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Debate Score:38
Arguments:35
Total Votes:42
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should america increase its military spending

should america spend more money in order to increse military strength

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Side Score: 17
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no

Side Score: 21

Depends. Before or after we get the fuck out of countries we have no business being in?

Side: Hellno
Uspwns101(444) Disputed
0 points

Really, how about you post some type of argument about why we shouldn't increase spending, as the debate was created on, don't try to turn it into a different argument. I don't care what you think about anything except for what you have to say relative to the debate, your inane comment did nothing to prove any argument or further any type of debate. Is it really worth it to say something like that and come off as a troll.

Side: yes
2 points

"don't try to turn it into a different argument."

Why not? I see us bringing troops back to hold precedence over the question of spending.

"I don't care what you think about anything except for what you have to say relative to the debate,"

Anything relating to military action is relevant to the debate, besides I listed criteria to be met before I gave my official answer on the asked question.

"your inane comment did nothing to prove any argument or further any type of debate."

Then why waste time creating a response, therefor giving it value?

"Is it really worth it to say something like that and come off as a troll."

The only bigger idiot then a troll is the one who tries to comunicate with one.

Side: Hellno
1 point

I believe America should increase its military spending, butthe only way that happens is to get into a war...and I think we are in enough of those right now!

Side: yes

i agree btw i need to know are you christian and if so please help i am in a debate against three adults and im only 14

Side: yes
1 point

The answer to that problem isn't to appeal to authority for help, it is not get in arguments with adults.

Side: No
1 point

President Obama came into office with a military in serious need of modernization. However, instead of rebuilding our strength, President Obama has put us on course toward a “hollow” force. President Obama has repeatedly sought to slash funds for our fighting men and women, and over the next ten years nearly $1 trillion will be cut from the core defense budget. This budget cutting enterprise is proceeding while American troops are in combat in Afghanistan, returning from their mission in Iraq, and fighting the remnants of al Qaeda worldwide.

The Obama administration’s cuts have left us with a military inventory largely composed of weapons designed forty to fifty years ago. The average age of our tanker aircraft is 47 years, of strategic bombers 34 years. While the weapons in our arsenal remain formidable, they are well along on the path to obsolescence. Along with the aging process, there has been a precipitous decline in sheer numbers. The U.S. Navy has only 284 ships today, the lowest level since 1916. Given current trends, the number will decline, and the additional contemplated cuts will cause it to decline even further. Our naval planners indicate we need 328 ships to fulfill the Navy’s role of global presence and power projection in defense of American security. Our Air Force, which had 82 fighter squadrons at the end of the Cold War, has been reduced to 39 today. President Obama has cut funding for national missile defense.

The Obama administration is seeking to reap a “peace dividend” when we are not at peace and when the dangers to our security are mounting. This flies directly in the face of conclusions from the bipartisan Perry-Hadley Commission set up by Congress in 2010. Even before Congress had adopted its latest round of cuts and even before President Obama had proposed yet deeper cuts, the Commission warned that: “[t]he aging of the inventories and equipment used by the services, the decline in the size of the Navy, escalating personnel entitlements, overhead and procurement costs, and the growing stress on the force means that a train wreck is coming in the areas of personnel, acquisition, and force structure.” There is a price to strength, but a greater price to weakness, because weakness tempts aggression.

An additional factor must be considered. The men and women of America’s military are among the finest who have ever served any nation at any time. They are all volunteers; they have all chosen to dedicate their careers in the service of their country. Many have spent more time in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last ten years than they have spent at home. Thousands of them went overseas and will never come home. They have willingly chosen this path of sacrifice. It is unconscionable that these men and women must fly in airplanes that are old and unreliable, must sail in ships that have cracked hulls, or must ride in vehicles that are urgently in need of replacement — all because their government has had neither the vision to plan for their needs or the simple common sense to manage its own budget.

Side: yes
2 points

I truly cannot envision many individuals endorsing the opposing view. Military spending is a great waste of money and an extreme burden on the taxpayer. Hundreds of billions of dollars are wasted on the military, which does little besides make war-loving fools of the American people as they lose war after war and become involved deeper in the affairs of other nations which do not concern us.

Bring the troops home and stop (a) wasting money needlessly on the military, (b) giving money needlessly to foreign governments, and (c) taxing the good people of the United States of America more than they deserve.

Side: No
1 point

what about jobs for soldiers there are none or are you a obama job supporter

Side: yes
Liber(1730) Disputed
1 point

Jobs for soldiers? They shouldn't have been soldiering in the first place! Let them find their own jobs on their own time and stop wasting taxpayer money.

Side: No

The USA has the most powerful military in the world.

We're in an economic crisis.

Sad economy - some military spending = happier economy

Side: No
1 point

I don't think we should be increasing spending on anything except for that which can be shown to lower unemployment and increase economic activity.

Side: No
1 point

shown to lower unemployment and increase economic activity.

I know precisely how to do this! Abolish the minimum wage! It's perfect. Countless more businesses shall be able to hire more people. More people will work. More people working = decreased unemployment rates and increased economic activity, especially considering that decrease in social programs directed at the unemployed. Taxes could be reduced to accommodate for the lesser reliance on socialism (not that it wouldn't be diverted elsewhere), and more people will gain.

Side: No
1 point

please explain im only 14 but are you saying the nation should allow cheap labor and essentially become a place like china

Side: yes

Military spending should be cut as should all government spending.

Side: No
1 point

really how about the fact that china is catching up to us in military

Side: yes
1 point

That is really irrelevant because why would two countries who gain both economically in trade go to war?

Side: No
1 point

All government spending needs to be cut including military. I don't think we have to shrink the military or sacrifice our superior technology though... there is plenty of waste that goes on.

Side: No
1 point

We spend more on our military than every other nation on earth combined. We have enough nukes to kill every living thing on earth that doesn't have an exoskeleton ten times over - you would think killing everything once would be enough.

If we took half of that money out of the military and spent it instead on things like high speed railroads, new roads and bridges, etc, we would create 10 times more jobs than we employ in our entire military and again have the greatest infrastructure in the world (we don't anymore, our infrastructure is horrible compared to every other first world country).

Side: No

Use that money toward Education. America needs to have a better educated society.

Side: no