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| Liz Warren Sez More Americans Should Serve in Military, Supports Military Budget Cuts |
| 2019-11-21 |
| [Free Beacon] Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) on Wednesday called for more Americans to serve in the military despite her support for military budget cuts. Asked if the percentage of Americans serving in the military should be higher during the Democratic debate in Atlanta, Warren responded "yes." But the senator has promised to "take a sharp knife" to America's military budget as president, telling reporters in September, "if the question is, ’do I think we should cut the military budget,' the answer's yes." Although Warren eventually mentioned inducing more people to "serve in our federal lands to help rebuild our national forests," the bulk of her answer centered around her brother's deployment to Vietnam, which has featured heavily in the Massachusetts senator's stump speech. "I think the notion of shared service is important," Warren said. "It's how we help bring our nation together ... It's also about how families share that sacrifice." "I remember what it was like when I was a little girl," Warren continued. "My brother, my oldest brother who served five and a half years off and on in combat in Vietnam, what it was like for my mother every day to check the mailbox." Warren's Medicare for All proposal calls for $800 billion in revenue from cuts in military spending and commits to pulling out of "endless wars" in the Middle East. According to national security expert Giselle Donnelly, Warren's proposed spending cuts would be "crippling" for the nation's military and would "immediately handicap military readiness." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #15 ...the guy in Norway had a different approach. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-11-21 20:09 |
| #14 I wouldn't mind some system to get kids to join the Peace Corps and see the socialist third world dumps their teachers have put on a pedestal. Cancel one of those new fighters and we can send an entire generation to Africa to unlearn and remove the brainwashing that it's all the wests fault. In the long run our country will be better off. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2019-11-21 15:06 |
| #13 Be like the Mormons. Everybody serves the minimum then joins the reserves. College stipend, monthly 10% to |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2019-11-21 13:59 |
| #12 If she wants draftees so she can send them on dumbass, bloody misadventures overseas she can piss up a rope. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-11-21 13:51 |
| #11 Let's force more people in the military and cut their pay!!! BRILLIANT!!! Reality is only a fleeting kiss to the cheek with her, isn't it? |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2019-11-21 11:44 |
| #10 An "Indian" maiden, Red Herring, Played princess, and slick was her bearing! Deplorable bourgeois, Removing her rouge ("Whaaa?"), All thought misbegotten And fishy -- no, rotten! -- Her vision of socialist Chering. |
| Posted by: Pancho Snomp1274 2019-11-21 10:38 |
| #9 A cowgirl from out of Fort Worth Was drivin' her cattle up north But got in some jimson And woke up all crimson... Well, leastwise, one ten-twenty-fourth. |
| Posted by: Pancho Snomp1274 2019-11-21 10:30 |
| #8 they believe the citizenry exist to serve the state citiz what? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-11-21 08:49 |
| #7 Miss Warren like a lot of congresscritter have no understanding of the Constitution. She sits in the legislative branch whose powers defined by the Constitution reads - 16. To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; It's already on the books so to speak. The implementing authority is Title X USC §246. Militia: composition and classes (a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard. (b) The classes of the militia are— (1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and (2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia. That is what the 'Draft' is, the activation of the federal militia, aka selective service. Apparently, she doesn't mind the outright sexism of the disparate impact upon the Her kind however, want the return of cheap slave labor cause they believe the citizenry exist to serve the state like any color of the Left's 'isms. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-11-21 08:45 |
| #6 Is she talking about drafting people? The military hates having draftees, most of whom are unmotivated and not at all interested in serving. Besides, she seems to think that the military can be used like FDR's Civilian Conservation Corps. No, Liz, the purpose of the military is to kill people and break things. Everything else is secondary or tertiary to that. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2019-11-21 08:12 |
| #5 the notion of shared fify |
| Posted by: AlanC 2019-11-21 07:46 |
| #4 #2 - Early Snark O' The Day contender |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-11-21 07:15 |
| #3 "Lets start by forming special Antifa battalions to deal with domestic enemies"? I thought that was already taken care of by a lesser known and dubious part of Obamacare. Oh, wait .... |
| Posted by: gorb 2019-11-21 07:01 |
| #2 "I remember what it was like when I was a little girl," Warren continued. "My brother, my oldest brother who served five and a half years off and on in combat in Vietnam, what it was like for my mother every day to check the mailbox." ...Given Senator Warren's relationship with the truth, I must now question whether or not she was ever a little girl, whether or not she actually had a brother, or whether or not there is someplace called Vietnam. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2019-11-21 06:56 |
| #1 "Lets start by forming special Antifa battalions to deal with domestic enemies"? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-11-21 06:15 |