2M federally-funded homes AND $25 k to first gen homeowners!.

@wildgrass said

Really,,,,,how do you want to effect some change of life, change of he USA, change of Loudon county, to cause no more rich people to live there?

They're only rich because folks like you keep asking politicians to ratchet up defense spending. Cut the Pentagon budget in half, that's the solution.

@Wajoma said
Provide a quote of me defending goobermint spending, it's only the 6th time I've asked which makes 5 times you've slithered like a slug,

Go ahead make it 6, but be warned, you do it too much and that is what you'll be.

@wildgrass said
I responded a long time ago.

@AverageJoe1 said
If the military (defense, etc) spending is cut in half, our vulnerability is increased by half. So is the vulnerability of places like Romania who may ask for our help vs Putin one day. You ought to run this by many defenseless countries in the world.
Plus, cutting spending gives Biden more money, to pay off credit cards. There is no diff in credit cards and tuiti ...[text shortened]... d jump all over it.
Can you picture Trump wallowing and begging for votes by giving out money?

If the military (defense, etc) spending is cut in half, our vulnerability is increased by half

There's so much grift and greed at the Pentagon that they don't even know where half their stuff went. Trillions in assets. Routinely buys more stuff it knows it doesn't need because it can't find the thing it already has.

They pay their contractors so much that they are now the richest people in the whole country.

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/pentagon-audit-2666415734/

@wildgrass said
There's so much grift and greed at the Pentagon that they don't even know where half their stuff went. Trillions in assets. Routinely buys more stuff it knows it doesn't need because it can't find the thing it already has.

They pay their contractors so much that they are now the richest people in the whole country.

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/pentagon-audit-2666415734/

@wildgrass said

If the military (defense, etc) spending is cut in half, our vulnerability is increased by half

Nope. The pentagons own audit found over $100 billion per year is completely unnecessary. Congress keeps giving them more money.

And then we go out and spend $335 million on a dock. Vulnerability had nothing to do with that.

@AverageJoe1 said
Then I will be the first to relent if you show us where (the pentagon, or the auditors..?) have determined that $100B of their budget is 'completely unnecessary'

The post that was quoted here has been removed

@wildgrass said
I'm not the one pretending to be a libertarian.

Embarrassing for you. You justify spending 1000x what something costs because it is what it is.

Buy a floating dock in Gaza or 13,400 starter home down payments for Americans struggling to make ends meet in an inflationary economy?

A libertarian would say neither. That's not you.

@AverageJoe1 said
Hitler, welcome back. Dictating suits you. Freedom is overrated. Regulations are the key to success. I don't know success for what or for whom, but certainly not the self-reliant independent citizen.
President Sonhouse. And you would have just started!!! I note that WGrass does not like people being rich and successful either.
I feel like I am alwasy search ...[text shortened]... ult that.
Seems you are mad at contractors, when your ire should be directed at the legislators.

@Wajoma said
Come on wildgrass, where did I 'justify' the spending?

Where?

Where did I say one, the other, or both?

Where?

@wildgrass said
You could have saved yourself a lott of time by checking my prior response to this question on page 4.

However, you did write "anything the military buys costs more" and "it isn't the most expensive dock ever built" which could be interpreted by some as a justification of outrageous government spending.

@Wajoma said
So:

I didn't justify the spending.

I didn't say the money should have been spent on one, the other or both.

You can't quote me saying anything like it, you make stuff up but don't have the balls to admit you made a mistake.

There are a lot of things I can simply state as fact and not be advocate for, eg

Politicians are generally lying, conniving, power trippin ...[text shortened]... y, you're a slimey slithering slug.

BTW you could save yourself some time by referring to page 3.

@wildgrass said
Dude. I responded to your question why do you keep asking? How do I turn off notifications when wajoma replies over and over to issues addressed pages earlier?

Yes if youre responding to someone complaining about lying politicians with "well, actually everyone knows they're liars" and then "I'll bet he's not the biggest liar ever" then you're absolutely justifying the politicians actions.