Armed Chinese Troops in Texas!

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  • MayDay Malone
    MayDay Malone Posts: 641
    he still stands wrote:
    MayDay Malone wrote:
    Ask a lib what he DOES want to cut. Answer: the military. Ask them what else: blank stare.

    Not saying you are a lib, but if you believe that defense spending alone is what caused this debt, you might be misled. Its the entitlement programs that are bankrupting us- they must be reformed...

    Lib as in Libertarian? sort of.

    this is a good way to look at it:

    militaryspendingeconomist.gif

    http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailycha ... y-spending

    There are plenty of other areas that I would cut... if you cut military spending by 50% you get the national debt under control and you eliminate the interest on that debt (8% of the federal budget). Social security needs to be fixed and is unsustainable but I guess I haven't put enough thought into fixing it. I'd put about half of all this back into the country through education, infrastructure, and free pot fridays.


    Oh. I thought you were serious.

    $1 Trillion "stimulus" wasn't enough wasted on teachers unions and "shovel-ready jobs", huh?

    Anyways, good luck with your free-pot initiative...
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,874
    MayDay Malone wrote:
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    MayDay Malone wrote:
    I don''t tell you who to elect in Sweden, so.....


    ...and I agree, lets stop using our military to protect Sweden.
    like it or not, who we elect has a bearing on every country in the world. so he can have an opinion on who we elect if he wants to, because it directly effects his country...

    maybe if people tried looking at it from the point of view of someone other than a flag waving american then they might get where the poster is coming from.


    I don't get it. My flag is in the way.

    Why should Sweden care who we elect? Are you implying that what happens in America is important to the rest of the world? Doesn't that imply that we are MORE important than other countries, Gimme? Because I, and most Americans, don't care at all who Sweden elects...

    Sounds like you are waving your own US flag... and I know that's the last thing you would ever want to do with it.
    no, it implies that we are leaders in this world, and because we have the biggest dick, (biggest military) what we (the us) want in this world is what we get...

    ever hear of the un?

    we send ambassadors to the un, so yes it does matter who we elect because who we elect sets our foreign policy and what we do at the un, since we are a lifetime member and have permanent veto power. that is just one example of how who we elect effects the rest of the world... again, please think outside of your red white and blue colored glasses... you do not care who sweden elects because sweden's government and it's policies do not have any bearing on you and it does not have sway over your government...

    just look at the shirt in my avatar....and believe it or not, i have a huge flag on display in my basement behind my wall of guitar amps, and i have an american flag t shirt that i wear. not because i am a patriot, but because i am taking that symbol back from the republicans and neocons and warmongers and corporatists that would besmirch it or use that flag to do things that are not representative of my views. so yeah, the last thing i want to do is wave my flag :roll:
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,874
    chadwick wrote:
    dear gimmie,

    you have posted at least two posts in the last 24 hrs or so that i agree with. this is nice. thank you.
    thanks dude!

    yes it is nice haha..

    pretty much the only thing i have seen that we disagree on is the death penalty. for the most part, from what i see we have sort of similar views, i am just a little more to the left :D
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • he still stands
    he still stands Posts: 2,835
    MayDay Malone wrote:
    he still stands wrote:
    MayDay Malone wrote:
    Ask a lib what he DOES want to cut. Answer: the military. Ask them what else: blank stare.

    Not saying you are a lib, but if you believe that defense spending alone is what caused this debt, you might be misled. Its the entitlement programs that are bankrupting us- they must be reformed...

    Lib as in Libertarian? sort of.

    this is a good way to look at it:

    militaryspendingeconomist.gif

    http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailycha ... y-spending

    There are plenty of other areas that I would cut... if you cut military spending by 50% you get the national debt under control and you eliminate the interest on that debt (8% of the federal budget). Social security needs to be fixed and is unsustainable but I guess I haven't put enough thought into fixing it. I'd put about half of all this back into the country through education, infrastructure, and free pot fridays.


