youthathletics wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 3:19 pm
You are using CV-19 cash as an argument (assuming that is what you are implying) and major investments/replenishment in Military.
I am most certainly not. And this, of course, is the game you're going to get from Republicans for decades.
"All that spending was because of Covid". Buffalo Bagels. Trump passed four spending bills, totaling about $3.7 trillion in new spending. $700 Billion was for military. The rest? Bullcookies----handouts to flyover States to keep the lights on while voters don't notice so TrumpFans could pretend that the reason the economy was doing well was Trump. Nope. Borrowed money, handed out to States. That's what did it. Cut spending for two years, and watch what happens to flyover America.
youthathletics wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 3:19 pm
I believe you are also setting up a circular argument b/c we both believe Trump leans D and has caved to their spending
Nope. It's not "their spending". That's the Republican game. Any spending that isn't military is blamed on the Dems....and this asinine game works, of course. Because $3 Trillion in new spending doesn't flood into Republican States.
youthathletics wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 3:19 pm
Military spending can never be enough. to include R&D, readiness, safety and personnel support.
Yep. But they don't want to pay for said spending.
youthathletics wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 3:19 pm
~ As noted earlier, Allow the states to run as close to private entities as possible.
That hasn't happened for 40 years. The game is: the Fed borrows money from the populated States, and sends it to the unpopulated States so that they can claim taxes are low....meanwhile, Federal spending is making up for the lack of State taxation. So for these States? Their ENTIRE economy is based on that Federal spending. So for example? Cut the ~half billion dollars they send to the University of Alabama, or the University of Michigan for "R&D"...and watch those Universities fall completely apart.
That demographic ship sailed in the 2000's. Half of Registered Republicans are ok with abortion, with reasonable limitations. Gallup put that number at 55% just last year, among registered Republicans.
youthathletics wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 3:19 pm
~ Believe that God was a guiding principle in our Constitution
I have no clue where this came from.
youthathletics wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 3:19 pm
~ Fiscally responsible as it relates to public/national safety issues
? I don't understand what this means.
youthathletics wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 3:19 pm
~ Not supportive of continual handouts/gaming the system.
And yet handouts have exploded. So has gaming the system. They've ENABLED MORE handouts every chance they have gotten. So this one is out, too.
So as far as I can tell? You think Republicans are for military spending, and that's it.