Text 18030, 51 rader
Skriven 2011-05-03 14:35:00 av Gary Perkins (1711.fido_news)
  Kommentar till text 17967 av Björn Felten (2:203/2)
Ärende: Names will never hurt me.
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-=> Björn Felten wrote to Gary Perkins <=-

 GP> Besides, with the money and equipment we save, we'll be able to beef up
 GP> our defenses even more! ;) And, after all, we no longer have a War
 GP> Department, we have a Defense Department...

 BF>    Beef up? You no longer have a defence worth shit, something that was
 BF> painfully revealed in September 2001. There was ample time to intercept
 BF> and shoot down those planes -- even the first one -- but that didn't
 BF> happen. There were fighter planes launched and in the proximity, but
 BF> the high commanders made all the wrong decisions.

Exactly.

 BF>    Protecting the oil supply from foreign countries seems to be what
 BF> you guys pay for with your tax dollars nowadays. As you said, with all
 BF> those money spent on defence only, you'd still be one of the richest
 BF> countries in the world. Not like now: one of the most indebted, and
 BF> consequently poorest, countries in the world.

I agree.  I support my military only insofaras it's our citizen's asses
behind the guns.  I rarely agree with the orders that have been given
of late.  Recently I stated that I was happy Osama was killed.  I am,
only so that that chapter is behind us.  Maybe the nation can start
focusing domestically again.  If I had my way, the Libertarian party
might finally get enough elected officials in to start tearing down most
of these social and defense programs.  The individual states can handle
most of the social programs themselves.  I never saw the sense in taxing
the entire country, and then handing the money back to the states.  Nuts.

I'd like to see more money go into the Coast Guard and National Guard,
and less into these ultra-high tech machines.  Sure, we can use a few,
never know when another world war may come around and they'd be useful.
But why do we need to capability to take a small country in a few days
or a week?

 BF>    It's *your* children's and grand children's future that you've
 BF> embezzled just to keep your SUVs running (and your oil barons getting
 BF> richer) in the same old "American Way of Living". :(

Again, we're in agreement here.  I was fuming at the mouth in Obama's
first year of office.  I still don't know what the hell he was thinking.
I don't know why we let so much money leave the country.  Heck, I'm of
the mind that a lot of that money could be used to create local
production industry.  Help create a local toy industry, operating near
tax free, spread across each state.  That'll sure create jobs and spur
our economy.
 
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