On Sun, 11 Oct 2015 11:19:16 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 10/11/15 10:23 AM, wrote:
On Sun, 11 Oct 2015 08:27:37 -0400, Keyser Söze
g infrastructure.


I will give you half of that. I agree some of the money could be spent
on infrastructure but you would be trading high tech jobs for blue
collar construction jobs.
We wouldn't need as much of that education you are talking about.
You don't need a bachelors degree to run a loader.


Education is a pursuit on its own...as we have discussed before, I think
there is far more use for education than learning a trade.


When you are coming out of a university with a $50,000-100,000 student
debt load, it certainly better be something that gets you a job.
I have no interest in spending tax money to teach things that are just
handy for coffee shop conversations about things that do not return
that investment to the people.


The Russians and the Chinese together are still spending on their
military only a small amount of what we spend. I'm not advocating that
we eliminate military spending, but I do think we should seriously cut
back on it each year until it is at a level that is no more than half of
what we currently spend.

Their philosophy is different. They are willing to spend blood more
than money. The US wants to have a war where no GIs are killed. That
is not cheap.

It's also absurd.

Granted but that is the US philosophy right now. We are spending about
a half a million dollars per combatant we kill, simply because we want
to use robot weapons manned by a guy who is safely ensconced in South
Dakota.