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But the question then becomes one of what missions it should take on. Should the "World Police" really be led by America, or should it be more equally distributed?

Ok and after Johnny takes that govt check and pisses it away on an Xbox, tattoo, a couple of cases of beer and a penis piercing then what? Have the govt seize more of Bill Gates' money until he's a broke mofo like the rest? How about just print another gazillion bucks to give Johnny more beer money? Hey let's just pay everybody with the game Monopoly and use the money in that because that's how worthless the money is going to be. Oh yeah Johnny's penis piercing has become infected but he has no money anymore so I guess we had better give him free medical care because after all JOHNNYS GOTTA HAVE HIS FUCKIN BEER MONEY.

Besides we are doing that right now, hell we have been doing since the 60's. You have tons of inner city single mom's who get a govt check for every kid they have. Look up The Great Society passed by the democrats in Congress and LBJ signed off on it.

Also if I see another "the US needs to cut defense spending because the defense budget takes up 4,000,000,000,000% of the total US govt budget" I'm gonna puke my guts out! The defense budget isn't even 10% of the federal budget. The waste and corruption is ACROSS THE BOARD in the US govt. I read there are like 80 different federal govt job retraining programs with huge staffs and bloated budgets. You think maybe we should cut a few of those first? FBI, CIA, DIA, NSA, NRO, DEA, ATF, INS all various law enforcement, intell agencies that have overlapping ops. Ever since the Dept of Education was created in the 70's under Carter the kids are coming out of public schools dumber and dumber every year and every year there budget goes up and yet schools beg parents for their kids to buy pencils and paper because for some reason the schools can't afford to supply paper and pencils.

Now if there are folks out there who don't like the fact we have so many supercarriers let me tell you some folks who are. The people who surivied the Indonesian quake and tsunami. The US CBG that deployed there was the only fully functioning hospital, the only source of fresh water, the only source of power and the only operational airport in the area to airlift supplies to survivors. We also deployed a CBG to Japan after their quake and tsunami. Meanwhile we had a CBG in the Persian Gulf doing its thing and CBG's ready to keep an eye on China or to go to another crisis and still have carriers in dock so the crews could be with their families and still have carrier in a 2 to 3 year overhaul.

Don't blame the US for our large military when NATO, South Korea, Japan and Australia/New Zealand USED THE US TO BE THEIR ARMED FORCES. While all these regions spend all their money on social programs like healthcare and unlimited unemployment benefits and gutted their own armed forces.

I get the feeling that folks really don't know how big a trillion dollars is so here's an example. NBA Miami Heat player LeBron James gets paid about 40 million dollars a year. Now in order for him to make a trillion dollars on that salary he would have to pay basketball for 25,000 years. Yes 25,000 years, and the US govt is 14 trillion in the hole.

Yeah Dreadnaught's pissed and delivered a full broadside but I'm fed up with this hippy "let's just steal all the money from the rich and everything will be alright" BS.

Same goes for all other branches, with the Airforce's B-52s/F-22s/B-2s, and the Army's sheer size.

Ok Carnac show me where govt seizing money and giving it to the poor has worked? Europe has been doing it since the end of WW2 and look at the economic mess that's over there, Soviet Union collasped trying to do that. Finland? The Reindeer outnumber the Finnish and so does the population of my state of Florida. It may work on small scale but not large scale, look at EU and Soviet Union.

Gates and Branson use their money to employ people at the companies they have created those people get paid and then go out to buy stuff. Haven't seen a poor homeless unemployed person give someone a job and again when their govt seized money runs out the govt has to seize more money from someone else.

How much has Kenya been given in foreign aid since its independence? How many billions in foreign aid has been given to the third world countries and remained third world? I'll tell you this. When industry left the US and set up in these third world countries and now the unemployed were now employed they became less than third world. Look at India they are the third largest economy in the world not because of billions of dollars in foreign aid but by captialism. Hell they are the call center captial of the world but those folks who work at those call center have money in their pocket and go out and spent it.

