Actually I believe Cost Rica disbanded its military and funneled the money into infrastructure, education and cultural restoration that made them a lot better off and a tourist mecca of sorts. I think it was in the 70s or 80s and I believe their president won the Nobel Prize for doing it..I'm just too lazy to google a link
TBH I'm not sure what you meant. I just know that across the board cuts just to cut isn't the way to do it.
not only do the kids get food stamps but she receives child support for each child monthly, essentially making her income go from $160 more a month in salary than me to about $800 extra in child support.
Of course not, because some government expense is justified and necessary. But there are many parts of the current federal budget which are gross excess, and that's where cuts should come from. The main thing is that the budget needs to be cut to a level that is not just at the projected revenue level, but at least 10% below. Cutting foreign aid and international military spending would be one of many places to begin. Giant corporate subsidies would be another. Government sponsored healthcare (not including Medicare) would be a third.
The push is to expand this not cut it. Personally I believe in Medicare part E. Medicare for all. Healthcare should be a right. How can you be pro life (not you necessarily) and not want to take care of it after it's alive?
Child support is not income bro. Do you have any kids? I do. Only 1. And I'm a single Father who has his child 5 days per week. It's the hardest, best thing I've ever done. I fucking WISH my ex wife would be ABLE to pay me for support. This boy is eating me out of house and home!!
Pull our troops out of S. Korea and Germany now...we're bleeding money and those areas are capable of shoring up their own defenses
I disagree. To me, a right is something you naturally have simply by virtue of being human, something that government doesn't grant, but would only be capable of inhibiting. Life, freedom, expression, willing silence, self-protection--these are not imbued by a government. Rights, by their very nature, do not have to be provided--they simply are. Nothing that has to be provided to a person should be considered a right, because inherent in that would be an obligation being placed on another to provide that thing. This is why even basic needs like food, clothing, and shelter are not considered rights, because if a person does not choose to procure those things for themself, then an obligation to provide those things is created for another. Health care falls under that same category.
IMHO You're wrong on this. In this country today, if a person is in poverty, these things can be provided by the state.
Until you have something like a SARS outbreak that is airborne and you have to breath the same air that the homeless guy is breathing who doesn' t even have an ID...you'll wish that guy was required to recieve medical attention before he breathes on your children..whether he wants it or not
