Trump, Mattis Hail Spending Bill to Fund Strongest Military Ever

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WASHINGTON, March 23, 2018 —

The $1.3 trillion spending bill President Donald J. Trump signed today includes the largest military budget in history, reversing years of decline and unpredictable funding, Defense Secretary James N. Mattis said at the White House.

“Together, we are going to make our military stronger than ever,” Mattis said in a news conference today, flanked by Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Commerce Secretary Wilbur L. Ross, and Department of Homeland Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.

“We in the military are humbled and grateful to the American people for their sacrifices on behalf of this funding,” Mattis said. “Now it's our responsibility in the military to spend every dollar wisely in order to keep the trust and the confidence of the American people and the Congress.”

Trump hailed the spending measure, saying it funds the strongest military in the world, as well as troop increases and the largest pay raise in more than a decade for service members.

Keeping America Safe

“My highest duty is to keep America safe. Nothing more important,” Trump said.

The spending bill also includes, Trump explained, funding for the “final fight in certain areas,” pointing to the liberation of nearly all of the territory once held by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

The bill, which Congress passed hours earlier, funds the government for fiscal year 2018 and includes $700 billion for defense spending.

Trump said that defense funding contained in the bill is an increase of more than $60 billion from last year. It funds the addition of critically needed ships, planes, helicopters, tanks and submarines, he pointed out.

“Our military is very depleted, but it's rapidly getting better. And in a short period of time it will be stronger than it has ever been,” Trump said.

https://www.defense.gov/News/Articl...pending-bill-to-fund-strongest-military-ever/

 

[Nan Yang]

Even less money for infrastructure

 

[gambit]

Even less money for infrastructure

Jealous?

 

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[F-22Raptor]

You do realize the homeless rate is higher in Germany than the US right?

The vast majority of homeless in America are drug and alcohol addicts or people that can't keep employment due to mental health disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar, and PTSD. An some are just incredibly lazy. I was serving lunch to the homeless in my city several years ago, and one homeless man told me he wasn't going to work unless he made $100K a year.

You have to be in terrible shape to actually be homeless in this country.

 

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You do realize the homeless rate is higher in Germany than the US right?

The vast majority of homeless in America are drug and alcohol addicts or people that can't keep employment due to mental health disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar, and PTSD. An some are just incredibly lazy. I was serving lunch to the homeless in my city several years ago, and one homeless man told me he wasn't going to work unless he made $100K a year.

You have to be in terrible shape to actually be homeless in this country.

Homeless rate in Germany is higher?

 

[F-22Raptor]

Homeless rate in Germany is higher?

Figures released on Tuesday by Germany's federal working group for homeless persons' assistance (BAG) point to a shrinking supply of affordable and social housing, coupled with the government's decision to allow to almost one million refugees to enter Germany in 2015, as reasons for the country's exponential rise in the number of homeless.

According to federal statistics for 2016, 440,000 of the country's 860,000 homeless people were refugees. However, BAG stressed that its data does not show hundreds of thousands of refugees living on the streets, since it also took refugees living in communal housing and shelters into account. Officials said they chose to include these refugees in their latest census as they are also in need of housing.

BAG managing director Thomas Specht stressed that "while immigration has dramatically aggravated the overall situation, but it is by no means the sole cause of the new housing shortage." The main cause, he said, was misguided government housing policy.

Germany's homeless data by the numbers:

· Of Germany's 860,000 homeless, 440,000 are refugees.

· Excluding refugees, of the 420,000 remaining homeless people, 52,000 live on the streets.

That amounts to a 33 percent rise in just two years.

· Some 130,000 people are thought to be living with partners or children.

· Excluding refugees, 32,000, or eight percent, of homeless people in Germany are thought to be children or minors.

Federal government's social housing failure

According to Specht, the number of social housing units has fallen across Germany by around 60 percent since 1990 to just 1.2 million, as communes, states authorities and the federal government continue to sell their stock of housing to private investors. "These policies have made affordable housing inaccessible for many," Specht said.

