Posted on 04/07/2015 8:49:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
You’re on the wrong site. The military is 1/7th of the budget and 1/2 of the Constitutional mandate for the fedgov.
Your priorities are hosed.
Reagan’s Triad - the formula that makes conservatism work, is equal parts economic and social conservatism, and a strong military.
I can accept either of Walker, Cruz, Jindal, Paul or Rubio.
No Bush, No Huckabee, No Santorum. Fiorina as VP candidate could make an excellent attack dog on Hillary without being accused of war on women. Trump is untested, and unpredictable. I scratched off Kasich after learning he is for expanding medicaid, favors common core & seems limited on national issues.
We can’t eliminate aid to poor people unless their are jobs for them.
This is why we need a full employment policy. Not a cheap labor policy.
And yes, I would love to see the wasteful federal spending eliminated.
No thanks, No way, He!! no!
You're obviously more than willing to have this nation vulnerable and easily taken over. No wonder you like Rand the nutcase.
His ideas are pathetically banal and worthless; his understanding of financial matters leave a great deal to be desired.
“Military need to be cut 50%, across the board cuts everywhere is needed”
The US Military is a small part of the US budget, yet is one thing expressly mandated by the Constitution for the government to maintain.
Your comment makes you sound exactly like a leftist who believe that military spending is an affront to their preferred socialistic spending.
Are you sure you're on the right site ?
He will muddy the waters and draw votes from a true conservative.
The same goes for Perry, Santorum and Huckabee, they have no chance.
The only person they help by entering the race is Jebster and that is something we damn sure don't need.
Go Cruz go!!!
Hah!
No.
...”As much as I like Cruz, I prefer Rand. The other GOP candidates don’t understand that US is bankrupt and they all still want to maintain a large military force. US can not afford it. Military need to be cut 50%, across the board cuts everywhere is needed.”
Yes. Continuing to run the national debt up by a million dollars a minute will bring an economic holocaust down upon us, probably sooner rather than later. And, most people do not understand the implications of that.
...”The greatest threat to US are not those countries but the debt.”...
YES!
He does have that Cousin Eddie look.
“The US Military is a small part of the US budget, yet is one thing expressly mandated by the Constitution for the government to maintain.”
You would think that the Ron/Rand Paul so called constitutional experts would remember that little part.
You truncated your last item - I fixed it.
I suspect that they want him to run as a credible Third Party candidate to help Hillary. If we run Jeb, it will almost certainly work. If we run Cruz, the Rand will likely pull as many votes from Hillary as he does from Republicans.
The country is burning itself to the ground. I say if that’s what they want, more power to them. I can always leave.
The military is 1/7 of the budget. There are MANY more places, and MANY more ways, to cut trillions out of the budget, without gutting one of the few actual Constitutional responsibilities. Nice try, though.
Right after Rand announced he was here in soviet Red Hampshire, sniffing the hindquarters of the Free Staters and other Paulbots who don’t realize that Rand is running, not Ron.
What is a full employment policy? I don’t know exactly what you are talking about but people who use buzzwords often frighten me.
Oh Brother, then you must frighten easily.
How about eliminating the H1-B Visa program, enforcing our immigration laws, enacting some reasonable tariff’s, eliminating the ACA and reducing regulations on business. (For a start).
Many people who claim to be for Free Markets want to rig the supply of labor to the cheapest possible rate.
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