ericmay

Not really. At least not in the way that matters.

Thanks for sharing. I’ll take a look!

> The non partisan source is the history of the industrial revolution itself. I think that’s less of a factor of unions existing themselves and more so the public realizing the need for stronger la…

> Lots of research shows that generally places where unions exist have better work conditions and perform better over the long term. Do you have any non-partisan sources for this? Genuinely curious…

Sorry, I don't agree with you at all and continuing to argue about it just makes me more convinced the OP was right to point out those specific items. I'm not interested in complaints about …

Sounds like an excuse for anyone to justify their spending, ergo American debt-to-GDP ratio continues to increase

> Getting bogged down in line item spending is a trick politicians use to divide us. Politicians? You're sitting here arguing about the line item spending instead of just admitting we should c…

> * really cheap, making it possible to saturate target's defence Which is precisely the reason to attack now before this problem becomes much worse and then Iran adds in nuclear weapons too…

Again you can do both - you can cut these wasteful programs, you can have a well-funded government that's already well-funded with trillions of dollars, and then also reform healthcare all withou…

> I didn't do anything, that wasn't me. Ok you're defending it. > I don't claim anything, but if this isn't overspending then I think we agree to disagree. Ok if it'…

> It's funny you go within a single paragraph from You made a general, pedestrian claim about spending, I questioned your claim based on what you wrote. That's all. I wouldn't read i…

> No, snide and wrong is extremely different! Snide and wrong! You must be talking about the OP then and not me. > Social Security spending is already funded by a separate tax and currently runn…

"All organizations waste money, therefore organizations should keep wasting money and it's actually fine" doesn't sound very compelling to me.

> Most of that money is wasted on keeping the military industrial complex fat and happy, it's not going into soldier's pockets. And I say this being pro-US and indeed seeing the world as …

No you forgot the wasted spending on Social Security, Medicaid, and other subsidies! See, other people can throw in snide remarks too. There's room to debate military spending, but if you view th…

But they're still wastes of money, and based on the one-line description provided by the OP, they are rather absurd. A few others I can think of: Government insurance/funding for homes d…

You can be a drug and human trafficker and operate your boat when trafficking drugs and your van when trafficking people. Or you can have your drug traffickers under your command operate your boat whi…

Yea but all other countries would have to pay for the C02 emissions of their militaries too. I bet many would not be able to afford to have one anymore - might be a good thing.

You can traffic drugs on your boat and people on land. Who would have thought? Why are you over-indexing on whether the US allegedly killed people being trafficked? Why would that thought even come to…

I’ve always thought that was a decent idea but Americans can’t even stomach higher gas prices because of the Iran war. How are they going to handle $7-$8 per gallon or more?

Ok... but now we're damaging ecosystems by installing hydroelectric power stations and dams and such in these areas. Besides, not every country can effectively utilize hydroelectric power. German…

Sounds good. I hope you have a nice rest of your day

I really have no idea what you’re talking about. I don’t really hate anyone or anything except murderers and child molesters and such, those airplanes that fly around with big advertisements trailing …

No, people do need to be reminded. When all you do is talk about alleged bad actions by the West folks forget about the bad actions that precipitated this conflict and others. > You have the right …

Yes you’re out of the loop. No, that’s not what is being said. Hope that helps.

Sure, I think he should be in jail for January 6th and his claims about election fraud are stupid and incorrect. (Anti-democracy propaganda) But the full quote from me included anti-western propaganda…

Sure. Drug and human traffickers don't operate military boats? If another country wants to use its navy and sail to South America and spend money intercepting these folks to stop criminal behavio…

Sure, except the OP was not condemning each active warcrime as being independently abhorrent, they were only condemning Israeli warcrimes as being abhorrent. I was just independently reminding folks t…

I'm not following your point here. Americans are subject to propaganda? Yes so are every other country and people on the planet. And no, the election wasn't stolen.

I acknowledge it but too often it's the primary topic and I think it's of less importance. What are the facts and what policies and such are we pursuing? That's what is important. What …