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Should We Cut Defense Spending? Actually, that’s the Wrong Question.
“It’s not just about cutting. It’s about doing the work to make smarter choices.”
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Trump Signs Ridiculous Spending Bill While Repeating Lie That Our Military Is Depleted
After creating chaos earlier this morning by threatening to veto the proposed Senate and Congressional omnibus spending bill, adding an additional 1.3 trillion dollars to the previous 1.7 trillion added by the Republican tax reform law passed just over a month ago, Mr. Trump finally decided to sign the legislation, announcing his decision to a pool…
Opinion: Trump’s Moronic Lies – Germany Doesn’t Owe America Vast Sums of Money
“[Trump] keeps saying that ‘we’ need to be paid by the Europeans for the fact that we have troops in Europe or provide defense there. But that’s not how it works.”
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Democrat Adam Schiff Tells Trump To Stop Treating NATO Like a Protection Racket
“Glad you think it was great, @POTUS. Would have been greater if you didn’t treat NATO like protection racket, or allies like deadbeats”
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Trump Says His Budget Makes Safety ‘No. 1 Priority’ But it Will Kill Americans
Trump’s budget directs dollars away from the people who need it most, vulnerable children and the elderly, to fill the swamp he promised to drain
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Republicans Use Deficit Lie To Try To Cut Health Care While Increasing Military Spending
Republicans are looking for ways to increase the already bloated defense budget they claim is woefully underfunded. And, as is their wont, they are targeting domestic programs due to their regard for the “out-of-control” and “unsustainable deficit.”
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Even Conservatives are Finding Nearly Two Trillion in Potential Savings in the Defense Budget
Long a target for cuts by liberals, two fiscally conservatives groups have now also joined the call for reduced defense spending.
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The Koch Brothers Take Credit for Imposing Economic Hardship on Millions of Americans
Koch brothers’ front group, Americans for Prosperity (AFP), sent congratulations to Republicans and their supporters around the country for helping push the sequester cuts.
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The GOP’s Dystopian Dream of America’s Future
Why should the federal deficit scare us compared to an uninhabitable planet? Aren’t mountains without tops more frightening than an IUD?
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When It Comes to War Mitt Romney is George W. Bush With Magic Underwear
If Willard Romney controls the world’s most powerful military will repeat the Iraq and Afghanistan disasters because he is, after all, just George W. Bush with magic underwear.
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War Criminals for Romney: Bush Hops Aboard Mitt’s 2012 Titanic
What Americans should remember is that a convicted war criminal and arguably the worst president in history just endorsed his ‘updated’ clone to be the next worst president in history.
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Paul Ryan Shows His Heartless Contempt for Women and Low-Income Americans
Paul Ryan’s description of a fictional woman who lives a decent life as “creepy” because of a caring government defines Republicans as the cruel, cold-hearted beasts they really are.
GOP Scam Artists Turn A Deaf Ear To Catholic Bishops When It Comes To Aid For The Poor
Republicans scammed the Catholic Bishops on birth control, and now they are ignoring the same Bishops’ pleas that programs that aid the poor not be cut.
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Mitt Romney Embraces Failure By Doubling Down On Bush’s Cuts For Millionaires
Mitt Romney’s tax proposal would double the size of the Bush cuts with no plan to fund the cuts other than capping spending on programs 99% of Americans depend on.
Welfare or Warfare: Keeping Defense Contractors Rich While America Crumbles
Republicans want to take the country back to the 1950s, and they want to cut taxes for the wealthy claiming it is good for the economy even though the Bush-era tax cuts have not created jobs or stimulated the economy. Republicans also oppose cutting defense spending that drains the economy and takes valuable resources that could rebuild our crumbling infrastructure and create jobs.
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John McCain’s Eternal War Against Gays At Home and American Soldiers Abroad
John McCain is a war hero, and advocates permanent wars regardless the cost in lives and drain on the economy. He also knows that allowing gays to serve in the military is wrong, regardless that a majority of Americans, the Pentagon, and service members support repealing DADT. McCain also doesn’t want an end to the war in Afghanistan because he has gross memory loss regarding the Iraq war.
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Obama Administration Takes Aim at Defense Spending Overruns
“A spigot of defense spending opened up after 9/11, yet for years, there has been dismal oversight of contractors handling hundreds of billions of dollars in contracts for weapons and other goods and services.”