$45,000 for every man, woman, and child in this country

[jtomsic 5,000+ posts]

Kind of sad but I am actually banking on that fact because school just hasn’t paid off the debt I have accumulated acquiring this education.

lol

 

[pro-rabbit 5,000+ posts]

I like America, or what the country was founded off. I think there is radical change coming in the future, so I keep faith. It's going to happen one way or another.

You do realize how/why this country was founded in the manner in which it was right? lol

 

[05fronty 5,000+ posts]

fuckin duggars are gonna be broke

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

They need to put regulations on how many kids people are allowed to have.. YES i just said that!! But then people would say the government is over ruling and blah blah blah. People on welfare having multiple children.. like really!?

There is a big difference between regulating how many children a citizen can have, and ending the pay-out plan for people on welfare who continue to pop out babies they cant afford.

 

[Wingman0121 10+ year member]

No one is complaining that we spent 685 billion dollars in defense/military in 2010 and even more in 2011. The projected Department of Defense spending for 2012 is 707.5 billion dollars alone and over 1 trillion dollars for all defense-related spending. The Oshkosh M-ATV that is replacing the Humvee costs over $470,000 a unit, it still has rubber tires and can still get disabled by a roadside bomb set up by some poor uneducated moron. Depending on the situation, $470,000 is often more than the value of a human life.

Why are we spending that much on the military??? Where's our ion cannons and cyborg assassins? Nope, we can't give NASA 2 billion dollars so they can do research for the good of mankind, but we need 700 billion dollars so we can be Captain America. I like guns and missiles too but we're dumping money into the military like a crack addict.

 

[Slappin_azz!]

I've stopped caring. I say we let america run straight into the ground, since there is no other choice. Only thing to do now is watch and laugh at the failure of our goverment.

 

[wickedwitt 10+ year member]

No one is complaining that we spent 685 billion dollars in defense/military in 2010 and even more in 2011. The projected Department of Defense spending for 2012 is 707.5 billion dollars alone and over 1 trillion dollars for all defense-related spending. The Oshkosh M-ATV that is replacing the Humvee costs over $470,000 a unit, it still has rubber tires and can still get disabled by a roadside bomb set up by some poor uneducated moron. Depending on the situation, $470,000 is often more than the value of a human life.

Why are we spending that much on the military??? Where's our ion cannons and cyborg assassins? Nope, we can't give NASA 2 billion dollars so they can do research for the good of mankind, but we need 700 billion dollars so we can be Captain America. I like guns and missiles too but we're dumping money into the military like a crack addict.

You're right, no one is complaining that we spent big money protecting ourselves. People are complaining that we've spent 1 trillion dollars bailing stupid people and stupid businesses out of a model that they knew would fail for 15 years and chose to ignore it over short term gains...

And it wasn't the populous that nixed the space program; you can think you're wonderful (read: terrible) president for that.

 

[jco1385 5,000+ posts]

lolimmad.

x2

I was talkin to my moms about this last night when i was watching the news. I had to bust out the Cap'n to keep myself in check. It's a really fucked situation. Every 'empire' has it's fall....

 

[AlterEgo99 5,000+ posts]

You're right, no one is complaining that we spent big money protecting ourselves. People are complaining that we've spent 1 trillion dollars bailing stupid people and stupid businesses out of a model that they knew would fail for 15 years and chose to ignore it over short term gains...
And it wasn't the populous that nixed the space program; you can thank your wonderful (read: terrible) president for that.

Fixed and ^this^

Although, I must admit, the death of the shuttle began with Bush. Obama just put the nail in the coffin when he nixed the follow up program.

 

[denim 5,000+ posts]

No one is complaining that we spent 685 billion dollars in defense/military in 2010 and even more in 2011. The projected Department of Defense spending for 2012 is 707.5 billion dollars alone and over 1 trillion dollars for all defense-related spending. The Oshkosh M-ATV that is replacing the Humvee costs over $470,000 a unit, it still has rubber tires and can still get disabled by a roadside bomb set up by some poor uneducated moron. Depending on the situation, $470,000 is often more than the value of a human life.

Why are we spending that much on the military??? Where's our ion cannons and cyborg assassins? Nope, we can't give NASA 2 billion dollars so they can do research for the good of mankind, but we need 700 billion dollars so we can be Captain America. I like guns and missiles too but we're dumping money into the military like a crack addict.

The Navy already has Railguns, just ask my buddy Optimus Prime:

 

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[jco1385 5,000+ posts]

Fixed and ^this^
Although, I must admit, the death of the shuttle began with Bush. Obama just put the nail in the coffin when he nixed the follow up program.

Bush was the one to end the program. Obama nix'd his proposal to go back to the moon, in favor of putting people on an asteroid, and possibly Mars.

 

[Proximity 10+ year member]

One of those parties like totally gives a crap about us, no really!

Agreed.

Republican are showing, once again, they care nothing about the average person in this country. Republicans want to place ALL the debt burden on the middle class and the poor, whereas Democrats want to distribute it evenly, or at least that's where they're willing to compromise to. Republicans won't compromise at ALL.

Honestly holic, can you really say that Democrats are acting just as bad as Republicans here? Can you really not admit that this isn't "typical washington", that it's STRICTLY Republicans refusing to make rich people pay one more cent in taxes even though their tax cuts are to blame for this "crisis"? If you can't (or, in terms of the first question, can), you really possess no objectivity at all.

 

[Proximity 10+ year member]

People are complaining that we've spent 1 trillion dollars bailing stupid people and stupid businesses out of a model that they knew would fail for 15 years and chose to ignore it over short term gains...

TARP is actually going to cost significantly less than a trillion dollars, Like a few billion, in the end.

If you want to know why our debt is so enormous, look at tax cuts for the rich (starting with Reagan) and the two wars.

 

[Proximity 10+ year member]

your absolutely right the amount of people who work a non-government type job is so small we can afford to get ahead because of paying for everyone that does work for the gov't in some sort of way or collect a gov't check for nothing..its crazy. we have no chance with the way things are.

LOL that is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif The US workforce is 155 million people, the public sector makes up about 21 million.