Just days after committee chair Mac Thornberry (R – TX) announced his intention to unveil a $640 billion military spending bill, the House Armed Services Committee actually unveiled a $696.5 billion bill, which you’ll notice is quite a bit more, but which is also being presented as a “cut” from the previous announcement.
The imagined cut is based on the idea that the $640 billion would’ve added quite a bit of funding for Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO), and the new bill already includes $75 billion in OCO, which they’re presenting as meaning the bill is only $621.5 billion, despite the OCO money being very real, and also including substantial amounts that’ll be spent on things not related to overseas operations.
Either way, this is far above the $603 billion proposal offered by President Trump, which was itself such a big increase, before OCO was figured in, that he was bragging it proved he’s the “most pro-military.” This of course was followed by Congressmen condemning him for not making it even more irresponsibly large.
Padding to OCO budget with things not related to overseas operations has long been a way for Congress to circumvent budget caps, and present the military’s growth as smaller than it actually is. This bill very much continues that tradition, though it’s still very early going, and there will doubtless be more amendments tacked on raising the final dollar value even higher before all is said and done.
Paid for with dead Americans denied healthcare.
The U.S. government and its enforcement arm, the Pentagon, should be ashamed of themselves for borrowing the private bank notes and forcing Americans to pay back the banks who create these debt notes !! Turn the army against the banks and take this country back from the hell it is in !!
The US taxpayer is currently paying $1B every day just in interest on that national debt, The interest on it grows by $14,000 per SECOND.
And crunch time’s coming…. already 40% of the world’s GDP is trading among themselves in own currencies instead of USD – cutting deep into that uniquely American ability to “just print more.”
And no-one feels sorry for anyone who goes bang just because they couldn’t stop spending. So hard lines – tough times ahead for ‘Mericans.
pentagon misplaced $6.5 trillion tax payer dollars
taxpayer funded unaccountable govt employee & war contract labor unions
Healthcare for all — $3 trillion a year tax increase
Our lower-half of society is laboring-class, impoverished laboring-class so poor that little to no healthcare do they have. And as this has been going on since 1776 under working and living conditions the worst of any industrial nation, as their 50% fat diet and drug additions are the worst of any nation period, to give the impoverished lower-half the same healthcare enjoyed by the upper-half, this would require that the upper-half of society pay a tax increase of at least $3 trillion a year.
Just to provide for-profit healthcare to the 50% most wealthy now costs $3.5 trillion a year. To give non-profit Medicare to everyone, this would cost a total of $6.5 trillion a year.
Currently 20% of workers are employed in the healthcare industry, with Medicare for all we would have at least 30% of workers employed in healthcare.
Do you now see how government has been lying to us, promising a healthcare system that would bankrupt all of us?
“Currently 20% of workers are employed in the healthcare industry”
Actually it’s 9%. You seem to have a penchant for just making up numbers to support your “50% most wealthy” obsession.