Would you rather have a higher standard of living, lower taxes, or the world's best military?

Are you saying that you want us to cut national defense?

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That is 58% of our 2009 budget! You want us to spent billions on schools, roads, police and fire departments, health care for children and you call yourself an AMERICAN??

LOL

Sorry, teabaggers/republicans make me giggle.

It all goes together as we are accustomed to living it, however, since we are experiencing the

woes of those who think we can borrow our way out of debt instead of working our way out, this

standard of living can do little more than go down hill. A government plan to build the jobs market

would do more for the people and in turn bring back our standards of living to where it belongs. Instead of handing out one time stimulus checks, why not build up stimulus jobs? The government

brought us out of the Great Depression with ideas like the WPA or the Three C's...so, why not

consider variables of these ideas and apply them to the modern economical down turn...these

ideas worked at least once before, who is to say they won't work again?

IT is possible, it happens every time government gets out of the way.

Basically, lower taxes will unleash capitalism, which will raise the standard of living. The worlds' best military is a given, if congress would stop wasting money on social programs that fail epically, and do what the constitution tells them... fund the military, and protect the borders and national interests.

You slap a $1.00 tax per gallon of gasoline to fund your military operations. You cut corporate and capital gains taxes so you can compete for capital globally and so you can sell your goods and services worldwide at competitive prices. And you may have to institute a lock box federal sales tax to pay down the national debt. Then you reform the two public entitlements that control the country's destiny the most, i.e., Medicare and Social Security.

As for our standard of living, it will be determined by your skills and work ethic and how they are valued in the American and global marketplace. If you don't have the skills to earn a paycheck to finance a middle class lifestyle, it won't be because government is engaged in deficit spending and/or printing money at a level that guarantees rates of inflation that erode your purchasing power. It will be because you yourself can't earn enough money, or you spend more than you bring in. Your standard of living will be determined by your individual initiative and intelligence.

It is realistic for the American people to demand the conditions that will allow each and every one of us to succeed or fail on our own. And it can be done without sacrificing military preparedness and force capacity.

Take care. Have a great Rush free Tuesday!

For decades this IS what america was like... I dont think its unreasonable to demand the same.

But apparently its bad to have a strong military, since it might make other nations nervous.

And its not okay unless everyone has exactly the same living standards GIVEN to them.

And we cant afford to support everyone who's doing nothing or little unless the rest of us pay for it.

Ball park figures are:

300 million people in the US

100+ mil of them are under 18.

100+ mil of them are seniors.

50+mil of them are transient, in between groups, abroad, in service, or government employees.

50 million (minus 10%) are working to support the government, our families, our parents, the 10% not working, and those who cant or wont work.

Fair? According to Obama and the senate/house.

You can have all three but you have to give up all the government hand outs. Which is the best solution. If you give up the military it is only a matter of time before you lose the whole country to invaders.

Um.... I think back to when I was a kid, my dad used to ask me a question about life. He would ask me if there were 2 armies, 1 being the greatest military strength and the other being the greatest wisdom, it would always be better to take the wisdom because with the wisdom comes the intellectual capacity to wield strength, where as blind strength is always targeting irregular. Just look at Iraq and Afghanistan. Our military golden age died after we won against Korea.

That generation of soldiers is gone. Retired. They aren't coming back, and we are still making up lies as we go along. Except this time we can't afford them anymore.

Actually, they DO all go together.

We are already taxed well above the revenue optimum. Therefore:

> Lower tax rates means (as always) you have a better standard of living.

> Lower tax rates (because we're above the optimum) means MORE income to the Treasury.

As noted by others --- They are not mutually exclusive. The secret is control governmental spending along the intentions of the Founding Fathers.

standard of living for sustainable planet

tax rate commensurate to income and distributed with the above in mind

no need for a military

We had all of it in the 50's before all the social programs started.The church and private groups should help the less fortunate not the taxpayer.