>>>>Read it completely.
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>>>>"Norcross and Reps. Frank LoBiondo (R-2nd Dist.), Tom MacArthur (R-3rd Dist.) and Chris Smith (R-4th Dist.) urged Defense Secretary James Mattis in a letter earlier this month to include funding for the hangars in the forthcoming budget, which increases defense spending by $54 billion while cutting funding for Medicaid, children's health insurance and food stamps"
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>>>>PS - Norcross is a Democrat
>>>>
>>>>Here's the deal.
>>>>More than 42,000 people are employed at the Joint Base McGuire/Dix.
>>>>
>>>>That's more than any single employer in New Jersey.
>>>>That's just slightly less than half of the entire population of Hamilton, NJ.
>>>>Their congressional reps have one, and only one, mission... keep that base open and raise its funding.
>>>>Keep it open, period.
>>>>I've been out there. These are good, family, people.
>>>>
>>>>The tragedy is that there are stories like this in North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, California, New York, New Mexico, Maine and many other states.
>>>>I don't want to see these people hurt, but things have to change and they will, inevitably.
>>>>
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>>>I am with you believing that 30-50% of military budget probably could be saved without risking safety of the US, also that (Trump is correct sometimes) Europe, Germany in particular should spend more.
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>>>But the big spending blocks are the money-for-nothing stuff: social security, food stamps, out of work, medicare/aid and so on.
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>>Management rule #1
>>Saying that there is another problem does not solve the problem at hand.
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>At least I tried for a solution for the other problem - in the text you cut ;-)
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>>>Cut back spending on all programs for 20% by law, reserve half of the spending cuts to be spent by government again as outcome of political process. Still 10% saved and enough "distribution" work for politicians as newspeople to get exited about...
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>>Read the article. They passed that law (called sequester) and they want an exception for military spending.
>>Insane.
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>And my idea of automatic dwindling of gov coupled with reallocating half of that cutback with proper democratic ways the democratic process at least has a chance to correct itself (or show itself as corrupt as you mention).
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>>>And yes, walk softly and carry a big stick was preferrable to drone-kill quite a few non-combatants and tweet loudly
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>>Better yet - don't attack anyone who doesn't attack your homeland.
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>Hm. Couple of questions:
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>Shooting down Airplanes of US carriers flying/operating outside the states ?

That depends on why and where.
Our pilots engaged a few Russian pilots flying MIG 15's in North Korea.
No one seriously suggested that we should invade Russia.

Our troops fought Chinese troops on the ground in Korea.
McArthur wanted to chase them into China but fortunately Truman overruled him and Ike followed suit.





>> you will isolate US in the long run

Exactly what I had In mind.

Geographically, logistically, militarily and in every other way the US can do fine on its own if need be.
Any country in its right mind wants to trade with the US, and that's OK if the terms are right, but fighting for other people to be sure that they like us is insanity.