What I find rather strange in the USA is that while republicans want to cut government spending, both parties seem to be ok with massive spending in military and security agencies/police. Or are there too many neocon in charge everywhere for it to change ?
Obama is actually reducing defense spending by a trillion dollars over the next 10 years, and instead of spending on foolish wars and whimsical weapon development will focus more of the budget towards healthcare benefits, job training, higher wages, etc for people actually serving in the military. Along with unrestricted drone warfare/spec ops of course. The Pentagon and Obama came up with this together, as the top generals of the country determined their budgetary needs.
Romney instead has declared that the Pentagon is wrong about our military, and has promised to raise spending by a trillion more, while also lowering taxes on millionaires and billionaires (and raising them on poors). You can guarantee this trillion will go straight to lobbyists, Israel, bloated and wasteful research projects, and probably an eventual invasion of Iran to appease Neocon Zionism. The money to pay for this will be deducted out of social security, food stamps, student aid, and literally taking away school lunches and doctor's visits for poor children. Example
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/05/08/480017/mccarthy-trimming-fat-poor/Basically, the Democrats are the ones who try to balance the budget, tend to avoid full invasion wars, keep a reasonable level of taxes on the super wealthy, reduce the national deficit, and keep unemployment down. Our military is still at a ridiculous level since the Cold War (Reagan
) and then "WAR ON TERROR IM GEORGE DUBYA FUCK U LOL" but Obama and our own military is helping take defense spending from 4.5% of our GPD to 3.
Republicans instead live in the "Real America" where their dicks only get hard from sending thousands of American soldiers to die killing brown people overseas while making black in spanishs and poors starve to death while slashing tax rates for themselves.
Also Ron Paul is really fucking embarrassing and no one should respect him. He was the head of a neo-chocolate chip cookie extreme racist newsletter for 20-30 years and is even more extreme in wanting poors and minorities to die of disease and starvation through legislation, while allowing corporations to trample the rights of basic human dignity than most Republicans, all the while banning abortion, gay marriage, and eliminating the separation of church and state. Much like all Libertarians.
Its really quite invalid to portray America's two major political parties as the same thing, even if Democrats are still too cozy with the finance and healthcare industries to enact the reform needed. Republicans are pretty much cartoon villain levels of evil at this point, with a platform designed to benefit former KKK members, millionares, and no one else. Its quite baffling that they've gotten so extreme. Almost comically they veto every single bipartisan effort to create jobs, they even refused to pass extended healthcare coverage to a couple thousand 9/11 first responders who were dying of cancer from the rescue effort, just because Obama is a socialist friend who they want to see fail.
Changing demographics (latinos not voting Republican because they are the anti-immigration pro-racism party) and a slow realization that the party is off the rails is starting to take root though, and many of us are praying the Republican party will fracture so the right wing lunatics get their own party (a tea party perhaps) that can be pushed out of the mainstream and stop poisoning the country. Or at least they return to center some more.
In case you don't get what I mean about literal unhinged insanity, here is Republican candidate for the Senate, Todd Akin, explaining his nuanced position on abortion and rape last month.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKa5CY-KOHcI imagine a lot of countries have similar political parties, but these guys are so powerful in America they do nothing but stop ANYTHING from happening in our legislature except lowing taxes on rich people, raising them on people in poverty, privatizing or eliminating every public service that you can think of, and have now even gone back to jim crow era voting restrictions against blacks and poors to stay in power as popular sentiment goes against them.
