If you're an elected dem who is open to cutting Social Security, or Medicare or S.N.A.P., Fuck you.

[JDPriestly]

341. If our debt is out of control, we should cut our military spending.

We have bases in hundreds of countries. We don't need that.

We don't need half of the equipment we have.

Let's cut our military budget and take care of the security of our people.

Let's improve our schools and clean our water and heal our sick. We should not be trying to put every evil person in the world into Guantanamo. We should take care of ourselves first.

If a foreigner comes to the US and sees all the homeless in Los Angeles, California, I think that foreigner's opinion of the US would worsen considerably. People in other countries don't have to take on monstrous debt to go to college if they do well enough in school to qualify. People in other countries (that I have lived in) get not only single payer, universal healthcare, but single payer, universal dental care as well. And every pre-school child can go to free, government-paid kindergarten half days beginning at the age of three.

We squander our money on a military that can't even respond to the real threats of our time. That is where we need to save money, not on social programs like Medicare and Social Security which will be fully paid for when we raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour and the cap on incomes so that the payroll tax applies to all incomes.

We need to save on the 50-60% of our tax revenue that goes for the military.