Timmy we are going to have to disagree. We are not Costa Rica, who can get away without a military it seems. We can not. My daughter was living with a family in Costa Rica recently who live in a small town. Their 5 year old son has asthma and the medical center does not have an asthma specialist, so when he is having asthma problems he h…
Timmy we are going to have to disagree. We are not Costa Rica, who can get away without a military it seems. We can not. My daughter was living with a family in Costa Rica recently who live in a small town. Their 5 year old son has asthma and the medical center does not have an asthma specialist, so when he is having asthma problems he has to lie down and take it easy. This is not true for my daughter who also has asthma that has been controlled by medications until she outgrew the need to take regular ones, and now just has emergency ones like I do. So, Costa Rica probably cannot afford to have a military. I posit that we can afford to have one. People are in poverty in this country not because the money is going to the military, although I would like to get rid of the waste, but because we don't manage our nation in a way that ensures people and children will not be in poverty. The money is here in this country to take care of people, but we don't. We could be giving more money in welfare for example, but policies have taken that away. One of my aunts in Germany explained to me that the reason people there get more money from the government is that they don't want them to fall into a depression while they are getting it together. Wish that were the attitude here, but try telling that to Joe Manchin. We need to tax the wealthy at a higher percent, and we can start with billionaires and millionaires. We should not allow dual citizenship with countries that allow Americans to hide their money from taxation. Let Clarence Thomas' billionaire pal Crow move to the Caribbean Island where he has become a citizen to shelter his money. Biden has not yet undone all of Trumps and Reagans destruction of the government. We have enemies, and until they are gone, I think we do need a military.
Linda Weide: The Founders of the uSA hated standing armies. They knew that a federal military was a threat to liberty. The Army will be used against the people of America. It has been used before. Look at what happened to the Bonus Army in DC. Or look at the Coal Wars or the Draft Riots in NYC.
People don't get money from the government. The government has no money. Every dime the government has is taken from the workers of the USA.
Sure, the Fed prints currency to fund the government, but then we all pay the Inflation Tax to pay for that currency printing.
The USA can't afford to have a military. The Federal Government will pay $1 trillion in interest on the debt this year alone. That's $1 trillion going right to the people you want to tax even more.
Your support of the US Military and the debt it causes is making the rich richer.
Timmy we are going to have to disagree. We are not Costa Rica, who can get away without a military it seems. We can not. My daughter was living with a family in Costa Rica recently who live in a small town. Their 5 year old son has asthma and the medical center does not have an asthma specialist, so when he is having asthma problems he has to lie down and take it easy. This is not true for my daughter who also has asthma that has been controlled by medications until she outgrew the need to take regular ones, and now just has emergency ones like I do. So, Costa Rica probably cannot afford to have a military. I posit that we can afford to have one. People are in poverty in this country not because the money is going to the military, although I would like to get rid of the waste, but because we don't manage our nation in a way that ensures people and children will not be in poverty. The money is here in this country to take care of people, but we don't. We could be giving more money in welfare for example, but policies have taken that away. One of my aunts in Germany explained to me that the reason people there get more money from the government is that they don't want them to fall into a depression while they are getting it together. Wish that were the attitude here, but try telling that to Joe Manchin. We need to tax the wealthy at a higher percent, and we can start with billionaires and millionaires. We should not allow dual citizenship with countries that allow Americans to hide their money from taxation. Let Clarence Thomas' billionaire pal Crow move to the Caribbean Island where he has become a citizen to shelter his money. Biden has not yet undone all of Trumps and Reagans destruction of the government. We have enemies, and until they are gone, I think we do need a military.
Linda Weide: The Founders of the uSA hated standing armies. They knew that a federal military was a threat to liberty. The Army will be used against the people of America. It has been used before. Look at what happened to the Bonus Army in DC. Or look at the Coal Wars or the Draft Riots in NYC.
People don't get money from the government. The government has no money. Every dime the government has is taken from the workers of the USA.
Sure, the Fed prints currency to fund the government, but then we all pay the Inflation Tax to pay for that currency printing.
The USA can't afford to have a military. The Federal Government will pay $1 trillion in interest on the debt this year alone. That's $1 trillion going right to the people you want to tax even more.
Your support of the US Military and the debt it causes is making the rich richer.