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You speak of our military arsenal as if it is static and doesn't change. When new high-tech bombers and warships are built, others are decommissioned, and sent to the scrapyard. There really isn't much actual "growth" in the size of our fleets, it's still about the same as it's been the past 50 years.
The fundamental argument here is not the money, we've proven that we can fund almost anything, we just run a deficit doing it, and if we implement a universal nationalized health care program, it will certainly be deficit spending, unless you know of some way to magically generate $10 trillion to bring us back into the black! No, the fundamental argument is what it will do to our state-of-the-art medical system. When you start introducing federal mandates to hospitals and doctors, you will drive many of them completely out of business, and when you start fantasizing like DQ, about nationwide clinics open 24/7, you will have to find a way to staff them and pay for the doctors to work there. The people receiving the benefits of the service are not going to be paying for it, who is? The American taxpayer? Well, that might be okay if there were ANY proof that such a thing could work, but we see evidence in everything the government is involved in, it doesn't work!
We have got to get liberal Americans off this mindset that government is the answer to every problem! We need to find free market solutions and answers, and allow free enterprise to work, rather than consistently burdening the taxpayer with more bureaucratic government waste and inefficiency. What the private sector can do with $80 billion is FAR more than our government can do!
And the point of my talking about trimming the military budget is that the numbers are not needed. The military system has created the need for more and more.
For the 2008 budget, our illustrious military wants to spend $6.1 billion on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, which is an increase over the 2007 budget of 23%. They want $4.6 billion for the F-22 Raptor, and increase of 15% over 2007. They want $3.1 billion for the Carrier Replacement Program, an increase of 117.7% over 2007.
You don't see a way to fund healthcare would be by trimming some of THAT??
Maybe if we stop trying to run other countries we wouldn't NEED as much of that hardware?
And maybe, just maybe, if we focused on the problems at home we could actually solve some? Instead of focusing billions and billions of dollars on nations that we have no business meddling in.