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Originally Posted by goober
Grover Norquist, believes that the military budget can be cut by 70%, without affecting national security, it's one of the ways the Bush tax cuts were justified. It costs a lot less to defend the US, than it costs to attack the rest of the world.
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When the US is spending more on its military than the next 14 nations together, and eight times what China spends, without including Afghanistan/Iraq/black operations/nuclear arsenal maintenance/veterans/homeland security, common sense says bring it home and position it as a defensive force. Common sense being in short supply when leadership invokes the fear mode and of no use to special interests, the pathetic percentage of highly inflated GDP is still being used to rationalize the bloated beyond belief US military.
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The US health system costs more than any other health system on the planet, how would implementing a different system (based on the many successful systems that cost half as much to operate) bankrupt the system?
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I don't think the general public or media is going to listen to anyone on this issue until universal health care is in place in a couple of states as examples of how US citizens are being screwed on health care costs. A significant economic recession could have the same affect.