Latest Answers

Latest Answers http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/latest/%2A/11/%2A/%2A a view of answers sorted by date en That's a great question. I don't know the answer but I'd like to find out myself. That's a great question. The thing is he may have just been spewing poison and bitterness but it would be interesting to know what he had to say. If he had any remorse for all the people that had been killed and raped and maimed and tortured on his watch. But that would be a good question and I'll try to find that out. That's a good question. http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/%2526lt%3Bp%2526gt%3B%2526%2523039%3Bs-great-question.-i-don%2526%2523039%3Bt-know-answer-i%2526%2523039%3Bd-find-out-myself.-%2526%2523039%3Bs- http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/%2526lt%3Bp%2526gt%3B%2526%2523039%3Bs-great-question.-i-don%2526%2523039%3Bt-know-answer-i%2526%2523039%3Bd-find-out-myself.-%2526%2523039%3Bs-#comments Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:18:19 -0500 amukherjee 1544 at http://www.askyourlawmaker.org Well, to begin with the military spending as a percentage of the federal budget is less than it used to be. The biggest part of the federal spending is entitlement spending, that’s 60 percent and military spending represents about 15 percent. So I would think their question should have been: “Should we cut domestic spending in non-military accounts?” Since the first obligation of a federal government is to defend the country. Matt Laslo: But it seems like everyone is afraid of entitlements – do you see any political will…? Gregg: Well, we’re gonna have to face up to them because they are going to overwhelm our capacity to pay for them pretty soon.**NOTE***: Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) is the ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/%2526lt%3Bp%2526gt%3Bwell%2C-begin-military-spending-percentage-federal-budget-less-it-used-be.-biggest-pa Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:59:43 -0500 Matt Laslo 1403 at http://www.askyourlawmaker.org Well, which is really interesting, because you already have many non-citizens serving today. I believe the first soldier who died in Iraq was a non-citizen, someone that illegally immigrated to California, he was an orphan and then joined the Marines and died. I know that we have non-citizens from San Antonio that have died, because actually their funerals took place in Mexico. So you already have that going on to be honest with you. But, no, I don’t think that’s going to be one of these solutions- that if you want to come over here, you join our armed services. You join our armed services because of the love of our country and what it represents. That’s your only motivation, there is nothing back there- whether you are a citizen, non-citizen or whatever it is, you just have to genuinely believe and have that in your heart. We have incentives, which we understand. But this would not be something of a carrot that we would hold out and that way we would plus up our military. That’s not the way we do that. I understand what this particular individual is advocating, but it probably would not be workable. http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/well%2C-which-really-interesting%2C-because-you-already-have-many-non-citizens-serving-today.-i- Thu, 08 May 2008 14:05:27 -0500 Jodi Breisler 1279 at http://www.askyourlawmaker.org We desperately need to get funding to the military such that they don’t lose a step. Because they are succeeding in the goals laid down militarily, not politically, but that’s not their responsibility. – excuse me let me finish. So we don’t want them to lose a step, but clearly the future course of this operation in Iraq we have to revisit where the political structure is or is not. http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/we-desperately-need-get-funding-military-such-they-don%E2%80%99t-lose-step.-because-they-are-succeed Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:52:07 -0600 988 at http://www.askyourlawmaker.org I think most, a lot of elected officials are just simply afraid of the gun lobby. They've tried it before and nothing ever happens. I think they've given up. They've given up that we're ever going to have any meaningful firearms control at all in our country. They've just given up on it. http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/i-think-most%2C-lot-elected-officials-are-just-simply-afraid-gun-lobby.-they%2526%2523039%3Bve-tried-it- Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:48:39 -0600 Jodi Breisler 931 at http://www.askyourlawmaker.org We are not assimilating people who are coming here- even legal aliens- they are not assimilating into the culture, certainly illegals. We are not encouraging assimilation. We are dividing ourselves up. We are becoming a linguistic, a political, a cultural Tower of Babel. http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/we-are-not-assimilating-people-who-are-coming-here-even-legal-aliens-they-are-not-assimilati Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:04:56 -0600 896 at http://www.askyourlawmaker.org