Congress Fights Automatic Defense Spending Cuts

Congress is trying to stop previously agreed on triggers that would result in large cuts to spending on the bloated US defense budget. The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur explains.

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[Saaduk92]

The name itself is a joke. It's attack spending.

[TheUSMetalhead]

The entire future of America is about war, this is the path the owners of this country have taken. Until we end lobbying, the two-party system, election laws, failed foreign policies and the absolute corporate takeover of Washington, nothing will change. Obama is a fraud and coward, the republicans are monsters, the democratic party is so corrupt it could only be fixed by recalling every one of them. We are fucked. We have to have a real revolution, and yes, this would include violence.

[BrantFortunate]

@TheUSMetalhead all of this is true, but you forgot to include ending religion as well.

[weejockpoopongmcplop]

Logically cutting defense would also involve job cuts.

[MyComicbookguy]

they laugh, they hate, they are insulting, but they are still funnier and better than the BBC!

[oreo0002]

@TheUSMetalhead So what happen after we take everyone out? Fresh blood, same system, what's the point? At this moment, I think the problem is that there is no perfect system. So before someone can propose of a better idea, the most that people can do is to live under a system that they hated the least.

[gethsoftware]

@TheUSMetalhead america shuld move towards parlamentar system.

[invaliduser1000]

Doest matter who you vote for ,you always end up with a politician

[m3talcorps3]

If Congress voted in legislation that cuts military spending then they must stick with it and not flip-flop. Plus, even with these cuts we will still have the world's largest military budget. Congress should send a message and be serious about cutting spending, but we can't especially because of the current Republicans in Congress.......

[gilbet]

Department of Defense spending is $1.2 trillion. There are only 535 members of Congress. Divide it out and there's a $2 billion budget for each member.

Now, all the Defense contractors need to do is donate 1% of that every other year to each member's re-election campaign. That's $20 million per member. They actually only need $2 million to win, so they can put the extra into Congressmen's favorite charities, run by them of course.

That's why they'll never cut "Defense" spending.

[IAMPontiusPilate]

@TheUSMetalhead Doing anything less than taking over The Capital, The White House, The Pentagon, The C.I.A., The F.B.I. and all of Washington D.C. with at least a hundred thousand armed men to hold it until the population could get behind that revolution and new vote aferwards. You would really need some of the C.I.A., The F.B.I., The Pentagon, and major city's police forces to join that revolution to make it truly successful. It would make a great movie!

[gekapat]

11% approval rating.... What is wrong with 11% of us?