Boom. Exactly.

You do realize that the president is the CINC right? You’re essentially saying that Obama fucked the military in the ass for eight years, now look at how terribly ran the military is. Shame! Here’s the kicker though, despite best efforts, our military is still the strongest, most agile, most competent force in the…

No you’re not. Not in the least.

Yes. A military that has been neglected for the last eight years. The ironic thing in this whole conversation, is everything you criticize the military for can be easily solved with more funding. 😉 Just like healthcare; social security; infrastructure; environmental projects; etc etc.

No. You’re basing your whole thesis on one operation. Everything else you’ve espoused is easily refutable nonsense.

No. The budget for social security and healthcare is set by congress. It’s over 50% of the entire federal budget. The rest is divided between everything else. If they spent less on the military it would go towards other discretionary budgets. Not healthcare or social security. You have no idea how any of this works.

No my argument is correct. By your own admission, the us military sells their equipment there by recouping some of the expenditures in their budget. The US is absolutely the best trained and the most readily armed force in the world. Prove me wrong on this. Size has no correlation to management or leadership, you are…

Exactly! Thank you for proving my point that spending on the military does not impact spending on healthcare and social security!!! Great job!

Single payer is not cheaper or more efficient. Look at tax rates in those countries. Also, tuitions didn’t start to skyrocket until financial aid dramatically increased. It’s not the other way around. There is a direct correlation between the increase in tuition assistance and the cost of tuition. There is no…

Are you kidding me right now? Just google defense programs cancelled due to budgets. Or even the F-22 or the entire military after WW2

In every instance private business operates more efficiently that government run programs. The reason you have no statistics is because they do not exist. Most people who have insurance through their employer have a max amount they can be charged each year, so no, they are not ruined financially for the rest of their…

Nope. Not to mention they’re using equipment that we gave them. You know, the equipment that we spent money on to develop.

I’m not talking about pharmaceuticals.

Name one country that isn’t a totalitarian state that maintains a state of alertness equal to the United States. Allow me to give you a hint. The carrier force the U.S. Just sent towards North Korea has more strike power than the totality of the RAF. And again, the military is not the only department that wastes…

You’re creating a gigantic straw man right now. Does the military waste money? Absolutely. Does their waste of money reduce the amount spent on healthcare? Nope. Not a bit. And don’t even get me started on the monetary waste spent within the healthcare field if that’s really a road you would like to go down.

Oh for fucks sake. We spend almost twice the amount on healthcare each year than we do on the military. The reason we don’t have more money for healthcare is because we’re all a bunch of fat lazy assholes who don’t take care of ourselves.

*Sigh.* No. YOU’RE graph is misleading. His graph is a totality of the federal budget. You’re graph leaves out over half of the federal budget. Not to mention his response was to the OP who tried to smugly act as if these weapons are responsible for people not receiving healthcare when that is decidedly not the case.…

Wear latex/nitrile gloves. I love the shit out of spicy food, and I will tell you, wearing gloves is the best way to do this. One little drop getting under your fingernail lying in wait will ruin your day when you inevitable rub your eyeball later in the day. Washing your hands doesn’t guarantee you removed all the…

That’s fair.

That would depend greatly on if they are replacing it or not. Not to mention costs tend to go down the more something is produced because the costs can be spread out over more items. There are a myriad of factors that go into cost, I know, I was simply making an observation on how people are acting as if we just spent…