Alan Grayson's BRILLIANT Way To Save $2 Trillion

[kpete]

WED JUL 20, 2011 AT 01:28 PM PDT
How to Save $2 Trillion
byAlan Grayson

I have an idea about how to do that. It's a very simple idea. In fact, I can sum it up in one word, with five letters:

PEACE.

Now, I know that peace may not be as popular as it used to be. The polling is very iffy. The focus groups are mixed. But let's look at the facts.

The Rest!!!!!!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/20/996695/-How-to-Save-$2-Trillion?via=siderec





let me second that!!!

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Hear, hear!

[GreenTea]

60. Cheers to Alan Grayson!

[vanbean]

78. Yes, cheers, Green Tea, All he is saying, is give peace a chance.

[muntrv]

2. I received that e-mail from Grayson too.

[DearAbby]

3. Amen....n/t

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. He has it right.

Peace is the way to cut the budget.

Recommended.

[myrna minx]

5. Genius. K&R n/t

[Dappleganger]

6. Now he is a real democrat!!

Peace, what a unique concept!

[roguevalley]

68. I wish he were President. Think Harry Truman and FDR in outlook

and practice instead of Prezildent Carebear.

[Blue-Jay]

7. .

[OneGrassRoot]

8. K&R n/t

[AlbertCat]

Let's see....

Compassion is weakness

Cooperation is cowardice

and anything resembling Community is socialism.


Besides, if we stop all these wars, all those people will lose their jobs! And as you know, there's NOTHING that needs doing around here!






(do I need the :sarcasm: thingie?)

[OneGrassRoot]

35. That about sums it up...

;)

Using those words helps weed out those who are most definitely NOT of like mind...or like heart.

:hi:

[girl gone mad]

9. k & r

[enough]

10. Amen, again. (nt)

[AsahinaKimi]

11. But if we have no war..

Than the industrial military complex won't make a PROFIT this year! :sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm:

I agree. Time to Shut these bastards down by stopping the wars, and the war making machine. If you consider how much money was spent on all these wars, and how some of that could be fixing our own infrastructure, and aiding people with housing, food and the necessities... These Damn Republicans have had their way too long. They knew War was a profit making business.. time to shut this
all down.

[Initech]

12. Exactly - wars for profit,

It's not just the war on terror either - if we're gonna end the wars, we need to end everything and that includes the war on drugs.

[LiberalLovinLug]

59. Trouble is They set it up with a lot of cunning.

By not concentrating weapons manufacturing in a few States, but diversifying into almost every State, they made sure that the more war, the more employment around the whole country. A tragic catch 22. It means that almost every Washington congressperson or senator will have a hard time getting re-elected if they propose military spending cuts. If it only affected a few States they may be able to get away with absorbing the voter backlash.

[The Doctor.]

67. It's been tried.

Anyone who threatens to starve the warbeast winds up dead though.

[cal04]

13. Kick for this and Alan Grayson's post

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x615162

[Stuart G]

76. k and r

[Gregorian]

14. He's my man.

My sig line on DU has been the solution to our problems. Simple, and effective.

[BumRushDaShow]

15. K&R!!

:kick:

[kpete]

16. peace, oh glorious peace

[Lorien]

17. K & R!

[progressoid]

18. War is over, if you want it.

[awoke_in_2003]

19. it makes so much sense ...

that this country will never embrace it :(

[pacalo]

20. Yes! Cut the WARS!

[TheUnspeakable]

21. k&r-everyone sign his petition!

[Agony]

22. Make war profiteering illegal. Go Alan!

Hell make War illegal! Oh...wait... our wars already are illegal wars of aggression and collective punishment.

:(

[mopinko]

23. it is the profiteering that is killing the country.

wars too, of course. but the pentagon contractors rip us off all day, everyday, in war and in peace.

[DirkGently]

24. I can hear the D.C. chuckles from here. "Peace" is now a "radical lefty" idea.

[TygrBright]

38. psst.... No "now" about it. It always has been a radical lefty idea. n/t

[russspeakeasy]

25. The reason I like the guy...it doesn't take him 45 minutes to tell

me his position.

