Text 17412, 30 rader
Skriven 2011-04-25 16:49:45 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
  Kommentar till text 17410 av Bob Ackley (1:300/3)
Ärende: Re: What nature doesn't do to us... (was: Them damn French Warmonge)
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Bob,
 
BA>WD> Oh, but ..."Yes, We Can" ...
 
BA> Noted in another echo:  Hope and change - a trillion dollar deficit and
BA> 10+% unemployment.
 
1) Where does the deficit come from? You just don't rack it up in a meager
   few years ... it is a pre-existing condition;
2) The 10% unemployed ... is that with or without the artificially employed
   in the military?
 
The problem with today's armed forces is that they don't die in large enough
number.
 
In the 14-15th centuries kings assembled an army if they went to war, then had
a single battle where 75% of their troops were either killed or mortally
wounded (due to infection, wounds quite often were mortal) and didn't cost them
an extra penny anymore. These days you go to war, hardly anyone gets killed
anymore compared to the good old days ... and they keep drawing benefits until
they're 90.
 
If you go in the military, expect to get killed, not to make a living. In the
good old days, the money the mercenaries got kept his family alive for 2-3
years. Getting killed was their insurance policy.
 
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