A list of puns related to "Military budget of the United States"
From What a Bernie Sanders Presidency Would Look Like
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>Neoliberalism has divided us across borders and atomized our personal lives, leading us to blame ourselves for problems caused by a rigged system. This moment demands a new politics that unites us to confront our shared enemies and transform our society. Sanders consistently argues, “Beating Trump is not good enough.” This is an understatement. The world quite literally depends upon a political revolution. And only Sanders has a plan for that.
Present day USA, the general public does not know about the war.
In 2017, the military budget was $639 billion. So I guess I'm saying let's spend $320 billion less on our military.
Let me address what are likely the two biggest concerns with doing this:
The United States is a member of NATO. We have DOZENS of military allies who could come to our aid if we really needed help.
We don't appear to be on the brink of war with any major military power. The closest is North Korea, and if we slashed our budget by 90%, we would probably STILL kick their asses. Not to mention our arsenal of thousands of nuclear weapons could turn North Korea into glass.
We are in a smarter era now. It's not about MORE planes, MORE bombs, MORE guns, or MORE people. It's about all these things but smarter. Think our engineers are smart? Good, because they are. Let them live up to their potential and figure out how to accomplish military objectives without just throwing everything we've got at our targets.
This is an easy one. We just freed up $320 billion from our budget. So invest that in the country and create jobs for the military personnel who would now need to find work. Whatever program you can think of, you have $320 billion to make it happen. I guarantee we could transition all displaced military personnel to civilian life AND have plenty to spare with that kind of cash.
CMV.
The argument that everyone always gives for not being able to drink at 21 is that the brain isn't fully developed yet, etc. But we allow these same people, who can't even legally purchase a beer, to go and die for us? I understand that not every 18 year old that joins the military is gonna die obviously. But this isn't just some high risk job. The point of the military is defence and fighting. Yes I get that there are other positions that never see combat. But that doesn't change the fact that they CAN see combat. now, I'm not arguing that the drinking age should be lowered, or that the military age should be increased. Obviously one of those would have to happen if we made them the same age, but I'm not really for one of the other, as I am no expert. But I cannot fathom how people think it's okay to allow people to join the military, but they can't even have a beer. And soon they won't even be able to have a cigarette.
Im actually not sure what would change my view on this subject. I'm not really sure what could be said to me that wood convince me that it's okay to send somebody to potentially kill other people, but somehow drinking a beer is more detrimental to their health (or whatever other reason anybody can come up with for this law).
however, I am open to discussion, and I am certainly open to have in my view changed.
CMV
Edit: I keep seeing the same arguments over and over, just worded differently. Nobody has changed my view, and I have to go to work.
I just want to clarify that the entire point of my argument is that once the United States government views an individual as an adult, they should be able to make all of these decisions by themselves. If they consider 18 to be an adult, they should be able to make these decisions. the entire point of being considered an adult, is that the government recognizes that you are able to make your own decisions and take care of yourself and provide for yourself. But they don't trust you to have a drink or smoke. but of course they don't mind if you join the military, because that benefits them. and for everyone saying that drinking harms of the people, so does joining the military. Family sometimes don't get to see their children and loved ones for four or more years at a time. Not only that, but if that person dies in the military, the entire family is devastated. It may not be the same effects as drinking and driving and killing somebody on the road, but to say that the military and drinking aren't
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