On Wednesday, August 8, 2012 1:31:26 PM UTC-4, (unknown) 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.

To be clear, I'm not against trimming the defense budget. I am against socializing US industry.

Those evil military contractors build the world's best military equipment. If the government opened their own fighter jet factory (or refrigerator factory), we'd have jets and refrigerators that costs twice as much as current ones do and would only work half the time. Think Yugo.