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Jul 27 2017 02:30am
The president says that transgenders are a "tremendous" expense on our military. In actuality our military spends more than 10x as much money on erectile dysfunction medications alone than it does on all transgender soldiers combined

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/2017/07/26/the-military-spends-more-on-giving-retirees-erections-than-on-transgender-troops/

Erecting Trump's new border wall would cost an estimated 2,620x to 8,250x more money to build, and another 17x more annually to maintain than what we spend on all transgender soldiers each year combined.

http://time.com/4745350/donald-trump-border-wall-cost-billions/


So what's the real reason we are banning transgenders from serving in the military?

This post was edited by TCassa89 on Jul 27 2017 02:30am
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Jul 27 2017 02:32am
They're icky.
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Jul 27 2017 02:35am
it's even worse:

Beyond the costs involved in soldiers' demands to change sex, the majority of US military projects over the past 20 years have been financial and technological fiascos.
All follow the same pattern. An explosion of costs, materials that do not work well and the decision to stop production after losing tens or even hundreds of billions in vain.
These include
The F-22s, work (very) badly, too expensive, stopped production.
The F-35s do not work, too expensive, reduced production, in re-evaluation.
The Destroyers Zumwalt, too expensive, stopped production, 3 copies including 2 under construction.
The LCS frigates, (which were not armed!), In re-evaluation.
The submarines class Seawolf, too expensive, stopped production, 3 copies. Replaced by the Virginia class.
Ford class aircraft carrier, works poorly, too expensive, a second in production.
The result is that the US military is on the way to becoming one of the oldest and least well armed. They use the old F-15, F-16 and F / A 18 and the old destroyers Arleight Burke, for lack of better.
Only 40% of Navy F / A-18s are able to fly. For the time being, they continue to produce airplanes so that they do not find themselves naked, but it is becoming ridiculous.




:rofl:

This post was edited by Saucisson6000 on Jul 27 2017 02:36am
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Jul 27 2017 02:51am
Funny thing, it turns out it's not even really a cost issue. It's a wall issue.

In fighting put their spending bill (contained funding for a bunch of campaign promises, including the wall) in jeopardy(they were afraid they didn't have enough votes) because one side wanted to defund these programs for transgender soldiers (they threatened to derail their own legislation if they didn't get rid of the gender reassignment surgery coverage because they said it was wasteful spending and the other side (moderate republicans) found it discriminatory and said no. So they went to mattis first and he said no, then they went to the white house and trump decided to ban transgenders outright instead of try to reach an agreement between his own party.

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Jul 27 2017 02:56am
Quote (TCassa89 @ Jul 27 2017 12:30am)
The president says that transgenders are a "tremendous" expense on our military. In actuality our military spends more than 10x as much money on erectile dysfunction medications alone than it does on all transgender soldiers combined

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/2017/07/26/the-military-spends-more-on-giving-retirees-erections-than-on-transgender-troops/

Erecting Trump's new border wall would cost an estimated 2,620x to 8,250x more money to build, and another 17x more annually to maintain than what we spend on all transgender soldiers each year combined.

http://time.com/4745350/donald-trump-border-wall-cost-billions/


So what's the real reason we are banning transgenders from serving in the military?


Think of it like a grocery store. You buy your meats, veggies, cereal, etc. Then you come across the gumball machine. A gumball is really inexpensive compared to the rest of your grocery budget, but it's an unnecessary expense. Save the quarter for something else.

At the end of the day, trans people use more medical resources per capita than non-trans people.
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Jul 27 2017 03:11am
Quote (thundercock @ Jul 27 2017 01:56am)
Think of it like a grocery store. You buy your meats, veggies, cereal, etc. Then you come across the gumball machine. A gumball is really inexpensive compared to the rest of your grocery budget, but it's an unnecessary expense. Save the quarter for something else.

At the end of the day, trans people use more medical resources per capita than non-trans people.


Or.. instead of kicking thousands of perfectly good soldiers (who already passed the physical requirements) out of our military, we could put the ED medication away.. that would save a lot more money AND wouldn't require kicking any volunteers out of our military.

That's of course IF money is really the issue..

This post was edited by TCassa89 on Jul 27 2017 03:24am
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Jul 27 2017 05:27am
Conservative answer: BUT MA FEELZ
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Jul 27 2017 06:02am
Donald tried his signature move on a young service woman recently and got a handful of something bigly. Now he's on the war path to get his manliness back.
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Jul 27 2017 06:03am
Quote (thundercock @ Jul 27 2017 04:56am)
Think of it like a grocery store. You buy your meats, veggies, cereal, etc. Then you come across the gumball machine. A gumball is really inexpensive compared to the rest of your grocery budget, but it's an unnecessary expense. Save the quarter for something else.

At the end of the day, trans people use more medical resources per capita than non-trans people.


Gender dysphoria treatment is as essential as any other mental illness treatment.

As the thread suggests, maybe we should kick out all the guys with ED instead. They're cucks who can't get boners anyway I'm sure their testosterone is too low to fight ;^)
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Jul 27 2017 07:25am
Quote (Skinned @ Jul 27 2017 06:27am)
Liberal answer: BUT MA FEELZ


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