Why carnt the American goverment spend there money on the poor instead of military defence???
483074
there are two issues...spending monies so friends in the military support systems recieve it and the fact that all civilizations have class systems designed to have a steep downhill slope.the industry that helps the poor once they are reduced to crime,depression,the requiring of assistance is not much different than the military...just a different face.there will always be poor.
11944
Because they are either snot nosed rich kids who take everything gran-id or they are poor and think the money should be spent on them so they can continue generation after generation sucking money out of our government because they are too lazy to work. They have no appreciation for those of us that serve proudly so that that can sleep at night w/o bomb sirens. Ignorant people are against the military. Justa simple way that you can judge someones character.
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.
390946
are you serious ? or you are just posting this to get a kick out of people's responses.\n\nIt is a known fact that out of all industrialized nations in the world, the US does the least to help the poor (in terms of their possibilities). There are many good things about the US, helping the poor ain't one of them !\n\nWhere exactly do you get your information ? Let me guess Fox News?
690409
I dont know. I really dont know. How would you find out? Government statistics? Not a good vote-getter! Even if you go back to previous governments , its still pretty hard to judge how scrupulous they were.They , of course , 'justify' the expense - 'defending freedom' , a 'cost-effective' health service,an aging population affecting pensions ( gosh , an aging population , that must have come as a surprise!). Bit of a rant here , but I feel that you understand!
249621
The military is for war not peace.\nSoldiers do not bring peace to the Earth.\nThey bring fear and death to the enemy.\nDeath is the only peace soldiers bring.\nSpending on the military for peace doesn't even sound right because it isn't right. \nSo in short the consequences of military spending for peace is  of course WAR.\nWhoever says otherwise is a salesman or a fool.
250854
Its not like the country is spending too much money on 'butter' its all guns, guns, guns, and tax breaks for those that can afford to pay the taxes and nothing for the poorest of the poor.  Three things will have to occur to get the USA out of this mess.\n  1.  Raise taxes on the middle and upper classes to something like 35-45% income tax.  \n  2.  Stop expending money on the military that ultimately gets spent outside the country.\n  3.  Raise tariffs on commodities coming in from outside the trading block to encourage domestic manufacturing to increase.  You can ship the middle class to China then expect to have a stable economy and political system.  Aristotle was right about the more 'stake holders' in a system, the more stable the system.
606687
We spend far too much on defense (especially on foolish space programs) and social programs are in the gutter.  This is the neo-con's dream come true, the Libertarian vision, and we are seeing the consequences of such selfishness and lack of humanity; homelssness on the rise, elders who served our country in the times of real war having to choose between eating or buying their medications, drug addiction, job loss, and overall a national psychological state of mind that borders on psychosis.  People have lost all vlaues in regard to community and they say "family values" well, families do not work in a vacuum and to allow your nieghbor to starve just so you can get that one more useless peice of entertainment or other valueless items is a sign of mental illness.  \n\nWe need more funding for social services such as Medicaid.  Wake up America!
864076
Its another way to spend the money the Government say they have not got!! Put the money into schooling and hospitals were its needed.  The kids nowadays will not listen to some super nanny!!  What will they do take the naughty children to the seaside for the day, give them a holiday, buy a new computer or game on taxpayers money!!!  I think our Goverment has gone bananas!!!
1142927
Because our government isn't about alleviating poverty.  Its about getting government off the backs of the rich.
1055996
Troops aren't in the military to get benefits, & vetrans shouldn't be stealing for the reconstruction money over an offense by the previous & now defunct government. There are frozen assets in the US & Europe that could be attached, but the US govt should provide for these men's disablity. I'm for a vastly different & better VA program, but that's always been down the list of priorities for both parties. Troops support the President because he's taking on a confrontational foreign policy that they agree with. \n\nAs for the poor:\n\nDemocrats believe in conspiracy darwinism... That is that poor people are poor because the man is holding them down (from education, jobs, etc). Hence as victims they need govt intervention to save them from theri oppressors. To solve this they do just as they tend with any other problem, they throw money at it. \n\nRepublicans tend to believe in something similar to social darwinism. That is that the world being a natural free-market, those that are capable (smart, dedicated, hard working, innovative, etc) tend to get rich, while those that are not capable (uneducated, lazy, not socially motivated, etc) tend to get poor. Of course everyone starts at different levels. Those that start rich (spoiled bastard tho they are) are living the rewards of hard work in past generations, and good for them. Everyone else can't climb the whole ladder at once. Your job in life is to work hard as you can so you can EARN your children a better oportunity than you had (ask illegal immigrants what they're doing). The role of govt is only to make sure everyone has access to the minimum level of opportunity necessary to gain the average level income. It is good for us to be charitable with the poor, but this should be structured in such a way as to help them find the opportunities to succeed on their own. As in welfare should only last 18-24 months & include mandatory job training & placement, family counseling, etc with free child care while that's taking place. And, we should double the number of fraud investigators on the program.\n\nPS, Bush raised the number significantly below which you own zero taxes. Head start was used to manipulate children from their parents' views, it would have died because of this, but Reagan saved it by putting it back on a strictly educational path & tripled its funding. Both Bushs have increased funding also. This Pres Bush passed significant tax cuts that were went back to people according to what they paid in. That means if you are paying 15% you don't really do much to help the govt & you aren't going to get much back. That's fair, versus democrats who strictly want to redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor without regard to earning it (again because they think they're victims of the corporate bugoise - very Karl Marx of them).
231696
The U.S. had quite a bit of money at one time. And as all big wigs with money and clout do, they feel the need to put their two cents in pretty much everywhere. The American government feels they are strong enough to handle anything. That is so untrue. They stick their noses in foreign business and try to correct it (helping to form a new government in Iraq) and all the while, totally forget about their own citizens. We still have homeless veterans, We still have hungry children, we still have an awful drug problem. But is America spending their dollars to help those folks? Of course not. It's rediculous. A man once said to some folks, "Clean up your own backyard before you come talking about mine." America should listen to that statement.
155077
Anna, I'm sorry that makes too much sense.  Besides you wouldn't won't those crazy catholics, christians, & Jews to get all that tax money (which is ours to begin with) to spend as they see fit.  Don't you understand that big gov't & liberals can spend your money better than you can.  In addition, that would mean a lot of low income peolpe would actulally have to try and better themselves by working with churches & charities, instead of waiting on that monthly gov't check.
741241
Like I, the government doesn't care about the poor.\n\nI wouldn't participate in such acts.
457291
because the government can choose to spend the added income on other things like national defense, intelligence activities, or war, instead of on better social welfare.
983320
Latin America is one of the places in the world that less spend money with military. We simply don't think that's important. To state that we don't because we don't have money to is ridiculous, excuse me but only a stupid gringo like you can say something like that. We don't enter in war because we simply are not war-oriented countries. We don't like it. And everybody should be suspicious of countries that are so proud of their military power. Do you think Arabs have more money than Latin Americans? And to the stupid ones that say that Latin American countries make war agains themselfes I want to remind that Cuba is the only non-democratic country Latin America nowadays. Give me bad marks if you want, I don't need and I don't want your aproval, stupid gringo.\n\nBy the way, you are so prouded of your military, why couldn't you handle with Vietnan and why can't you handle with Iraq?
1148264
when we waste anything it should be use to help people that are below poverty\nfor example,\n\nNow we find out that FEMA, the lead federal agency, wasted about $1 billion — money that could have gone to hurricane victims who really needed it.\n\nNeed me to say more?\nread link below