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LamarkNewAge Member (Idle past 738 days) Posts: 2236 Joined: |
I was just reading a 2017 The Nation magazine I grabbed and Jeffrey Sachs said something that shocked even me. We spend $900 billion year! I just found that he has shared this shocking fact with numerous publications.
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quote: Trump says he wants to spend even more per year (of course he doesn't attribute it to and negative fiscal situations we are presently facing) and I never hear any alarm sounding on this one. The "sequestration", that cut a little from the military's massive growth of the past decade to decade and a half, has only inspired a discussion in the media of "how much we should restore" to those "big [bad] cuts" to the poor little military and security budget. Trump wants quite a lot in tax cuts too a well as infrastructure spending. I wonder if this is a strategic bankruptcy we have coming to our nation. Perhaps we need to start speaking more about this issue? Edited by Admin, : Fix Title.
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LamarkNewAge Member (Idle past 738 days) Posts: 2236 Joined:
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On May 6, he had an article titled The Military Debate the U. S. Really Needs.
It was in the May 7 New York Post and he was generally supportive of the "about $1 trillion that funds the Pentagon and the rest of the national defense ", as one would expect. But he seems to be annoyed at the endless b.s. about a 'readiness crisis' and the fact that the lies enabled the military budget to emerge not only "unsurprisingly" "unscathed" on the budget chopping block, but actually goaaye got yet another multi billion dollars funding pork up. The latest military fattening was a $15 billion dollars beef-up. Even Mike Bloomberg is getting concerned about this never ending trend. He must be concerned about another big tax cutting scheme since we still have a $500 billion dollars a year budget deficit due to the 2001 scheme. (a scheme that politicians lack the courage to terminate ) Every 20 years, there is a new GOP administration that comes in and offers the twin towers idea of huge tax cuts and massive military spending increases. And the twin pillars policy changes never get more than a slight roll back when the Democratic administration buffers the GOP administrations that keep coming in general succession. The rollback stage is eye-wash really. The general trend is ever lower taxes, higher military & security spending, with the predictable multi-hundred billion dollars in higher per year debt increases. Republican excuses for the first $5 trillion in higher debt increases are about the same ones we heard after we got the $10-12 trillion debt that Bush left, and the excuses for the $20 trillion debt their policies have brought us are about the same. There is no measure that any Democratic administration has brought the nation which is responsible for what we see in the (red ink stained ) fiscal situation for this year or any other year. Edited by LamarkNewAge, : No reason given.
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LamarkNewAge Member (Idle past 738 days) Posts: 2236 Joined:
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See USA Today member of Board of Contributors JAMES BOVARD article in June 27, 2017 titled TRUMP's RECKLESS SYRIA FOLLY
quote: There is a group Air Wars that tracks civilian casualty incidents and it is an honest group.
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LamarkNewAge Member (Idle past 738 days) Posts: 2236 Joined: |
It appears that we are looking at an actual increase of $167 billion per year.
The $716 budget was just signed. I just read it in the paper today. The article made an issue of Trump and McCain having a feud, but made no issue of the fiscal problems. This has been a developing situation and a lot of internal wrangling over how much the increase would be. The military industry is fat and fat begets fat. They have quite a lot of profits which gives the industry a massive amount of $ to spend to influence the media, congress, public,etc. on SPENDING EVEN MORE. The message is always: Spend more, ever more. More, More, More. We need to make sure the military spending gets the blame for the future fiscal woes. The industry pays for a lot of the media noise that will always points the finger of culpability elsewhere. Let us document this massive financial fraud committed against the nation and the people. Back a year ago, the Trump proposal was to increase the budget alot, but the proposed $603 billion a year was seen as too small for the GOP congress. They wanted it to be $621 billion a year.
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