[RealJustme]

Is there any doubt as to why this brain dead drunk was picked by Obama?

Ap- Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced plans to ask Congress for two new rounds of aggressive military base closures and promised that environmental remediation of those properties will be his priority going into 2014.

[elklindo69]

The US military budget can be cut by 50% and it would be more than twice the amount than any other country spends on military. And that still would provide a more than adequate defense.

If you haven't figured it out by now, but we are already at war with a frenemy...China. And it's not the one that they will discuss on the Fox news network.

Does cyber warfare ring a bell?

[RealJustme]

The US military budget can be cut by 50% and it would be more than twice the amount than any other country spends on military. And that still would provide a more than adequate defense.

Our public education budget is five times the amount of any other Country spends on education, are you saying we should cut education costs by 400%? Our military budget is a fraction of the public education budget but I don't hear liberal bringing those costs up?

[RealJustme]

One more thing, at least our military is good at what it does, can't say that for the most expensive public education system.

[elklindo69]

The US military budget can be cut by 50% and it would be more than twice the amount than any other country spends on military. And that still would provide a more than adequate defense.

Our public education budget is five times the amount of any other Country spends on education, are you saying we should cut education costs by 400%? Our military budget is a fraction of the public education budget but I don't hear liberal bringing those costs up?

I never knew that you can cut something more than 100%?

Indeed our educational system needs improvement.

[elklindo69]

One more thing, at least our military is good at what it does, can't say that for the most expensive public education system.

The vast potential of the military is not even being utilized, so your point is irrelevant. I would rather see money go to educational training rather than military spending as is.

I once read that Bill Gates suggested that all students learn how to write code. So what's more important? To teach kids something useful or to spend money on useless weapons systems that will never see the light of day, let alone combat.

[RealJustme]

The vast potential of the military is not even being utilized

And our education system is??? :lol:

[Leroy]

The vast potential of the military is not even being utilized, so your point is irrelevant. I would rather see money go to educational training rather than military spending as is.

I once read that Bill Gates suggested that all students learn how to write code. So what's more important? To teach kids something useful or to spend money on useless weapons systems that will never see the light of day, let alone combat.

Every weapons system developed for our country has been used, and the development of those technologies have always found uses in the Civilian world.

As for teaching our kids to code - WHY? I learned to program in the late 70's, got my first paying job in 78, and I made money for decades after that, writing code, but, once the Internet and other Communications methods improved to where we could easily transfer data around the globe, the companies started farming out coding jobs to countries that provided coders for 1/100th the cost of our US programmers. Even today coding outside the USA is significantly cheaper than coders inside the USA, so teaching coding to students, like most liberals failed ideas, is only setting students up for welfare and public assistance.

What you fail to see/understand is that spending MORE on education does not improve the actual education level of students, our system is broken because liberals have taken over, they strip any responsibility for teaching, they absolve the teachers of any need for teaching, they only seek to brainwash the children, they even make excuses for children needing different standards and lowering of the overall passing scores on standardized testing.

What we need is to remove the entire education system, create a new system that is based on rewarding actual proof of education, and to understand that some people will always be stupid, that some people will always be at the lowest end of the education level, that's what we have manual labor jobs for. Everyone is not created equal, they just start with an equal chance, what they can do with it, or what they are capable of doing with it is something else entirely.

So, we have investment in our Military that comes back in many ways - mostly in National Security, secondly in Civilian application of technologies, and importantly, in National Pride in the Country (that won't sit well with liberals). We also have a failed educational system, but liberals can only make suggestions that increase that failure.

[RealJustme]

An example that there's to much money with no controls in the public education system is that even in Mexico, the head of the teacher's union was able to steal 200 million dollars without it even being missed. She bought 3 multi million dollar homes in California, bought a private jet and once flew to New York and spent over a million dollars on jewerly and no one thought anything of it. She got away with it for 25 years until someone tipped the police off, they were only able to go back 5 years and found 200 million had been stolen, unknow how much over the previous 20 years since they destroyed all the records.

If a teacher's union member in poor Mexico can steal 200 million unnoticed, image how much is being stolen all across the United States. If the run out of money, they cry if we care for the children we'll pass more levies and increase taxes for the poor little children. In the mean time we have High School students graduating that can't read at the 4th grade level.