DC Loc: Washington state

again what you say is true and I once again thankyou and your family for their service and sacrifice. One thing for sure you can not say anything about any party and have it represent everyone in that party. There are fine patriotic people in both parties and those who don't really care about this country in both parties. To your point when you served in vietnam There were plenty of Democrats who proudly served and when they came home they were met with scums who berated them for their service. Instead of generalizing and throwing everyone in the same pot it would be best for people of both parties to call out the bad apples in either party by name and call out the bad policies specifically. people like the govenor in our state Inslee and the new law that he is about to sighn that in the name of racial e******y lessons the penalty for drive by shootings. which means if you shoot someone outside a car you will be subject to someting like 22 years but if you do it while driving a care only something like 7 years. Bad policy supported buy a democate state government that are not moderate Democrats for sure.

nutz4fish Loc: Colchester, CT

Goodbye

Catfish hunter Loc: Riggins idaho (Paradise)

👋👋. Next time you ask me a question I’ll refrain from responding. Happy new year.

Frank romero Loc: Clovis, NM

Unfortunately it seems as if all the politicians are like this. They talk a good deal but it seems that there is nothing for them don’t want it. I was taught in grade school that government was supposed to be for the people by the people, now it by the politicians for the politicians. We had no business in Nam or the Middle East.

plumbob Loc: New Windsor Maryland

Exactly they v**e the party, not what the people want.

Sarl Loc: Cntrl. FL

Not sure how that opinion got started. Spending arises from House of Representatives, controlled by Dems. Dems. have v**ed and significantly increased military budget. President Bone Spurs diligently avoided military service and he is a Republican.

nutz4fish Loc: Colchester, CT

There will need to be continued robust increases in the Military expenditures, if we are to make up for such fiascos as abandonment of weaponry and other assets, supplying weapons to third parties who we think are fighting proxy wars in OUR interests, and to hold our own against the PRC. China's warship production is running at a breakneck rate, and it's critical to our future to match that. I believe we are not in a good position to outspend them into insolvency, as we did against the former USSR. Plus we will be challenged in low orbit supremacy soon.
Even if we decided to do so, we have largely abandoned our manufacturing capacity for the quick money that was harvested from Wall Street by the already wealthy segment of our society who sought out cheap labor and costs from beyond our shores. The lessons learned in the Second World War have been abandoned, and our so-called allies are still essentially freeloading. Lots of other reasons as well, including the need to replace our strategic fuel reserves : ( is this in the defense dept.'s budget ..Help! ) Upgrades to our defensive anti missile system, just to name a couple.
The worst thing to me, about all this is that the OPEC members, who were bailed out by US led coalition's forces have decided they are OK with sticking it to us, now that the immediate danger to their sovereignty is no longer present. Oh, the pain....
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I just went back to the beginning of this post. What happened, did I get caught up in a time warp ? Yesterday, I posted an answer to myself, and now this: I knew I was nutz, but this is really crazy!

audigger53 Loc: Severn, MD

OK, First My the "Fat Man" take a liking to all of you and your Families. I fully admit that there are Crazies and Crooks in both parties. Those in the middle have been beat on by both sides. I wish all could get along, but As the say "Peace on Earth, Good will towards Men". I wish for all here is "Take Care, All Be Safe and enjoy the Holidays with family and Friends".