Guest Al Hounos Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/24...agon/index.html Any sign of reigning in this country's out-of-control military spending, expecially coming from a hawkish republican, is a huge step, imo. A trillion-dollar fighter jet program in an age of terrorism and guerilla warfare seems criminally wasteful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCONES TO DIE FOR Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 So he does this after supporting the war in Iraq. What a hypocrite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JW Modestburns Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 McCain is a McShame Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Wall Bird Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090302/frank Here's a good article by Barney Frank reinforcing the opinion that we need to cut the military budget big time. It's great to hear someone finally saying what a lot of people have known for some time. However, I'm a bit suspect of Mr. Frank since he was one of the reps. who pushed hard for that infernal $750,000,000,000 Wall Street Bailout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awepittance Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 2009 Republicans = Born Again Pretend Fiscal Conservatives Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Al Hounos Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 yeah, but surely they can't turn away from the military-industrial complex so easily. cut everything else, but leave the real pork-fest alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest catsonearth Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 yea, we need to earmark that money for more important things like building prison camps in montana and shit like that. that's the kind of tip we're on now. why spend several billion on one plane when you could spend a few million on building a prison facility and then a few more million juggling the system so it becomes a necessity to start putting people in them. that's twice the oppression, for half the cost. is very good deal, yes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Al Hounos Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090302/frank Here's a good article by Barney Frank reinforcing the opinion that we need to cut the military budget big time. It's great to hear someone finally saying what a lot of people have known for some time. However, I'm a bit suspect of Mr. Frank since he was one of the reps. who pushed hard for that infernal $750,000,000,000 Wall Street Bailout. I'm not an economist or a banker so I can't really say if the bailout was unnecessary. I just have to trust people like Paul Krugman. Sounds to me like we could have punished wall street and the banks and left them out to die, but we would likely put ourselves and the whole world into a long and painful depression. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest KY Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 Any sign of reigning in this country's out-of-control military spending, expecially coming from a hawkish republican, is a huge step, imo. you don't think his losing the presidential race affected his critical remarks of the new prez? come on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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