    Oh. I thought you were serious.

    $1 Trillion "stimulus" wasn't enough wasted on teachers unions and "shovel-ready jobs", huh?

    Anyways, good luck with your free-pot initiative...

    Why do you think I'm not serious? Because of a joke at the end of my post, or because you think the military is untouchable? Do you realize that if we cut the budget by 50% we'd still have the biggest military in the world by far... almost 3X as ib as China's... if WE CUT IT 50%. We can still have a huge army but we don't need to dominate the fucking globe and send young men to die for nothing when they're actually really fucking brave and think they're dying for their country. It is incredibly brave. But they're not dying for their country. That should be evident by now. Why not stop the murder?
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  • JOEJOEJOE
    JOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,841
    The Texas "scenario" is weak because it failed to mention the hypothetical catalyst for the Chinese arrival into Texas.
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    chadwick wrote:
    dear gimmie,

    you have posted at least two posts in the last 24 hrs or so that i agree with. this is nice. thank you.
    thanks dude!

    yes it is nice haha..

    pretty much the only thing i have seen that we disagree on is the death penalty. for the most part, from what i see we have sort of similar views, i am just a little more to the left :D
    and which diection am i? i myself haven't a clue...
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    no more forever."
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  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    Blowback is a concept many Americans fail to grasp, they incorrectly call it "blame America first".
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,874
    unsung wrote:
    Blowback is a concept many Americans fail to grasp, they incorrectly call it "blame America first".
    blowback is a good name for it. unfortunately it has far greater repercussions than a lot of people realize. i shudder to think of the blowback caused by the iraq war. we have created generations of america haters since 2003....
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • usamamasan1
    usamamasan1 Posts: 4,695
    MayDay Malone wrote:

    Ask a lib what he DOES want to cut. Answer: the military. Ask them what else: blank stare.

    Not saying you are a lib, but if you believe that defense spending alone is what caused this debt, you might be misled. Its the entitlement programs that are bankrupting us- they must be reformed...



    True story from today I thought I'd share...
    While riding my bike on the beach with my kid in tow, I overheard an elderly man start up a conversation with a similarly aged woman he apparently hadn't spoken to in some time.
    He says to her "So, are you still a big liberal or are you starting to pay attention to what's going on"?
    :lol:
  • MayDay Malone
    MayDay Malone Posts: 641
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    unsung wrote:
    Blowback is a concept many Americans fail to grasp, they incorrectly call it "blame America first".
    blowback is a good name for it. unfortunately it has far greater repercussions than a lot of people realize. i shudder to think of the blowback caused by the iraq war. we have created generations of america haters since 2003....


    Ought to make you happy.
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,874
    MayDay Malone wrote:
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    unsung wrote:
    Blowback is a concept many Americans fail to grasp, they incorrectly call it "blame America first".
    blowback is a good name for it. unfortunately it has far greater repercussions than a lot of people realize. i shudder to think of the blowback caused by the iraq war. we have created generations of america haters since 2003....


    Ought to make you happy.
    no it doesn't make me happy. it pisses me off.
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • MayDay Malone
    MayDay Malone Posts: 641
    usamamasan1 wrote:
    MayDay Malone wrote:

    Ask a lib what he DOES want to cut. Answer: the military. Ask them what else: blank stare.

    Not saying you are a lib, but if you believe that defense spending alone is what caused this debt, you might be misled. Its the entitlement programs that are bankrupting us- they must be reformed...



    True story from today I thought I'd share...
    While riding my bike on the beach with my kid in tow, I overheard an elderly man start up a conversation with a similarly aged woman he apparently hadn't spoken to in some time.
    He says to her "So, are you still a big liberal or are you starting to pay attention to what's going on"?
    :lol:


    :lol: Thank you for that. Until now, Its been a humorless week.
  • MayDay Malone
    MayDay Malone Posts: 641
    I jest, Gimme. I jest.
  • ONCE DEVIDED
    ONCE DEVIDED Posts: 1,131
    Ron Paul:

    Shutting down military bases and ceasing to deal with other nations with threats and violence is not isolationism. It is the opposite. Opening ourselves up to friendship, honest trade and diplomacy is the foreign policy of peace and prosperity. It is the only foreign policy that will not bankrupt us in short order, as our current actions most definitely will. I share the disappointment of the American people in the foreign policy rhetoric coming from the administration. The sad thing is, our foreign policy WILL change eventually, as Rome's did, when all budgetary and monetary tricks to fund it are exhausted.


