(12-21-2024, 09:52 PM)NotJoeBiden Wrote:(12-21-2024, 06:11 PM)Ares Wrote: With the size of China's navy now exceeding ours, we need the submarines.
Ya, cause they have hundreds more patrol vessels, not because they have actual war ships.
Where is the fiscal conservatism? I thought we were trying to stop unnecessary spending?
Drones can do a lot of damage too and we still have more VLS missiles but China is rapidly closing that gap.
What I want to cut is massive but it does not include weakening the U.S. militarily. With that being said I am all for reducing waste with military spending but canceling strategic assets is not one of them.
If Taiwan falls to China, everything is going to get a lot more expensive, real fast, estimates show a 10% loss of global GDP.
The only thing that stops foreign aggression is being a lot bigger and more capable than the aggressor.
(12-21-2024, 09:52 PM)NotJoeBiden Wrote: It is just cope. All Musk managed to do was stir up confusion and cut the aforementioned as well as things like children’s cancer research. It did practically nothing to reduce the budget.
Musk won in everyway imaginable. Just 118 pages down from a 1,547 pages is a huge win all night long.