AngryOldGuy
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No! With what we already spend on the defence budget every year,I will go for that if you go for an increase in taxes to compensate for each war/slash military action we get into.
I'm surprised more people haven't voted yes. Columbus was a horrible, horrible person and it's shameful we celebrate him.
I will go for that if you go for an increase in taxes to compensate for each war/slash military action we get into.
why? I already pay more taxes a month than most pay in several years. Its you lefties who push for more and more spending not me. I want to cut the military budget in terms of overseas involvements. The "war on poverty" has cost us far far more than say the Afghanistan episodes
My supposition is that if Americans will have to immediately pay for war via taxes - their politicians will look closer at "evidence" that leads us to war. If we were required to pay for Iraq at the time - do you think we would have gone to war?
I do not mind paying more if there is a real threat. But I want a good faith effort in deciding what a real threat is.
the same could be true as to social welfare spending. War is a constitutionally sound power of congress-income redistribution really is not
Not talking constitution.
Lots of things that are constitutionally sound are crap.
I am talking that if politicians have to vote to go to war and they know that we will pay ON THEIR WATCH, they will make sure that their information and conclusions are solid.
I do not mind paying for real threat, do you?
I love how some people on this thread pretend the arrival of Western Civilization - which caused the deaths of millions and enslavement of millions more is somehow something that is worthy of celebration but the guy who started it all is the bad guy. In the history of the Americas, Columbus' arrival was probably the least morally revolting part.
Yeah, he was from Spain, so IMO he really doesn't represent our country anyway.
what nationality was Washington before USA was founded ?
In those days, the entire world behaved in such a manner. Please, before chiding the US about Columbus, get the Euros to abandon their Kings whom all did worse things. And don't even get started about the backwards hellhole that the ME or Asia was back then.
Go back a few hundred years, and everyone looks like a monster. Such was the world. The idea behind celebrations is to find the positive things.
Bloody land grabbing in the ancient world does not constitute genocide. What Turkey did, in the modern world, does.
l approved your previous post with my response to chris but you always need to insult my country
what nationality was Washington before USA was founded ?
George Washington was of English descent. What you fail to understand Medusa is that most [B]people who reside in America today are the descendants of immigrants[/B]. Very very FEW people can claim ancestry to the original colonists.
l really know much about it
thats why washington was american too
agree ?
I don't think you do know much about it. The only people who are really Americans are native Americans. Most of us white Americans are of European descent. America is a melting pot of different cultures and ethnicities. For example, I am Irish, Italian, English, Welch, Polish, Canadian Indian.
Canadian? Yikes.
Lol! Not "Canadian." Some kind of Canadian Indian. I really can't remember the tribe name.
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