Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "The Increase In Military Spending Alone Could Fund Free Public College" video.

  1. After WWII federal government spending was 14% of GDP, now it is 20%. In 1960 defense spending was 10% of GDP, now it is 3%. Leftists, you are getting your wish of cutting defense spending and increasing federal spending.
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  2. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?locations=US
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  3. I know. It is remarkable how ignorant people are. If we took this money and used it on "tuition free college" it will increase demand without increasing supply meaning it will end up costing more. Kyle's economic illiteracy knows no bounds.
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  4. "If we cut the military budget in half, not only would we still be the strongest country but we could fund free public college, universal healthcare, public daycare, end world hunger" Healthcare is 1/6 of our economy. Defense is 3%. Seems like your public education did not teach you math.
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  5. " Is free k-12 a money sink? Accessible education builds up our countries intelligence which increases innovation." K-12 education is ran at the state and local level. Also, that teaches the remedial skills necessary for life, ideally. College is different. College is an investment. The value in college is investing your own money and time and learning how to manage a schedule, manage a budget, developing contacts, while pursuing a goal. It isn't just about sitting in a classroom, listening to a lecture and getting a degree. "We have hundreds of thousands of would be doctors, scientists, engineers etc, who are left working menial jobs instead of making a difference. " Not true. Being an engineer and a doctor is a high paying job. People don't do it for two simple reasons 1. They can't 2. They don't want to Money is not the issue. "Not to mention that there's trillions of dollars in student debt" The student loan program increased demand without increasing supply meaning tuition went up.
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  6. "He wont be happy until we're a country of uneducated Christian zealot wage slaves working for the military industrial complex. " What makes you say that? One, I am not a Christian. Next, I am an educator that teaches physics and chemistry. I support having an educated society.
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  7. "hahaha,nice joke. Where di you get those numbers from? Fox?" Here is defense spending https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?locations=US Here is healthcare https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.TOTL.ZS?locations=US
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  8. Red Menace, look at this chart http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/aug/17/facebook-posts/pie-chart-federal-spending-circulating-internet-mi/
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  9. Ryan T, that's correct. People don't realize that cutting defense will lead to many jobs being lost. Now how do you take care of that?
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  10. Troy J, it is $80 billion, not $800 billion. Either way, for the past 60 years defense spending has been dropping. We can get into a discussion on what federal programs should exist and why, but for now military exists along with medicare and medicaid. People depend on it. One party wants to increase medicare and medicaid (along with other programs) and cut military. The other wants to increase defense and cut other programs. To me, with the current situation, having the two parties do that where people depend on all programs is not necessarily bad. Wanting to cut defense by 50% is similar to wanting to cut Medicare by 50%, too many people depend on it. I feel that Medicare should not exist, but I will never support cutting it that drastically that quickly in the current situation.
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  11. John M, Nutcase is a child. He has been disrespectful to me many times. He is an ultra leftist that cannot look outside of their own bubble. The military does many things well. To just push to cut it will have negative repercussions. I lean right on many issues and feel that medicare is unconstitutional. But I will never push to just completely eliminate it, or even cut it by 50%, or even 10%. To many people and programs depend on it now.
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  12. Red Menace, defense spending is Constitutional. That is the standard. We have states to spend on other programs if we feel we need them. Even at that we already spend around $1 trillion on healthcare at the federal level. And when you include state and local spending we spend as much on education as we do defense.
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  13. Since 1950 federal government spending went from 14% of GDP to 20%. In 1960 defense spending was 10% of GDP, now it is 3%.
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  14. https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/total_spending_chart https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYONGDA188S Now for defense spending https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?locations=US "But more importantly none of these historical values from so far back in time really matter because the world is a much different place now than it was in 1950 or 1960." I agree to a point. However, my point is that the country leftists are pushing for we are progressing to. The left is pushing for less military spending and more federal government spending and socialism through the federal government. The political left is getting the country they want so to me any problems we have are on them. "So what urgent need is there for the US to ramp up defence spending 12.9% higher this year than last year?" Two arguments behind this. One, defense spending is Constitutional, most federal programs aren't. Next, defense spending has been dropping for years while other programs have been increasing in spending. An advantage of the two party system is you get one side increasing one set of programs while the other side increasing the other side. We can get into detail on what programs are needed, how they should be funded and managed and so on. But overall they exist and people depend on them. Just continuing to cut defense while programs like the Department of Ed or EPA get raises, or visa versa, is not the best strategy right now unless the program you are cutting you plan on completely eliminating, in which that is another talking point. "This increase in spending in absolute terms is larger than every other nations' current total military budgets with the exceptions of China and Saudi Arabia" We have been cutting our defense budget for around 7 years, it is time for a raise.
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  15. Since 1950 federal government spending as a percent of GDP went from 14% to 20%. Defense spending from 1960 to now went from 10% to 3% of GDP. We are decreasing defense spending while increasing federal spending.
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  16. Military spending is around 16% of the federal budget. We spend more on social welfare programs.
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  17. The Bee Factory, I don't say that with disgust. I have my opinions on it and we can discuss that if you want. But my point is that the government leftists want is what we are progressing to. That is less military spending and more socialism. To me, in my opinion, any problems we have in this nation are on the political left now.
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  18. The Bee Factory, I actually support welfare, just not it its current form. But go ahead and make accusations about me.
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  19. Spencer, what professors are going to work for free? None. So when you increase enrollment professors will demand more and colleges will charge more, or professors will give a lower quality product.
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  20. Defense spending has been dropping for the past 50 years. In 1960 it was 10% of GDP, now it is 3%. Meanwhile federal government spending has been increasing.
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  21. Most conflict is settled off of the battle field. The military does that. The military is 1/3 of what it was in 1960. How much more do you want to keep cutting?
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