A lack of housing has in turn led to a sharp hike in rental prices, with one-to-two room apartments in conurbations seeing the steepest rise. To put the issue into context, Germany has an estimated 17 million single-person households, although last year only saw 5.2 million one-to-two room apartments available on the market.

Following the latest homeless statistics, BAG managing director Werena Rosenke called on the federal government and municipal authorities to take greater responsibility in future housing policy. This would, she said, include the introduction of quotas for letting subsidized apartments to homeless people and "the acquisition of available housing stock from private landlords and businesses."

http://www.dw.com/en/germany-150-percent-rise-in-number-of-homeless-since-2014/a-41376766

Germany's homeless comes out to around 1% of your population, while the US is not even a quarter of 1%.

 

[Götterdämmerung]

Figures released on Tuesday by Germany's federal working group for homeless persons' assistance (BAG) point to a shrinking supply of affordable and social housing, coupled with the government's decision to allow to almost one million refugees to enter Germany in 2015, as reasons for the country's exponential rise in the number of homeless.

According to federal statistics for 2016, 440,000 of the country's 860,000 homeless people were refugees. However, BAG stressed that its data does not show hundreds of thousands of refugees living on the streets, since it also took refugees living in communal housing and shelters into account. Officials said they chose to include these refugees in their latest census as they are also in need of housing.

BAG managing director Thomas Specht stressed that "while immigration has dramatically aggravated the overall situation, but it is by no means the sole cause of the new housing shortage." The main cause, he said, was misguided government housing policy.

Germany's homeless data by the numbers:

· Of Germany's 860,000 homeless, 440,000 are refugees.

· Excluding refugees, of the 420,000 remaining homeless people, 52,000 live on the streets.

That amounts to a 33 percent rise in just two years.

· Some 130,000 people are thought to be living with partners or children.

· Excluding refugees, 32,000, or eight percent, of homeless people in Germany are thought to be children or minors.

Federal government's social housing failure

According to Specht, the number of social housing units has fallen across Germany by around 60 percent since 1990 to just 1.2 million, as communes, states authorities and the federal government continue to sell their stock of housing to private investors. "These policies have made affordable housing inaccessible for many," Specht said.

A lack of housing has in turn led to a sharp hike in rental prices, with one-to-two room apartments in conurbations seeing the steepest rise. To put the issue into context, Germany has an estimated 17 million single-person households, although last year only saw 5.2 million one-to-two room apartments available on the market.

Following the latest homeless statistics, BAG managing director Werena Rosenke called on the federal government and municipal authorities to take greater responsibility in future housing policy. This would, she said, include the introduction of quotas for letting subsidized apartments to homeless people and "the acquisition of available housing stock from private landlords and businesses."

http://www.dw.com/en/germany-150-percent-rise-in-number-of-homeless-since-2014/a-41376766

Germany's homeless comes out to around 1% of your population, while the US is not even a quarter of 1%.

How is 420,000 out of 82 Mio even 1%? Vedic math?

Even the 420,000, though not "refugees, are mostly migrants from Eastern Europe, practically all of them are Sinti and Romani.

 

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How is 420,000 out of 82 Mio even 1%? Vedic math?

Even the 420,000, though not "refugees, are mostly migrants from Eastern Europe, practically all of them are Sinti and Romani.

It clearly says there are 860,000 homeless in Germany. Who cares where their from if their homeless on German streets? Even if you don't count the refugees your homeless rate is still higher than the US.

 

[jamal18]

If they can't achieve what they want with what they've got, perhaps they want too much?

 

[Götterdämmerung]

It clearly says there are 860,000 homeless in Germany. Who cares where their from if their homeless on German streets? Even if you don't count the refugees your homeless rate is still higher than the US.

But the absolute majority of them are non-German citizens without rights of abode. Since we have open borders, do you expect us to give home for all illegal migrants and the next 100 million migrants who would like to migrate to us?

Even if there were that many homeless people, how come there are no tent cities and slums in Germany at all?

Here is an article in German which states that the majority of homeless people are migrants form Eastern European countries and that there was a sudden jump of homelessness in 2016, the year when we had the hordes of "refugees" flooding us.

http://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zei...hnungslosigkeit-obdachlose-fluechtlinge-armut