You also need to get a clue about war. You don't go to war expecting a fair fight. You cheat, you win there's no such thing has a fair fight. Yeah I want the US to have weapons so powerful that there are no known defences for them and the will to use them because then no one will want to screw with us because they lag behind. I never want China to catch up to us. You want peace, you prepare for war. As for our defense budget compared to the rest of the world. Well we do have the largest GDP on the freakin planet so what you think is excessive defense spending is chump change to us (only 4% of our GDP is spent on defense). Maybe if the rest of the world govts stopped subsiding unemployment and piss poor health care they could spend a few bucks on their militaries they wouldn't feel so wimpy dicked compared to the US military

You believe govt will solve this economic mess? Last I checked they caused this mess and have put the whole world in so much debt that it will never be paid off. Everybody's in debt right now, that's why cash isn't flowing.

You want to hate on Gates and Branson? Hate on Bono and U2 has well. They just caught hell for moving their operations out of Ireland because they don't want to pay high income taxes. Singer Adele was just bitching about the high taxes she has to pay for the worthless govt services in England.

and stop with the "let's give 99% of the money to the 1% crap" it shows me that you're not a thinker.

As for large scale job creation, that quite possibly will be the single hardest thing to do, especially with the Unions. To be blunt, Unions are killing job creation. There's no way around it, they've grown from their initial creation that they wield vast amounts of power and can bend companies to their will if they operate here in the US, particularly companies with big manpower intensive factories. And they now fear losing that power. While they were needed in the beginning in securing decent working conditions and reasonable work hours & pay, they've grown greedy and demand far more than needed. $40 an hour, 30 days of paid vacation, plus paid sick leave, $2 for $1 401k, company stocks, etc, etc... And on top of that, Union only States, where only union workers can work particular jobs? Isn't that called a monopoly on the workforce? And then, AND THEN, demanding other workers who aren't in unions to pay union dues?.... I'm sorry, Unions just need to go. There's nothing left to say on them.

Here's a start. Disband the Dept of Energy and Education. Neither one were needed in the first place and have only made matters worse in their areas. Disband the IRS and install a flat tax. 15% max. If you only made 50 bucks last year you pay 7.50 in taxes, if you made 500,000 you pay 75,000 in taxes. So there all you liberal commie hippies there's your rich paying their fair share and the poor aren't getting screwed. CIA handles outside intell (includes spy sats) FBI handles inside federal law (includes drugs, guns, booze) INS/Customs handles border and immigration and disband the rest. Disband the Fed. Disband all unions.

Put term limits on every electable govt post from Congress down to local dog catcher. Lobbyist lose influence. Make white collar crime a major felony and send them to big boy prison and face hourly ass raping.

Put time limits on unemployment and welfare payments. They will be forced to look for work even if it means cleaning toliets or digging ditches. (I've done it and I'm college educated) Round up all illegals and deport them. Lock down the US Mexican border and you don't need a multi-billion dollar "smart wall". Three lines of razor wire with an anti-tank ditch and minefield in between and deploy ground sensors to detect tunnelling.

As for defense spending no more $800 hammers. Instead of trying to develop sci-fi wonder weapons that get canceled or take 15 to 20 years to deploy (The F-22 was started when Reagan was president) continue production of current weapons with tech upgrades. If South Korea's Slam Eagles and Israel's F-16 Sufas are good enough for them then the US Air Force Should have thousands of both (3 Slam Eagles or 5 Sufas for the price of one F-22)

@Carnac- "The Red Scare is over" I did say that the Soviet Union collasped did you miss that? But not over. You got commies itching to burn Athens to the ground. Commies trying to get the UN to force developed nations to give away billions to third world nations in the name of the farce called "global warming". Commies lying to the world that Israel is rounding up arab babies and doing a double tap to their heads in front of their mothers and commies in the White trying to bullshit me in saying the economy is getting better when I see food prices rising, college students thousands of dollars in tutition debt and no jobs for them and see stripmalls going from half empty to 3/4 empty and construction of others stopped.