Quote Originally Posted by vetbass View Post
obama has mentioned raising capital gains back to clinton era levels in the past but has not aggressively pushed for it--and over the last few months has certainly not seriously mentioned do this--i no tea partiers will predict the end of the world if any tax for anything is raised but clinton raised taxes including capital gains to 28% for a while and then back to 20% if i remember correctly and the economy boomed and i doubt no tea partiers starved during this time
Whose military is this.....at the time it was the 3rd largest military in the world. Egypt, China, Iran, Russia, Iraq??

NO............it WAS the military cuts under the Clinton Administration......This 40% cut in military is a VERY DIRECT reason why a lot of stuff happened they way it did under the Bush Admin........

709,000 regular (active duty) personnel.

293,000 reserve troops.

eight standing army divisions!

20 air force and navy air wings with 2,000 combat aircraft

232 strategic bombers.

9 strategic ballistic missile submarines with 3,114 nuclear warheads on 232 missiles.

500 icbms with 1,950 warheads.

four aircraft carriers and 121 surface combat ships and submarines plus all the support bases, shipyards, and logistical assets needed to sustain such a naval force.