Why does Bush spend money on an army when people in America live on the street?
109414
the better question would be: why do we spend billions of dollars to go research outer space rather than paying off the national debt or feeding the hungry?
303429
america  the israeli state is on a war footing at all times and   the drug cartels with  street crime and kidnapings  let out columbia  UK has   a higher cost of living than here in US  watch the price of housing on the BBC channel   An  Hispanic man was asked why he kept crossing the border and he said tobe poor in mexico i work around the clock but the poor in America have a warm house a tv clothing food  a car and  people make sure of this  sooo  id rather Be POOR in AMERICA  an olde  POOr Dude that owns a computer
574748
Most of those supporting Bush are upper middle class or rich elite who do not feel the effects of his policies in a negative way. They continue to benefit from them in fact. At the same time they blame those who are suffering from the effects of the policies and claim they are lazy, don't work hard enough, or made poor personal choices and deserve what they get. These people do not usually have sons or daughters serving in the military or sacrafice in any way. Instead they complain about paying taxes to help those who are impoverished while they continue to get richer off the labor of the working poor or the illegal immigrants who work for minimum wage or less.
44272
We in the military work for civilian bosses that are appointed by the President and approved by Congress.  The President gives the orders, but Congress controls the budget.   It's the people's money that funds us after all. Furthermore, we are an extension of the government's political strength, often used to secure geopolitical goals rather than strictly to defend our country. As such, we will never be free of political machinations.
138081
Bush is just a fag who likes to bomb other countries and take over them. He likes to accuse people of having weapons of mass descruction, and only helped Florida in their time of need because his brother runs the state... :P\n\nAnd plus, the cost of the war in Iraq is running us about 244 billion dollars, and is increasing about 1,000 dollars every SECOND! Do you think you would be able to afford to help some people in tragedy if you were wasting all your money shooting people?!\n\nI dunno. Maybe Bush isn't doing anything because he got mad at the traffic during Marti Gras. Hey, you never know...
640732
Money buys Bush`s no matter what country it comes from
627530
because the people in gov't are personally financially benefitting from this "crisis".  Bush's family money is in oil.
577964
I have to agree that we aren't doing the right thing by waging wars we can't 1) afford, 2) justify, 3) support as a nation. We spend $100 Mil in Iraq, why?  Why even go over there?  \n\nLet's spend that amount of money on improving the New Orleans levies, AIDS research, Cancer research, improving the welfare system so people can't take advantage of it, create more scholarships for people of ALL races, improving ghettos, law enforcement for larger cities, redesigning FEMA, lessen the national debt, put up a wall between us and Mexico, etc.  \n\nLet's go into countries that actually pose a threat to us or someone else.  There are several African countries that have worse leaders than Hussein that we could go into.  We could send the same number of troops we sent to Iraq to actually find Osama - he and all of Al Qaeda are much more dangerous to us than Saddam.  If the UN don't think we should go to another country we shouldn't go.  That's why the UN exists.  \n\nMost Americans were for us going into Afghanistan, but about half were against Iraq, another 10% or so didn't have an opinion.  Why was I against it?  1) there were no weapons of mass destruction that we could prove, 2) we still haven't found Osama, 3) Saddam is a butt hole but there are worse leaders in this world than him,  4) They posed no threat to us. \n\nI think that our military should be protecting us not starting fights with everyone.  Our economy is weak, no matter what the numbers look like, it is unstable at best.  We are losing the technology battle.  We don't do well making cars.  We need to get people with oil interests out of Washington.  So yes, we are destroying ourselves and the military is leading the effort.
929396
Its the country have a avearge fix budget,then increasing its spending on its military strenght would mean that there is less spending in other areas...like social development etc etc.\n\nincreasing its spending on military will also make the surrounding nation more suspisious.\nThe fact that a country begin to spend more on military hardware means something...and ost of the times,offensive purpose.\nThis usually can lead of various political unstability.
1157089
It's called 'exporting good will'. I agree with you that more money needs to be spent at home.\n\nThe money sent to other countries is just a small part of the budget. It's very expensive to run a government. A better solution would be to cut the defense budget. It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber.
1089609
Is funny you ask that Question.Asking myself the same think in Canada .\nEvent giving money to help in other country . When at home (USA and Canada) we have peoples living on the streets at night , peoples who are in need for living place.\nVery Good Question
596940
Whether the US-Guv created Al-Kye-duh or not, it sure has made it easier to justify increased military spending, hasn't it?  Just another way for the rich to get richer, and in the process, turn the entire world against the good, hard-working people who live in the United States.  This justifies increased defense spending, and it goes on and on from there...
92053
It's all about the oil. Bush and his minons could care less about the religion (Islam). Bush is a lap dog of the rich and powerful. Bush doesn't care how many American and Allied Soliders are killed. He doesn't care if innocent civilians are killed. He is the reason America and Americans are hated all over the world.\n\nCorrection: Bush is the reason why American are hated EVEN more around the world especailly in the Middle East.\n\nBy the way...there is civil war in Iraq so our soliders are caught in the middle while the oil companies make their money.
219234
I am white lower income($15000) American and Bush is destroying our family. Gas is to high, cost of food too high, cost of heating too high, cost of living too damn high. My husband is a disabled veteran who receives ssi and we have plenty of class.
1075375
Because Clinton overcut the military budgets when he became president. He used the end of the 'cold war' as an excuse, but his real reasoning is he has always had a personal vendetta against the military. They were grossly underfunded for eight years, and those nice little amenities like body armor and guns that don't jam take mucho cashy money- money the government has only in the last 4 years or so actually begun delivering, and that has been somewhat squandered, to a degree, by the civilian powers-that-barely-be at the Pentagon (which means that Bush is also responsible, to a degree, because he either appointed these morons, or appointed the people who hired these morons).
974836
not a protester just one of the troops... your additional comments... amen, not very many people put there money where their mouth is
1117193
This is the whole nature of President Bush's War On Terror. In the months following 9/11 President Bush could have asked us to do almost anything, I think. Instead he told us to go shopping and then in February he began beating the drum for the long-sought for War in Iraq.\n\nThe war isn't popular as it is. Most of us don't really have anything vested in it. I personally know ONE guy over there and he's not family. And that's when Bush has asked nothing from this country for the war---the money is borrowed from the Chinese, there's no rationing, no homefront commandos, no war bonds, no victory gardens, no raised taxes.  Supporting the war means paying lipservice and that's it. If you support the war it's because you also support the President and his "spend and borrow, and it's all about me" philosophy, which would naturally preclude actually doing something for the war effort.\n\n\n"Hmmm probably alot more than the anti war idiots, who do not have the guts to go to the middle east in person to kiss the terrorists *sses!"\n\nSweet Seductress,  that's a cheap shot. You know that  two-thirds of the American public does not want to "kiss the terrorists *sses!" or love terrorists in any way. I've seen other answers of yours and you're better than an answer like that.