In fact I’m going to start a letter campaign writing all of my representatives petitioning them to redirect all domestic funding to the military.

Once the military is getting 99% of the budget (gotta set aside 1% for overhead) we can finally go to war with EVERYBODY. We’ll defeat them all and set up a one world government like star trek with replicators and shit.

Then we’ll get around to patching the pot holes in the streets, right?

China is expected to have a blue water navy as powerful as ours by about 2020.

Citation also needed.

Might be a little hard, since we’re talking about predictions…

And only a fool thinks that it would instantly go nuclear.”

And how would they get their army over here? And would they have enough ships to take the bodies back home? Without going nuclear, no one has any chance of invading the US, unless we let them. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.

Citation also needed.

It’s not going to happen.

Yeah, and that’s what the capitalist theorists said right up until World War I happened. “The Germans, French, British and Russians are too integrated and dependent on one another to go to war.”

In 20 years, our debt will be bad enough that Congress will likely just “cancel it.” China will be angry at us, and our response will likely be “come and collect, assholes.”

And only a fool thinks that it would instantly go nuclear.

It’s not going to happen. The only reason China has any economy is because we buy their shit. War will immediately bring that to an end which is why I don’t put a lot of stock in that scenario. Industrialized countries don’t wage war with other industrialized nations. We wage war against 2nd and 3rd world nations that we’re pretty sure we can defeat.

Fearing a war with China is as silly as fearing a martian invasion or an uprising of zombies.

He went off-base to a civilian electronics store (Radio Shack) and purchased the particular resistor he needed for $3.00 and tax…

“That spending spree at the end of the year is exactly what we did in the Navy when I was in back in the 70s.”

It was still that way in the 90′s. I bet there has been no change. I was a junior officer and at first wanted to try and not waste money on stuff we didn’t need until my chief and the command master chief bought me a few beers in the Philippines and explained to me how things really work.

“Dude, my card’s maxed out…but I think I can get the bank to increase my limit, so party’s still on for Saturday?”

“It’s cool man – I have a special fund to pay back the money I owe you. The PS3 I bought came from a totally different fund.”

“I don’t see why utilities should count towards what I owe – they’re like, unavoidable things you’d be paying anyways.”

These corporations are taking advantage of American patriotism and exploiting the tax payer, which is remarkably unpatriotic. But point out that they are receivers of corporate welfare and screwing taxpayers, and the fiscally responsible conservatives switch gears to defend them.

#2 Stephen

One simple thing could cut military spending.

It seems like there is always an “end of fiscal year” spending spree because they will not get as much money next year if they don’t spend all of this years allotment. Spend it all or we will not get as much next year.

That spending spree at the end of the year is exactly what we did in the Navy when I was in back in the 70s. It absolutely defeats any likelihood of budget shrinkage and very typical of the difference between spending your own money and someone else’s.