Ted Cruz Announces

[Ifly2]

The answer is, you reduce the very bloated government wherever you can, and there are plenty of places to do that, one of them is NOT the military, ever.

Maybe in the fictional place where you are dictator

We need serious cuts to military spending

And, no, tax cuts don't always "work"

 

[Ifly2]

Certainly is a good thing that there are enough intelligent foks out there to counteract the low information voting going on over there on the right

 

[EastUS1]

Certainly is a good thing that there are enough intelligent foks out there to counteract the low information voting going on over there on the right

 
I'm honestly curious here: on exactly what even possible basis might you even laughably imagine yourself as "intelligent"? Perhaps you've at least a truly impressive IQ to boast of? What might that be?....Or what? We could all use another liberal joke here. 😉

 

[KCFlyer]

 
I'm honestly curious here: on exactly what basis might you even laughably imagine yourself as "intelligent"? Perhaps you've at least a truly impressive IQ to boast of? What might that be?....Or what? We could all use another liberal joke here. 😉

 
Which is a more intelligent statement
 
1.  Three minus two equals one
 
2. Three minus two equals five

 

[EastUS1]

 
Which is a more intelligent statement
 
1.  Three minus two equals one
 
2. Three minus two equals five

 
Perhaps I'm being overly obtuse and simply missing your supposed "point", and all I can suggest is that you take that issue up with other liberals so in love with Common Core "math". I rather suspect that "Three minus two equals five" could be readily "explained" therein.
 
Perhaps you should try this first and then get back to me:
 
https://www.mensa.org/workout

 

[KCFlyer]

 
Perhaps I'm being overly obtuse and simply missing your supposed "point", and all I can suggest is that you take that issue up with other liberals so in love with Common Core "math". I rather suspect that "Three minus two equals five" could be readily "explained" therein.

 
I'm not using common core...I'm using "Laugher math".  Reduce taxes increases revenues and the world it is a beautiful place.   Indeed...the GOP proposes reducing capital gains taxes to zero....using Laugher math, we should eliminate the debt in about a week and a half. 

 

[Dog Wonder]

Life on the internet isn't life at all.  Ask Petey the bot.

 

[EastUS1]

We need serious cuts to military spending

 
OK. Being yourself an obviously well-trained and "battle-tested-warrior"....exactly where and in what branches should more "cuts to military spending" be made?

 

[EastUS1]

Life on the internet isn't life at all.

 
For which you've my fullest sympathies. No matter how long I'm ever away from this futile idiocy; you seem to always remain a constant.

 

[EastUS1]

 
I'm not using common core...I'm using "Laugher math".  Reduce taxes increases revenues and the world it is a beautiful place.   Indeed...the GOP proposes reducing capital gains taxes to zero....using Laugher math, we should eliminate the debt in about a week and a half. 

 
The commercial/financial/real world/wholly clueless nature of that expressed "innocence" prevents any semblance of reasonable comment. I don't wish to further offend for no apparently useful purpose.
 
What's the even possible point?

 

[Dog Wonder]

 
this futile idiocy; .

Is all yours.

 

[Ifly2]

OK. Being yourself an obviously well-trained and "battle-tested-warrior"....exactly where and in what branches should more "cuts to military spending" be made?

Never said that either
Yet another straw man up in flames

I do not have the access or expertise to make statements or draw conclusions on individual programs. Like the entire rest of government, we could talk about "eliminating fraud waste and abuse", but that never gets done and doesn't do enough.

I do know that we spend more on "defense" than twenty-something of the next highest spending countries. All but a couple of those twenty-something are our allies. We subsidize the military needs and provide the liom's share of "security" for nearly the entire free world and most of the rest of it.

It is my position and belief that we should not, and do not need a military capable of it.

I know that is heresy and sacrilege to you, and a page full of other perjoratives.

That doesn't matter. Your opinion is worth exactly as much as mine.

I'll go along with cuttimg spending enough to balance the budget plus provide enough surplus to pay down the debt in a reasonable period of time, say 15 years, like a "smart, if you must have one at all" mortgage.

Ideally, a deal could be worked out to allow the government to provide essential services and cut the rest. We have seen that concept fail repeatedly.

Givn that history of failure, I can live with cutting proportionately equally across the board. It's a terrible way to do business, but "we" are so far incapable of operating intelligently, we are going BK, and neither party has a chance in hell of fixing it.

 

[KCFlyer]

 
The commercial/financial/real world/wholly clueless nature of that expressed "innocence" prevents any semblance of reasonable comment. I don't wish to further offend for no apparently useful purpose.
 
What's the even possible point?

 
Okay...Cruz is president and he gives you all your 2% tax cut.  Now we gotta fight ISIS. And now we gotta show Iran that Obama was a pussy with the Iran deal. And we gotta strengthen the military (and pay for the wars the right has a hard on for)....even if we eliminated food stamps and Medicaid - we won't have enough for all that increased defense spending.  Will the debt be as important then as it is now?  There isn't enough "fat" to cut everywhere else when we need to ramp up the military for world domination. 

 

[EastUS1]

 
Okay...Cruz is president and he gives you all your 2% tax cut.  Now we gotta fight ISIS. And now we gotta show Iran that Obama was a pussy with the Iran deal. And we gotta strengthen the military (and pay for the wars the right has a hard on for)....even if we eliminated food stamps and Medicaid - we won't have enough for all that increased defense spending.  Will the debt be as important then as it is now?  There isn't enough "fat" to cut everywhere else when we need to ramp up the military for world domination. 

 
No offense ma'am, but you've clearly so little clue of national/international economics and just plain power that we'd both just be wasting our time discussing it further. I hope you and yours had a very Merry Christmas and will likewise enjoy a happy new year to come.
 
"And now we gotta show Iran"? Don't even get me started. You've NO clue as to just how much my fellows and myself wanted to get our chance to fly over to and obliterate Iran's "Air Farce"/etc when that pussy carter...All we needed was for the "choke chains" to be off...."Let slip the Dogs of War"/etc....But NO!...After all; we had the "benefit" of another puzzy-liberal joke of a "president"...

 

[KCFlyer]

 
No offense ma'am, but you've clearly so little clue of national/international economics and just plain power that we'd both just be wasting our time discussing it further. I hope you and yours had a very Merry Christmas and will likewise enjoy a happy new year to come.
 
"And now we gotta show Iran"? Don't even get me started. You've NO clue as to just how much my fellows and myself wanted to get our chance to fly over to and obliterate Iran's "Air Farce"/etc when that pussy carter...All we needed was for the "choke chains" to be off...."Let slip the Dogs of War"/etc....But NO!...After all; we had the "benefit" of another puzzy-liberal joke of a "president"...

 
No, I guess I don't know how much you and your fellows want to do that.  You know something?  It costs money.  Are you and your fellows willing to hold a bake sale or something to fund your foray?   And after you've done it (and got what is left of Iran to back ISIS), will everybody go home... or will more costs be involved?  If so....how do you pay for it?    It's really neat to talk about kicking ass...but there are costs involved.  Can you just come out and say that for the past 8 years that you and the rest of the right have just been blowing smoke out your ass about this debt thing?  Because if we do what you pit bulls want - it's going to cost money that a tax cut isn't going to provide.  Where do we get the money?