HOw do you like this guy's answer to the Q "Who'd keep us safer a (D) or (R) pres in 08?" He said an (R)will

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keep us "safer" by taking on North Korea, Iran, Pakistan and any others. My Q. is if you believe this, who and how would (we) pay for it if you also don't want to raise any kind of taxes or revenues? Would we just print more treasury bonds?

I know I know, cutting taxes raises revenues TO A POINT, but past that point if you keep bombing the world and cleaning up the messes, you really don't think our rising debt
($8 trillion +++) would ever be a problem? Voodoo economics?
Don't avoid the Question here, how do you think we would pay for these endless wars? Would we really get much bang for the buck if our whole domestic situation is neglected by spending only on defense?

Answer 1

war spending is a dead end. if you don't count the dead and wounded, think about the equipment that is being used, and will never be reused, except by the iraqis, perhaps. those lost ak 47's weren't free, either. much waste, more than we can think about right now, i'm sure.

i don't have a problem with funding a standing army, but to use these resourses so haphazardly, is just pouring our money down the drain. borrowing the money is even more ridiculous.

we should make sure that our domestic agendas are taken care of first. fighting the terrorists way over somewhere is great, but isn't it foolish not to guard our southern border.

there is no way to pay for these wars, if you cut taxes. i do not believe that any generation of monies by cutting taxes would fund those wars and maintain a balanced budget.

sweetpea, you stink.

Answer 2

It is nearly impossible to pay for a continuous war, let alone many.... We are digging a hole right now that will be very tough to get out of financially and neither cutting nor raising taxes will solve anything. The problem isn't the government doesn't have enough money its what they spend it on... If war money went into education and a proper health care system our country would be safe, clean, and technologically dominating the world. Now here's the problem... Republicans have a crap load of bad ideas. Democrats have no ideas. Neither party works well... And believe it or not ultraconservatives if we didn't fight any wars we would not be taken over!! the only reason Al Queda attacked us (as said by bin laden) is that we were messing with there country and tradition. But now we are on a slippery slope that will take a great leader to pull us out of... it will be tough but the US has done it before (couch cough washington, lincoln, clinton all pulled us out of wars).

Answer 3

The Iraq war only costs about 1% of the GDP per year. We can afford that, or several times that, without any problem. On the other hand, if we're too scared to fight our enemies, and as a result they get a nuclear weapon and nuke New York, that would be a problem. It'd cost a lot more than the Iraq war has.

The national debt is less than a single year's GDP. That's not an unreasonable amount of debt. When most people buy a house, they go into debt for much more than the amount of money they make in one year.

Answer 4

You are right, we are in a huge deficit. I don't know why everyone thinks that Republicans will help anyone with money. Yes they are good at getting money, but that's because they take it from the american taxpayers and give it to themselves (like Cheyney and Halliburton). And as we know with that Alaskan senator, not all of the republicans money is legit.

Answer 5

When did we go to war with Pakistan? We've been in Korea since 1950, so that's pretty much contained. So that leave Afghanistan and Iraq which are temporary in the bigger scheme of things. I think what we have here is another case of a liberal who doesn't know the issues or the facts behind them and is just whining.

Answer 6

Republicans make it safer and easier for the top 1% to profit, the rest of us have to pay for this and it makes the average American's life a lot harder then it needs to be.