Thread: do you "less government" rhetoric lovers think there should be no financial

the defense budget should be cut in half

Do you honestly not get it ?

I'd gladly take a small cut in profit if it means I gain market share. And if the gain is large enough, I can lower other expenses. Advertising for one.

While I don't mind a large military overall, employing people for the sake of employing people, and finding jobs for them pushing stupid papers and making the system more inefficient is rather dumb.

If the country is going to employ people for the sake of employing people, put them to work improving the country's infrastructure, or building some interesting national monument shit. At least that accomplishes something.

I'm sure there were plenty of solid companies that fell. Even the solid ones had to make layoffs. Toyota did. Leveraging is how small business operates.

The leveraging that I talked about by the big banks was on such a tremendous scale that small over leveraged businesses are a drop in the ocean.

starting with what?

well, it will be cut in half in a few years as we withdraw from iraq. many troops are being transferred to afghanistan but we have the infrastructure there so the cost/head is lower

Gigantic military used to defend against a phantom threat posed by China.

that just leaves more money for the black box budget

drop bombs not bush