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X ` Man[_3_]

On 8/8/12 1:31 PM, wrote:
On 8 Aug 2012 13:23:23 GMT, x'man wrote:

When you spend federal funds on military hardware you are socializing
defense contractors.

The difference is you can talk the American public into buying a new
fighter jet we don't need but they won't buy a refrigerator they don't
need.

It doesn't make any sense to me either.

In the sales business they say there are only 2 emotions, love and
fear. Fear is easier to sell.

Defense is selling based on fear,
You can say the same thing about the trillion dollar "terrorism"
boondoggle.

I completely agree.

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science-denying religious xenophobic corporate oligarchy of modern
Republican conservatism just doesn't work for me or my country.