deficits to continue breaking records

[Riot]

Originally Posted by joeydb

To reduce the burdens on the middle class and reduce the deficit, cut spending.

Great: what spending, specifically,would you like to cut in the middle of a recession recovery?

[joeydb]

Originally Posted by Riot

Great: what spending, specifically,would you like to cut in the middle of a recession recovery?

Start with all foreign aid. Eliminate all of it.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by joeydb

Start with all foreign aid. Eliminate all of it.

a drop in the bucket i'm afraid.

http://www.federalbudget.com/


seems the biggest burdens are our interest payments on debt, defense, and of course, social spending (medicaid, social security).

so, if you wish to balance the budget, guess what needs to be cut? defense and social programs. believe it or not, military spending could definitely be cut-by quite a bit.

hey, here's a thought. get us the eff out of afganistan and iraq. they just voted on yet another war bill, to the tune of 80 billion if memory serves. yeah, we can afford that.

and i have no idea what all is involved with the site above, but the graph is very telling at a glance, isn't it?

[Danzig]

and i just found this:

•US military spending accounts for 46.5 percent, or almost half, of the world’s total military spending
•US military spending is 7 times more than China, 13 times more than Russia, and 73 times more than Iran.
•US military spending is some 44 times the spending on the six “rogue” states (Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria) whose spending amounts to around $16 billion.
•US spending is more than the next top 14 countries at least.
•The United States and its strongest allies (the NATO countries, Japan, South Korea and Australia) spend something in the region of $1.1 trillion on their militaries combined, representing 72 percent of the world’s total.
•The six potential “enemies,” Russia, and China together account for about $169 billion or 24% of the US military budget.


got them from:

http://www.globalissues.org/article/...RestoftheWorld

[clyde]

Oh boy...could ink blots be next?

[Nascar1966]

Maybe if the USA would quit aiding all these counties the deficit would be less than what it is going to be. Are all the countries we are giving aid to helping the USA out? Probably not, yet the people in DC would rather take care of another country then thier own country. Pretty bad if you ask me. Lets give Pakistan more aid so they can keep on hiding Bin Laden from us and help out the Taliban. The same for Afganistan, lets give them aid so they can support the Taliban.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Nascar1966

Maybe if the USA would quit aiding all these counties the deficit would be less than what it is going to be. Are all the countries we are giving aid to helping the USA out? Probably not, yet the people in DC would rather take care of another country then thier own country. Pretty bad if you ask me. Lets give Pakistan more aid so they can keep on hiding Bin Laden from us and help out the Taliban. The same for Afganistan, lets give them aid so they can support the Taliban.

did you even pay attention to what i posted above? did you read any of it? it's all well and good to say cut foreign aid, but again, it's a negligible amount when you compare it to our overall budget. it would be luck you attempting to help your personal budget by not buying a bottle of water once a month. as for what you wrote above, that has a lot more to do with military spending than foreign aid. but i'd imagine the thought of cutting military spending would throw you into hysterics, without you actually even looking at what our military spending entails.