It's the biggest budget the Pentagon has ever seen: $700 billion. That's far more in defense spending than America's two nearest competitors, China an

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The Chinese have already taken over operation of the Panama Canal. Built by America as strategic access to both the Pacific and Atlantic. The Russians have built a whole new technology of deep submersibles designed to cut off our fiber cable internet access to Europe. And tap into it.

We have nothing. Really, it's now a catch up game for us to keep parity,
 

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And I hate to say it, but the Chinese are probably the most or one of the most Zenophobic cultures in existence today. They always have been. There is no mercy here.
 

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Leaverite said:
The Chinese have already taken over operation of the Panama Canal. Built by America as strategic access to both the Pacific and Atlantic. The Russians have built a whole new technology of deep submersibles designed to cut off our fiber cable internet access to Europe. And tap into it.

We have nothing. Really, it's now a catch up game for us to keep parity,
That's what they want you to think.

The best way to control the masses is through fear.
 

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Leaverite said:
Here is a question.

Are you just going to cave in and go quietly???
Lulz.

It's not 1910. A bomb is a bomb. Standing and fighting isn't an option anymore. Which is why international relations matter. Which is why pulling out of world-wide trade agreements etc. and saying "China can have it" isn't smart. Which is why "America First" should mean more than "America only".
 

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BTW, if you want to know what's going to end the economic boom, it's rates rising more quickly than anticipated because of growing deficit spending and related inflation.

I think it's safe to say there is no political party in the US that is fiscally conservative anymore.
 

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Mr Doof said:
StuAzole said:
I think it's safe to say there is no political party in the US that is fiscally conservative anymore.
Libertarians?
Nah, they're just Republicans who want to smoke weed without repercussions and are looking for an excuse to not pay taxes and claim they want government to butt out of peoples lives yet they still want them to make reproductive decisions for women.
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