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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
AP is already fact checking Trump's speech, surprise surprise its full of horse shit.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.And such a reduction in military spending would damage the American economy. Fucking up Boeing, Lockheed, Northrop, etc is the last thing your manufacturing sector needs right now.
Also, the end of the RNC has coincided with a uptick in the number of Americans googling 3rd party candidates.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/as-rnc-wraps-americans-google-third-party-candidates-1.2997524
edited 21st Jul '16 9:13:14 PM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Too Big To Fail without ruining several state economies. Some defense projects are filled with pork barrel spending to keep some representatives' constituents employed. If they fail, they aren't getting reelected and there will be quite the unemployment crisis.
While I'm fully in favor of taking half of the military's budget and giving it to NASA, damn the consequences, there are less disruptive options. One of the problems people have with the military is a number of dead-end projects. Taking money from there and putting it into improved basic equipment would improve things without any real economic upsets.
Ultimately, a lot of politicians forget that everything disrupts the economy. The question is whether the disruption is worth the gain.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.I don't think giving half the military budget to NASA is a good idea. NASA does just fine with quite a bit less money-NASA requires less people to do what it does.
Leviticus 19:34
I think it should be more about promoting how much NASA has invented that is currently used in every day life, more NASA budget means potentially better for us.
From modern insulation and scratch resistant lenses to the Super Soaker, inventions for space have filtered down to every day life. Hell smoke detectors, cat scans, and work out machines are a NASA inventions.
https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/756316512814718976
Probably the most savage tweet he's ever put out.
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The military itself also does decent investment into the sciences of its own. My lab actually gets a significant amount of medical funding from them, which really helps when you consider the NIH's recurring budget woes. I'm legally not allowed to say much about the research other than that it's aimed towards disaster relief and other important things like that, but if the research bears fruit it has civilian benefits as well. The Epipen is another example of that. As is ARPAnet.
edited 22nd Jul '16 1:59:43 AM by AlleyOop
In regards to Russia, I agree with Ron Paul. America shouldn't be expected or play the role of the world policemen. It would be much wiser, to pull out and leave the defense of Eastern Europe to the major European powers. If you look at the Big 4 in Europe, their GDP combined is significantly larger than China's. Russia is in decline and they have a population over twice as large. America shouldn't have to stay in Europe and certainly shouldn't stay in the Middle East. They don't have the money for it anymore.

...Is there a chance that what's left of the war hawks/neo-cons are going to go to Hillary or stay home? Are there enough of them to make a difference.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.