Best trained, best equipped?

[Jake]

Okay, lets increase defense funding and build new factories and new equipment. I've been saying that for months.  To pay for it, chop off worthless trash like the Natl Endowment of the Arts, welfare, and federal education spending.  Problem solved.

[Jake]

Okay, lets increase defense funding and build new factories and new equipment. I've been saying that for months.  To pay for it, chop off worthless trash like the Natl Endowment of the Arts, welfare, and federal education spending.  Problem solved.

Repeal the Bush tax cuts, and the people needed to make tanks would help the unemployment rate drop.

Exactly what does this mean?  I will take it to mean repealing the tax cuts would create workers out of thin air.

Removing Federal education spending puts education where it should be, under the STATES.

Okay, lets increase defense funding and build new factories and new equipment. I've been saying that for months.  To pay for it, chop off worthless trash like the Natl Endowment of the Arts, welfare, and federal education spending.  Problem solved.

What is it with you and hating programs that help people?

Note, I agree with you on the Natl Endowment of the Arts, at least as long as Lynne Cheney is the chair.

Welfare is a waste. Refprm is needed. If we're going to have it, we have to closely regulate it.  If you are on welfare and can work, you have to seek a job and hold a job.  If you don't, there is a one strike policy, screw up once you're gone.

The NEA is a waste. Art isn't going to fail if the government doesn't fund it.  There are enough liberals who can throw their own money at it.

[Jake]

They were separate. If we open up tank making shops, more people can work. We may need to raise taxes to pay for the increased military spending.

How do you propose the states pay for it? It's the same cost, just shifted.

Shifted onto the individual states which means my taxes are going towards my states education instead of Hawaii's or New york's.  Ideally it would be run from the local level.

I agree reform is needed, but the way to fix welfare is to do everything we can to ensure people don't end up on welfare, by increasing the spending on education so they aren't ignorant and uncapable of working.

Education spending can stay where it is now, but if improvements aren't made after, say, ten years, then we evaluate whether private run schools are better.

I agree, if the art can't sell by itself, it shouldn't be out there. Would cutting the NEA eliminate the Smithsonians?

I think the Smithsonians are mainly run from the man's contributions, but if not again, there are rich folks who would pay millions to be listed as a private sponsor.