i was referring to "saved billions of cuts for the poor, elderly and the environment", something that we just didnt do
the cuts in the military have been so bad, i think many people here remember the "binocular scandal" where german soldiers in afghanistan had to order binoculars in an online shop with their own money

i can fully imagine spending an extra 20-30 billion for defense, we could easily afford it
of course, if we could finally stop wasting money for leftist utopia bullshit

lol.. That means spending on the elderly, the poor and the environment. What are you trying to accomplish here ?
(Apart from pointing out Afghanistan was a waste of NATO resources to help out the US.. )




agreed

This post was edited by Knaapie on Mar 30 2017 08:41am

no, it does not mean that
we have elderly people with pensions so low that they need to visit charity organisations for a hot meal, meanwhile we spend dozends of billions for illegal migration

perhaps i wasnt clear enough, our current defense spendings are not enough to meet the basic needs of our army
as i said, there is not enough for personal equipment, just a portion of our planes, helicopters and tanks is actually ready to operate
its a huge mess

one way or another our army needs extra money or it will disintegrate

I do somewhat agree on the army, it's in a bad shape. I'm happy it got cut hard in the crisis, to not cut too much on my left-wing utopia. We have more room now, let's slowly and intelligently increase its capabilities.

But what we spend on immigration is a small portion of what we spend on integration of our youth into the working force of our country, through education and benefits from birth. Somehow that doesn't seem to matter to people.
In the mean time our population is aging, and pensions for the elderly are becoming too expensive in their current form. Without immigration we're gonna need massive reforms to slim down pensions for when we are too old to work.
And while we work, we'll double the pension/worker ratio in our demographics, leaving less room for our welfare state.

This post was edited by Knaapie on Mar 30 2017 11:57am

Donald J. Trump‏

5 hours ago

The failing @nytimes has disgraced the media world. Gotten me wrong for two solid years. Change libel laws?

the decisive point is: to sustain our workforce and pay for the pensioneers, we need qualified migration. we need immigrants who are able to find work in our high-qualification job market and who are able and willing to integrate into our society and live by our rules.

allowing immigration into our social security systems is not a solution for demographic challenge, its making things worse. allowing people that are culturally imcompatible and/or will live off of taxpayers money doesnt solve any problems, it will only add to the existing problems and make them even worse.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Mar 30 2017 01:58pm

this

1 million asian migrants would have helped us big time, this lot however.....problems will increase exponentially from this point



you wont find me disagreeing, however in the current age i believe that a decreasing population is not necessarily a bad thing
as things are developing the need for workers will go down in the future so i would rather counter the effects of demographics with technology

I said nearly a year ago that Trump was anti-Constitutional and anti-Free Speech. Of course as usual everyone said I was a conspiracy theorist or irrational Trump hater. Surprise.

well trump has said shit about libel with the press the entire time on and off so there isn't much conspiracy there

Hey tell that to my critics

The difference is the Trump goons think what the NY Times prints is genuine libel

This post was edited by Voyaging on Mar 30 2017 05:54pm