Comments by "Scott Tovey" (@scotttovey) on "Real Engineering"
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"1% economic elite who possess 90% of the nation’s wealth,"
That is lie number 1. They do not possess the nations wealth. They possess their own wealth.
"school children without textbooks"
Is caused by poor management at the local level, not the national level. A few years back there was a report of Detroit students not having books. Those books were found sitting in a warehouse all wrapped up and tidy, not having been distributed.
"or necessary school personnel (like nurses!),"
"people without health care, an entire working population practically a pink slip away from no health insurance, etc. "
I'll agree that people without health care is a problem, but that is also a local level problem, not a national problem.
"The Pentagon gets 67¢ of every tax dollar of non-entitlement spending."
People would much prefer to rob the rich man and give his money away, than to put their hand in their pocket and give to the poor and needy.
National defense is the Federal Government's primary constitutional duty. Health care is not mentioned in the constitution. Nor is giving aid to the poor. Health care and giving aid to the poor is best done at the local level, not the national level. The problem is with people's attitudes. Granted, it's hard to determine whether or not that person on the street corner is legit or just a scam artist, and it's just as hard to determine whether or not the NGO that claims to be helping the poor, is in fact, using much of their revenue to help the poor. But government with corrupt bureaucrats is not any better at doing the job.
"People owning billions pay no taxes or very"
In some cases, billion dollar corporations use the tax laws to reduce their tax burden to nothing. Despite this fact, the top 10% of earners, pay 90% of all tax revenue that the government takes in. This is said so often I have no idea how or why you would disregard it and put forth this statement as though it were true.
It is best to let the rich do what the rich know how to do. Create jobs and create wealth by creating jobs.
Now, if you prefer to be unemployed, hungry, and homeless, then by all means; confiscate all the money that the rich have and spend it on the poor. It won't last very long, and you will find out as every socialist, communist, marxist, wealth confiscating society in history has found to be true; without personal wealth, the nation as a whole ends up in economic poverty and the only rich that exist, are the elitists liars running the government and confiscating the wealth.
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All those of you that complain about the military budget are living in a delusional fantasy world in your minds.
You have it in your flawed thinking that if the United States did not have a military, the money spent on the military would be, could be spent on some imaginary more important thing. That's not reality!
In the truth of reality it could not be spent on your pet projects, as you all would be too busy ducking bullets and avoiding bombs to be able to go to work on a daily basis and earn your current living.
If it wasn't a communist, socialist, or marxist attempting to overthrow the government, as we see in the cities of riots and the democratic party. It would be an army of Islamic extremists chopping off heads and demanding that you worship their false god instead of the one true God in heaven.
The only reason that the United States is where it is in the world, economically and militarily, is because past generations of Americans believed in the true God of heaven, believed that He gave His only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ for our sins so that by His sacrifice, we may be saved and pardoned from our sins and lived their lives to the best of their ability to live up to the ideals that are part of the Judeo-Christian ethic.
There is always a big kid on the block that some little kid wants to defeat. Since WWII, that big kid has been predominantly the United States. The current moral crisis in America will ultimately end that dominance and it will ultimately, in the long run, shift to the Nation of Israel.
It's so sad that so many are so blind to the facts of life.
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