Trump plans to divert $7.2 billion from Pentagon for border wall construction: report

[Zippyjuan]

Is this really diverting funds? What kind of monkey argument is this? Securing the border is the role of the government and the military

On the original amounts, Congress specified that none of the money was to be for the wall- it was not just general Defense spending. That is why Rand is against it. Congress gets to decide how much money to spend on what- not the President.

 

[Swordsmyth]

On the original amounts, Congress specified that none of the money was to be for the wall- it was not just general Defense spending. That is why Rand is against it. Congress gets to decide how much money to spend on what- not the President.

Then Congress needs to revoke the standing permission to the President to divert the funds that they gave him.

 

[nikcers]

On the original amounts, Congress specified that none of the money was to be for the wall- it was not just general Defense spending. That is why Rand is against it. Congress gets to decide how much money to spend on what- not the President.

Its sort of the presidents job to command the armies and defend the country though. Congress is the purse and legislative branch.

 

[Working Poor]

The pentagon needs it's spending curbed. So does the medical industrial complex.

 

[RJB]

Good. It almost sounds like a platitude, but a country's defense should be of its own borders, not the Syrian/Iraqi/Iranian borders.

 

[nikcers]

The pentagon needs it's spending curbed. So does the medical industrial complex.

Medicine and education is a big one that has a lot of waste but we probably should increase military spending. One way to have a volunteer army instead of a draft is to pay more. That makes it to where people with lots of money are still contributing significantly too because they pay the most tax.

 

[Aratus]

Would you also be fine with a President Clinton diverting funds to pay for say a national healthcare program?

Zippy made a comment. It was a total miss however.

YES and NO. Lets do assume poor Hillary did not have that bad but brief bout of the winter flu & that she did
McKinley handshakes to half the voters in the state of Michigan in 2016 and two or three more states like that.
POTUS H.R CLINTON could have gotten herself impeached by Paul Ryan had she done a slew of "creative" lil
sly gestures like that, all for the good of the country. Run rings around Congress. Kept Congress out of the loop.

 

[The Rebel Poet]

Medicine and education is a big one that has a lot of waste but we probably should increase military spending. One way to have a volunteer army instead of a draft is to pay more. That makes it to where people with lots of money are still contributing significantly too because they pay the most tax.