(07-27-2017, 09:50 PM)Kotite Wrote:

(07-27-2017, 05:24 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: Are you trying to suggest that a bit more than 1% of the current military consists of transgender people?

I would love to see where you get the 15,500 number from.

http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp...y-2014.pdf

It doesn't matter if it was 150. This move is admittedly political in nature, took the joints chiefs by surprise and is equal parts an olive branch to the far right and a distraction from the mess of Trumpcare which is failing bigly.

Its no more an olive branch to the far right than Obamas initial move on his way out was an olive branch, or more like stone throw at incoming office, for the far left

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(07-27-2017, 05:10 PM)Kotite Wrote: Trump's golf excursions in the first 6 months in office far surpass the total costs associated with transgender medical costs for the 15,500 trans service men and women.

There are an estimated 1,320 to 6,630 trans service members
with like 40k per person if they transition and need medicine for transition.

where this 15k number keeps coming from I dunno...but that just increases the amount of spending.

And as I've said in other posts. Before people start spouting that popular "more is spent on Viagra" I would say that the government shouldn't cover that either.
I also don't think they should fully cover the costs of having children. (it is a choice to procreate, not some inherent right for the tax payers to cover)

The ridiculous amounts of government wasteful spending should stop. Every 8 million saved I'm all for.
Cut military spending. The budget is 50 billion... RIDICULOUS!
Cut Welfare spending....Medicaid spends $228 billion on the non-elderly population, 212 billion in cash like programs


For the record... I'm NOT OK with a sitting POTUS using up tax dollars to go golfing either. Whether its 1 mil per trip, or 3... or whatever numbers lefties like to throw out randomly.
I love being a Libertarian because I have no problem applauding any POTUS, left or right, when they do something good. And I have no problem calling them out for BS.

However... I know what can and can't be changed. I know every POTUS is gonna go golfing. I know they're gonna wastefully spend meeting this CEO or this country's leader... It is the nature of the beast. It is the system that everyone before me allowed to be set in place.

I focus my worries on policies. What policies are going to cost me more money (ACA, expanding programs like medicaid/medicare/social security that I won't get to use when I'm older), policies that have an effect on my family, declarations of war, etc.
I don't always agree with the POTUS but in this instance, I see nothing wrong with walking back something that has been in place like less than a year and was a stupid move by Obummer in the first place.

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