[raouldukelives]

26. K&R

[Plucketeer]

27. WAY overdue

and WAY underrated! :kick:

[bullwinkle428]

28. So simple, even a teabagger could understand.

[FailureToCommunicate]

46. Love the sport-jacket!

Also, kinda looks like Jesus...

"Peace"?
WWJD?

[varelse]

29. K&R

[grahamhgreen]

30. But, the majority of Americans support that, both Democrat and Republican! Stop living in a fantasy!

[Liberal_Dog]

31. K & R

We need Alan Grayson back in Congress.

[ijiji]

37. Even Better...

...would be Alan Grayson challenging Obama for the Democratic nomination or running for president on a third party ticket. Even if he lost (which he most likely would), at a minimum he'd force Obama to move to the left and stop kowtowing to the Republicans and his misguided attempts to effect "bi-partisanship" at the expense of core Democratic values.

[libmom74]

47. +1

[jwirr]

32. Once again - thank you Alan Grayson.

[kestrel91316]

33. "Swords into plowshares", for the churchey folks who don't otherwise get it.

Of course the christofascists are into the whole Warrior Christ thing, so they won't listen.

[Enthusiast]

34. Peace?

Are you out of your mind? How could we have war if we have peace?

[ooglymoogly]

36. Absolutely perfect....I would add a sidebar to save another 4 trillion

TO BOLSTER THE DELUSIONALLY "TROUBLED" SS:

Eliminate the usurious and unfair cap on SS!

GRAYSON-SANDERS....SANDERS-GRAYSON....PRIMARY WRITE IN FOR PRESIDENT.

[xiamiam]

73. that is exactly what I'm going to do..nt

[Thav]

39. One thing that I think he could mention

Is that making the first $35k/$70k tax free would inject over $300 billion directly into the economy. The people most affected by this tax break are the people most likely to SPEND that money on goods and services. I'm sure producers would like a $300 billion bump in demand, which would lead to more jobs to meet that demand, which would mean more spending....

[newspeak]

40. can you imagine a full press massive FDR style jobs program

As we funneled money into NASA for the moon race, a similar race for green energy-alternative energy. Massive infrastructure projects and public transportation project-high speed rail.

By getting rid of the massive MIC, we could create alternative jobs to build our country up again. And, that would be more of an investment making for a healthy country and a healthy citizenry.

We don't need someone using a slogan like "hope and change" and doing the same thing--we need someone having a clear vision for the future and acting upon it-for the people, for mom and pop businesses, ethical corporations (the few). We don't need people attempting to control us by the use of fear tactics--my god, they've been doing it for over ten years-it's one catastrophe after another. Fear causes ones capacity to reason to diminish, just like the lemmings over the cliff.

We need someone with a bold, positive vision for the people-Grayson? Sanders? Kuccinich? Kennedy, Jr.?

[truedelphi]

54. Only after watching a show on Masterpiece Theatre.

As it chronicled the life of one Briton through the sixties, seventies and early eighties, did I realize that Margaret Thatcher also had as her slogans "Hope and Change."

The American public has been so played. Endlessly.

[polichick]

41. It's pretty pathetic when a president with a "D" after his name doesn't get something so simple...

But then it isn't a matter of getting it, is it? It's a matter of who gets rich.

[nineteen50]

42. Peace

 Pre-emptive PEACE now!

[nineteen50]

43. Peace

Preemptive Peace now!

[givemebackmycountry]

44. Now you know why my sig line looks like THIS...

He was my rep until Taliban Dan beat him out.
Funny thing, I have not heard a word from Daniel Webster since he got elected.
It's like he's invisible.
What a waste.

[gateley]

45. K&R - Grayson rocks. nt

[me b zola]

48. K&R

[midnight]

49. Yep.... Time to bring them home...

[Evoman]

50. Bwahaha...yeaah right. The US government is nothing but a front for the MIC.

Hear that sound?

That's the sound of a gun being cocked. It's the sound made when any politician challenges the MIC.

[FogerRox]

51. Kn R DUDE

[Blue Owl]

52. How sickening that millions in Africa are on the verge of starvation

While here we are throwing billions more than it would cost to feed them all, right into a bottomless hole that gives us NOTHING in return while causing death and destruction.

Fuck anyone who says we "need" to be in Afghanistan or Iraq.

