awesome if we paid those military contractors to do GOOD in the world think Feb 2015 #8
No doubt about that madokie Feb 2015 #9
Someday they may see the logic in it /nt think Feb 2015 #10
I'm a contractor.... Adrahil Feb 2015 #19
While it may be pie in the sky I truly hope you get the chance someday. Thank you for the response! think Feb 2015 #20
"Prussia is not a state that has an army, but an army that has a state." Mirabeau Tierra_y_Libertad Feb 2015 #12
k and r + a gazillion for this disgusting, obscene truth. niyad Feb 2015 #13
We have created a beast that must always be fed more. zeemike Feb 2015 #14
Meh. We're at war with those countries. ffr Feb 2015 #15
Did you forget your sarcasm smilie? 99th_Monkey Feb 2015 #18
? Really? You're not sure? n/t ffr Feb 2015 #23
Tumor indeed. JEB Feb 2015 #16
other spending migsan Feb 2015 #17
Just the opposite nichomachus Feb 2015 #21
Have to disagree with you on this point, although it sounds reasonable mrdmk Feb 2015 #22
There are a lot more things involved in the military, NM_Birder Feb 2015 #26
Yes, there is a lot more involved.... daleanime Feb 2015 #28
You think mandatory service, would not only improve the military operational capabilities, NM_Birder Feb 2015 #32
I think forcing people to be involved in the problem.... daleanime Feb 2015 #33
I don't think "forcing" people into service is a good thing, no. NM_Birder Feb 2015 #35
Would be fewer people killed by police... daleanime Feb 2015 #36
kind of a slippery isn't it ? NM_Birder Feb 2015 #38
Feel free to argue with yourself... daleanime Feb 2015 #41
Driven you from the field ? NM_Birder Feb 2015 #42
Hell yes..... daleanime Feb 2015 #29
The military budget does not "dwarf' all other expenditures. NM_Birder Feb 2015 #25
DUers DO support the men and women who serve. Just not the lying political fuckers who send them think Feb 2015 #27
+1 daleanime Feb 2015 #30
I think your wikipedia example, and the very specific selection of NM_Birder Feb 2015 #31
Do you think the Iraq war was a just & rightful cause? think Feb 2015 #34
Do you know anything about the Iraq war ? NM_Birder Feb 2015 #37
I guess he was for it. And the next one, too. Comrade Grumpy Feb 2015 #39
You make poor guesses, "comrade". NM_Birder Feb 2015 #40
Bravo!!! nt hifiguy Feb 2015 #44
Morford nails it yet again. hifiguy Feb 2015 #43
Can't be said enough. grahamhgreen Feb 2015 #45
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