dayman

Thankfully I am not a staffer specializing in military budgets. But if you so promptly defend the rhetoric of the self-selected groupthink morons in congress who care more about accumulating evidence that they "support our troops!" than asking critical questions and providing actual oversight of our military as they are constitutionally mandated to do...then I suggest you rethink. I don't know if it is true or not but in the laughable 3rd party debate last night Gary Johnson claimed that a 43% reduction in military spending would take us back to 2003 levels. I know the wars have cost around 1.7 trillion, but Pentagon has spent an additional 1.3 trillion above inflation on it's non war budget since that time. Next to the Bush tax cuts, regardless of what your entitlement bashes will claim (and they have their own valid points) that's $3T from the DOD...making it the largest contributor to our debt aside from the Bush tax cuts over that period of time. Clintons last military budget was less than 33B, Bush's last budgets was well over 600B and now we're talking about increasing it an additional 2T over the next 10 years? And then there's Obama saying he'll keep it the same (which is foolish) and being put on the defensive? Let me ask you this? At what point does it stop? We spend way more than the rest of the world, more than most of the countries w/ significant military spending combined. Our military is a gigantic bureaucratic money sucking machine hell bent on preserving the status and privileges it achieved during the cold war...only the cold war is over. For all you socialist hating people out there, the American military is probably the largest and most lavishly funded socialist institution on earth. And when people suggest that cuts should be made and we should reevaluate our spending and priorities for it's use...they're met by hard line Repub backers (and sometimes D's and I's) with illogical yelling about how we need MORE MORE MORE money to keep "safe" and police the world. It's nonsense. Our military strength is unmatched, our spending is unmatched, and our meddling abroad is unmatched. Anyone who is serious about reducing the deficit would be a fool to mindlessly cheer a pitch for more military spending.

The military has all the money they need, they do not need more, they do not need what they have, and nobody in government watches over military spending or questions the military closely enough even about what they say they need. That is all.

If it takes more than an hour before I take my mourning dump on election day then there will be a recount. If not, no recount.

Honestly having no intention to vote for 3rd party this time around, the Rocky guy seemed the best in this **** show of a debate. Then Jill. Then Gary, Then Virgil Goode (although he is hilarious)

Anybody on board w/ this military spending increase is nuts. That's my opinion. Even Obama will spend too much. I'm stupid.

Virgil Goode is absolutely hilarious Well all independents not liking military spending

Starting now...WOOOOOO time to get funky

Nope...Romney was right. Any point that claims the nature of our military has changed is wrong. We need to cut things we don't absolutely need to pay for things we absolutely don't need.

...just start making steel and don't worry about it

K I'll be right back going to grab my NORML t-shirt and Perot coffee mug

Seriously, also then we would be better equipped to adapt to changes. First thing we should do is tell all the farmers to stop farming and make steel.

http://www.ora.tv/ora2012/thirdparty It's a party. Larry King hosting.

I've got an idea what if there was like a unit, in charge of the economy? And they planned it out so it all balanced out and everyone had a job and all the jobs were functioning in unity. Sounds perfect.

I think Obama was referring to Romney's support of prohibition

perhaps he frequents tanning beds often

Nixon was allowed to go to China. It's the way of the world.

"There's a lot of talk on Medicare: Make sure you Get the facts!"

...completely out of your mind....

lol I mean I skip over them a lot but every now and then I'll read it to see what the hell is actually going on ... often an insane rambling epimone heavy on figures of speech and smiley faces using a ton of words and saying nothing...I understand not having the time to write a short succinct post but my God

OC you are out of your 3rd grade mind plain and simple. Not b/c you support Romney either, b/c you post the posts you post.

It's completely fine and I would rather have ads/competitive campaigning than not. Also got a Nielsen journal w/ $30 bucks enclosed to start filing out this Thursday for the next 10 days...idk if it has anything to do with the election but it is timed perfectly to figure out what ads I get exposed to. So really you just feel like you are important.

I think Romney realized they sucked less than what he had been peddling for 5 or 6 years

Headline: Romney endorses Obama. - NY Times hehe

You can't create a panic Tasker...c'mon now you know that.

Hailing a foreign policy debate performance that shows you have no foreign policy. It's a hell of a spin.