[JackRiddler]

55. US war spending is one of the reasons there is a famine in Somalia.

The US armed and backed the Ethiopian invasion that chased the Islamic Courts out of Mogadishu, ending the most effective government Somalia has had in decades.

[Harmony Blue]

58. It is even more ironic that

the Christian Ethiopians would invade.

[xiamiam]

74. these policies fueled by greed are evil and obscene..nt

[Lifelong Protester]

53. My mantra for a while has been:

TAX THE RICH
END THE WARS
BLAME THE REPUBLICANS


I might even move END THE WARS to the top line.

[demigoddess]

56. I've been saying this for years!!! I lived through Vietnam era

and one thing I know is that war costs money and there always seems like a downturn and a recession afterwards. We need to stop the war and close some of our overseas bases that are hangovers from WWII and Korea. Stop embargoing Cuba and stop building half a trillion dollar embassies in Baghdad. That should get quite a savings right there.

[drokhole]

57. JFK's American University Address was one of the greatest calls for Peace in our time...

Text
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jfkamericanuniversityaddress.html

Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG2PwhT0TDc (Part 1)

[SteveM]

61. Profits are one motivation for war, but there is another...

the Unitary Presidency.

If my reading of this cryptic philosophy is in order, it holds that we Americans have certain rights in the Constitution, but they can be negated by a national crisis. Who can declare a national crisis? Why the president. And what is a national crisis? Why war, of course. And we know how liberally-defined "war" has become: War on Terrorism, War on Drugs, etc. So, the requirement for the Unitary Presidency (which is nothing but straight-line authoritarianism) is to have SOME kind of war, to make this legal charade appear at least plausible. This is why our country must maintain a state of PermaWar.

We can certainly oppose PermaWar, just as some of us oppose the War on Drugs. But we need to get beyond the crass economic determinism that underwrites (and kills off) so much discussion and renders an atmosphere of worldly cynicism and defeat. I find it ironic that even some on the Teabag Right have come to question our wars. Certainly, MSM is not covering war protests much, but opposition to PermaWar has begun to broaden.

Sooner or later, we in the conjured remnants of the "left" will have to talk with the Tea Party movement.

[sandyj999]

62. Amen n/t

[SaveAmerica]

63. Peace saves money and LIVES - it's brilliant!!! but unfortunately too easy for some to understand

[BrklynLiberal]

64. So brilliant. so simple....The folks in DC will NEVER buy it.

[SaveAmerica]

65. Give peace a chance - it's easy if you try!!!

[paparush]

66. Can we clone Grayson, Sanders, Kucinich, and a few others and form a govt that represents

THE PEOPLE

[baldguy]

69. End the Bush wars & cutting defense has consistant majority support poll after poll.

This one thing proves beyond a doubt that the GOP and the "Tea Party" are not serious and they are not populist.

[coffeenap]

70. Peace.

I love Alan Grayson.

[MrMickeysMom]

71. Ever hear of a PEACE DIVIDEND?

Not the phony ass peace dividend as described by poppy Bush I, which was nothing but a lie.... not that...

But, really, can we count the dividend of defusing the military industrial complex? Do we really need a Black Op Budget?

So many people blew off Dennis Kucinich's "Dept of Peace", but isn't that what Grayson is talking about?

I'll sign up for those dividends.... So, K&R!

[alp227]

72. As Thom Hartmann mentioned this week Eisenhower campaigned on peace platform

that was back in the 1950s after WWII and the Korean War, and Eisenhower was a Republican...and in the decade before the likes of Birchers and Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan took over the party. In contrast, George McGovern (Democrat) lost in 1972 on his anti-war platform. And very few in modern establishment Washington want to talk about peace...that's why there's an entire party devoted to that idea (Peace and Freedom!)

[Stuart G]

75. Not a bad idea...I note that it has been recommended by a few, namely:

in no certain order...

Buddha
Jesus
Moses
Mohammed
Confuccius
Gandhi
Martin Luther King Jr
Mike Mansfield
George Mc Govern
Sanders

and many others..............................Please add any name you want..thanks..

[MissDeeds]

77. But there are still so many countries we have to invade

and so many people we have to kill. Welcome to the new world order.

Grayson gets it. I wish the WH did.

K&R