Dukasaur wrote:patches70 wrote:Government doesn't have enough money? Cut something then mother fuckers!
Something like half of your governments operating expenses are for maintaining a military capable of destroying all life on earth (and regularly destroying all life in various portions of it.)
I don't disagree with slimming down the government, but I think you could save a lot more by not bombing third-world countries than by cutting the school lunch program. And with a lot less pain.
Absolutely. You, Duk, know I have since the beginning of posting here, have been very critical of US foreign policy. It didn't matter who was in office, be it Dem or Rep. Liberal, conservative, progressive or whatever. DRopping bombs on people to kill the terrorists only makes more terrorists. It's stupid. Not only that I'm against any act of war upon another nation by the US when the Congress hasn't declared war upon said nation. I don't care if the stated goal is "for the children".
Now I have to listen to moral busy bodies who complain I'm greedy and throwing away opportunity for future generations because I'm glad to get a tax break. It's not just the money I keep in my pocket, after all I earned that money, it's also that I don't agree with how that money that is taken is spent. My disagreements are based upon ethical and moral considerations that aren't swayed by "for the children" of "the greater good" arguments.
I understand that "solutions" aren't solutions, they are all just trade offs. The greater good argument is the most absurd. The greater good really means good for most people while some other people get screwed over. It's all fine and dandy when you are on the side that benefits, just wait till you're in the group getting screwed.
The US involved herself in Libya for "humanitarian" reasons. That was complete bullshit, I knew it from the get go. What about the humanitarian crisis in Libya now, that has occurred as a direct result from our previous humanitarian intervention. A few more US humanitarian missions and the Earth will be good and fucked proper!
But no, I'm just a greedy redneck looking out for only myself. Well guess what suckers, who else is gonna look out for me and my interests? Notyou2? Is he gonna take care of my family? The US government? Should I trust them with my family's future? How about Obama, should I have trusted him? Should I trust Trump? Or Congress? How about Canada, will Canada look out for my interests?
That's a resounding hell no to each and every one of them. Not a single fucker on this website is going to provide for me and my family and I wouldn't ask any of them to do so anyway! Because they have their own family's, their own interests that they should be looking out for.
The only one we got is ourselves. Who's gonna look out for you? To answer that, just look in a mirror. That's who.
Europe should look out for Europe. The US should leave Nato, close every single US base in Europe and let the Europeans defend themselves. They are quite capable of doing so. I promise, if the need arises when the US has to come back and save Europe again, we'll be there. But as it stands now we (the US) has long since moved into the realm of enabler into an increasingly toxic relationship that if your daughter/son/loved one found themself in a similar situation with their boy/girlfriend/husband/wife you'd be pressing her hard to for them to extricate from said toxic relationship. With good cause!
The Founding Father's intended US citizens to be farmers during the day and scholars at night. Not to be the moral center of the world, not to bring the American way to the world by the point of a bayonet, but to merely live righteously and the world would follow of her own accord without coercion from the US. We have long since lost moral highground and it brings sorrow to me to think my beloved nation has such blood on her hands. We are not wise enough to be the policeman of the world. No one is.
The only real support I have for Trump is that it would bring me great joy to watch the apoplectic ravings of the SJW's, progressives, millennials etc etc to see Trump elected into office. Those poor saps did not disappoint. It makes me smile watching these same hypocrites jump from one foot to the other pulling their hair out wondering why they can't get Trump out of office.
According to some of the craziest on this site, Trump was supposed to be impeached and gone six months ago!
Oh how the deluded delude themselves. Trump is no worse and no better than any average President so far as I've seen. He's a bit less diplomatic, but that doesn't bother me much considering the disdain I have for the PC and SJW crowd who at best have regular circle jerks of virtue signalling while doing nothing of any import anyway. I've never claimed to be struggling for something of import except to do right by myself and my family. That's all I really have control over anyway. I will always argue for following the Constitution, no matter who is in office and for the life of me I haven't seen Trump tear up the Constitution as badly as Obama did. Not yet at least.
But it's still early in his Presidency, which makes little difference to me because I'm still going to succeed in my own goals despite what the Federal Government does or doesn't do.
The icing on the cake, three years from now when Trump get reelected, I will laugh with glee as the SJW's and PC police, commies, socialists and other useful idiots lose their collective minds yet again. That will be absolutely hilarious and for that alone would be worth enduring yet another four years of Trump.