    Sounds like a smart man. Such a pity that the republicans won't go near him
    He is just what that country needs

    If a foreign nation was in my country as was posted I would be taking up arms most certainly. I would be a terrorist, an insurgent
    It wouldn't be any religous reason as would probably be the brush I would be painted with
    Defence of my home, my family my community
    AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,874
    MayDay Malone wrote:
    Ask a lib what he DOES want to cut. Answer: the military. Ask them what else: blank stare.

    Not saying you are a lib, but if you believe that defense spending alone is what caused this debt, you might be misled. Its the entitlement programs that are bankrupting us- they must be reformed...
    we spend hundreds of billions of dollars each year on the military. 2 years ago the pentagon budget was over $700 billion. the navy was i think $100 billion. and what do we get for that?

    i say cut the military. first and foremost. our military is for DEFENSE of THIS COUNTRY. it is not to go on OFFENSE and wage wars on innocent countries who did nothing to provoke us. it is not to POLICE the rest of the world and step in to dethrone dictators that the state department views as "bad". it is not to invade countries like panama to depose it's leader. it is not to attack countries on behalf of other countries, as israel is trying to persuade us to do with iran...it is not to BRING FREEDOM to countries in the middle east...it is not to OCCUPY these countries and babysit as a new government takes over. it is not to NATIONBUILD and excort and protect the government contractors who made out like bandits in the iraq war. it is not to stay in "demilitarized zones" like the korean border. where in the constitution are we to have a standing army anyway???

    why are we still in germany? why are we still on the korean border? why are we building a huge base in northern australia? why are we still in the balkans? it is because it provides us with an easy route go on on OFFENSE against anyone who may prevent us from running the game the way we want to.

    cut the military first, and then i will talk about other cuts after that.
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • even flow - question mark
    even flow - question mark Posts: 1,568
    usamamasan1 wrote:
    Texans wouldn't let that shit happen. They are well armed ass kicking Americans. FUCK THAT!


    Seems that you had a president in power from Texas who created more of a problem then he did solve anything or to borrow a line from yourself, "texans wouldn't let that shit happen". Surprise 911 happened with Bushy in power and please remind me where his home state is. I thought so!

    Anyway I agree with the person who said "ONE" person won't be able to change this type of thing. Of course they can't. You wouldn't believe the people who used to, maybe post under other names who thought O'bama was the difference. From up here looks like the same ole status quo. Where is that third party? You know the party that isn't the same as the two parties rolled into one.

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  • usamamasan1
    usamamasan1 Posts: 4,695
    Strong military is pretty much as important as health. If you have neither, you ain't got shit.
    Assuming you got shit. If you don't got shit, ain't no point in having a military. Nobody wants what you gotz


    Woot
  • he still stands
    he still stands Posts: 2,835
    usamamasan1 wrote:
    Strong military is pretty much as important as health. If you have neither, you ain't got shit.
    Assuming you got shit. If you don't got shit, ain't no point in having a military. Nobody wants what you gotz


    Woot

    yeah, that's what they tought us the first day of Political Science 101
    Everything not forbidden is compulsory and eveything not compulsory is forbidden. You are free... free to do what the government says you can do.
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,874
    he still stands wrote:
    yeah, that's what they tought us the first day of Political Science 101
    :lol:
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    i say cut the military. first and foremost. our military is for DEFENSE of THIS COUNTRY.

    please don't. we canadians don't want to have to spend money on our own.
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