Dell-Joey-Riot

[alysheba4]

it would be nice if this president would try to work with the otherside one fcking time too.........

[jms62]

Originally Posted by alysheba4

it would be nice if this president would try to work with the otherside one fcking time too.........

When your definition of "Work with the otherside" is to give them completely what they want without any changes don't be suprised if you receive resistance. Joey is a perfect example of the faction that is destroying the Republican party.

We All lose without this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compromise

[joeydb]

Originally Posted by jms62

When your definition of "Work with the otherside" is to give them completely what they want without any changes don't be suprised if you receive resistance. Joey is a perfect example of the faction that is destroying the Republican party.

We All lose without this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compromise

The makers should compromise with the takers? What, at (figurative) gunpoint?

[jms62]

Originally Posted by joeydb

The makers should compromise with the takers? What, at (figurative) gunpoint?

No. I believe the dems in this instance should stand firm and cut defense spending. Our repubs have been TAKING and lining the pockets of their buddies in the defense industry far too long which is the number 1 cause of why we are were we are financially.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by jms62

No. I believe the dems in this instance should stand firm and cut defense spending. Our repubs have been TAKING and lining the pockets of their buddies in the defense industry far too long which is the number 1 cause of why we are were we are financially.

[joeydb]

Originally Posted by jms62

No. I believe the dems in this instance should stand firm and cut defense spending. Our repubs have been TAKING and lining the pockets of their buddies in the defense industry far too long which is the number 1 cause of why we are were we are financially.

Defense is the ONLY thing liberals ever want to cut. Give surrender a chance...

Believe it or not, there is common ground. I'm a conservative and I support national defense, and more is better to a point (emphasis intended).

However, besides getting out of Afghanistan, I'd be the first to point out that we never should have went into Iraq under George W. Bush. How did Colin Powell make that presentation to the U.N. that showed evidence for "Weapons of Mass Destruction"? Somebody really screwed up.

But even aside from that - how long is too long to maintain an American "tripwire" force on the 38th parallel? I think 60 years is plenty, don't you guys? What did deployment, support, hardware, supplies, etc. cost over 60 years? Or, since Korea was "U.N. Police Action", let's bill the U.N. (a.k.a other countries) for the costs including a profit for us. This at the same time as we reduce our payments to the U.N. from 22% of their operating capital down to the lowest contributing large nations of around 1.6% for Russia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations#Funding

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by joeydb

Defense is the ONLY thing liberals ever want to cut. Give surrender a chance...

Believe it or not, there is common ground. I'm a conservative and I support national defense, and more is better to a point (emphasis intended).

However, besides getting out of Afghanistan, I'd be the first to point out that we never should have went into Iraq under George W. Bush. How did Colin Powell make that presentation to the U.N. that showed evidence for "Weapons of Mass Destruction"? Somebody really screwed up.

But even aside from that - how long is too long to maintain an American "tripwire" force on the 38th parallel? I think 60 years is plenty, don't you guys? What did deployment, support, hardware, supplies, etc. cost over 60 years? Or, since Korea was "U.N. Police Action", let's bill the U.N. (a.k.a other countries) for the costs including a profit for us. This at the same time as we reduce our payments to the U.N. from 23% of their operating capital down to the lowest contributing large nations of around 11%.

more is better? are you seriously advocating spending more on defense than we do now?

if we were to have a smaller military, not going into iraq would be a reality. but hey, we have all these soldiers, sailors and airmen, so we use them.

have you actually looked to see just how much we spend each year on defense? what portion of the federal budget goes to defense? how our spending matches up to the next nine largest militaries? most of the next nine are our allies. two of the nine are china and russia. russia's spending is equal to france. or to england.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...y_expenditures

i've posted the above before.


note this graph:

defense graph.png


that's our spending compared to the next four largest militaries.

[jms62]

Originally Posted by Danzig

more is better? are you seriously advocating spending more on defense than we do now?

if we were to have a smaller military, not going into iraq would be a reality. but hey, we have all these soldiers, sailors and airmen, so we use them.

have you actually looked to see just how much we spend each year on defense? what portion of the federal budget goes to defense? how our spending matches up to the next nine largest militaries? most of the next nine are our allies. two of the nine are china and russia. russia's spending is equal to france. or to england.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...y_expenditures

i've posted the above before.


note this graph:

Attachment 2072


that's our spending compared to the next four largest militaries.

Cut it to 300 and it still is more then double. But then Dell will say if you do that you will get invaded

If you fight smarter by using drones which are much cheaper then boots on the ground or bombing from a mile up and some innocent civilian gets killed then damn you because an innocent civilian was killed. When you counter with how many innocent civilians get killed in a ground war or bombing from a mile up you get crickets. I would say logic dictates that many more innocent civilians are killed by conventional warefare.

[joeydb]

Originally Posted by Danzig

more is better? are you seriously advocating spending more on defense than we do now?

if we were to have a smaller military, not going into iraq would be a reality. but hey, we have all these soldiers, sailors and airmen, so we use them.

have you actually looked to see just how much we spend each year on defense? what portion of the federal budget goes to defense? how our spending matches up to the next nine largest militaries? most of the next nine are our allies. two of the nine are china and russia. russia's spending is equal to france. or to england.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...y_expenditures

i've posted the above before.


note this graph:

Attachment 2072


that's our spending compared to the next four largest militaries.

When I said more is better up to a point, that was just a principle. I did not mean that in reference to today's level not being enough. I would let the experts tackle that one.

But I am serious about the 60 years and counting in Korea. What's the end-strategy for that deployment?