It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
originally posted by: Plugit
originally posted by: YourFaceAgain
a reply to: Plugit
The overwhelming majority of our debt is from domestic spending. The wars were expensive but they make up a small fraction of the debt.
You appear to have consumed a lot of progressive "# the military" propaganda. They hate the military because we get a lot of the benefits they think they should be entitled to but haven't earned.
Sure, I was talking about when it went wrong/started the crazy spending.
It is estimated that, since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the global war on terror will cost the United States government just over 5.4 trillion U.S. dollars. This figure includes estimates of all budgetary spending related to the war on terror between FY 2001 and FY 2020.
This figure of 5.4 trillion does not include the ongoing medical and disability expenditure for veterans beyond FY 2020, which is estimated to cost an additional one trillion U.S. dollars by FY 2059.
So then the fast increase of debt started and with more debt more money spend to finance the debt.
Under Bush II the debt was only about 6 trillion, Obama 10 trillion and now 35 trillion!
Nah I don't dislike the military perse but it's not used for defense but misused for world control and being Israel's buddy.
The US never get attacked or is in danger but war is needed!! It's just the biggest industry with many lobbyists (many warmongers in government/congress!!).
originally posted by: CriticalStinker
a reply to: matafuchs
Can we just agree that NO money should have been transferred to a country with direct connections to killing US soldiers?
I agree, but I doubt we’d see Saudi Arabia dropped from the US.
If we were really splitting hairs, that could put Israel in a bad position for the USS Liberty. Though, that was most likely an accident.
We owe to the Jews in the Christian revelation a system of ethics which, even if it were entirely separated from the supernatural, would be incomparably the most precious possession of mankind... And it may well be that this same astounding race may at the present time be in the actual process of producing another system of morals and philosophy, as malevolent as Christianity was benevolent, which, if not arrested, would shatter irretrievably all that Christianity has rendered possible. It would almost seem as if the gospel of Christ and the gospel of Antichrist were destined to originate among the same people; and that this mystic and mysterious race had been chosen for the supreme manifestations, both of the divine and the diabolical.
originally posted by: Plugit
a reply to: YourFaceAgain
Looking at the debt clock the main 4 spending figures are:
originally posted by: YourFaceAgain
originally posted by: Plugit
a reply to: YourFaceAgain
Looking at the debt clock the main 4 spending figures are:
So domestic social programs are the biggest drivers of the debt, exactly as I said on the previous page? Not to mention the overwhelming majority of the defense portion of the debt was spending that didn't go towards GWOT.
Thanks for proving me correct.
I just stopped reading there man. It's pretty obvious you have no interest in facts. You just want to push anti-military propaganda. I gave you the benefit of the doubt and thought maybe you just didn't know.
You don't have the intellectual capacity to actually discuss these matters, you're just here to push that disinformation. You'll fit right in here.
Bye, bigot.
But, the fact remains: the economic downturn, President Bush’s tax cuts and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq explain most of the deficit over the next ten years — according to this update of our analysis, which is based on the Congressional Budget Office’s most recent ten-year budget projections (from August) and congressional action since we released the previous version of this analysis in May 2011. (For a fuller discussion, see the technical note that begins on p. 6.)
The deficit for fiscal year 2009 — which began more than three months before President Obama’s inauguration — was $1.4 trillion and, at 10 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the largest deficit relative to the economy since the end of World War II.