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Earl[_36_]

X ` Man wrote:
On 8/8/12 12:05 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 07 Aug 2012 20:47:31 -0400, X ` Man
wrote:

We should have cut military expenditures by 50 percent a dozen years
ago, and kept on cutting. What a colossal waste of national resources.

The real problem is that is probably the biggest single jobs program.

I was just in Southern Md and the Navy points out that if they closed
Pax River the whole economy down there would dry up and blow away. You
are certainly not supporting that area with a few crab shacks and
fishing charters.
The CO even thought of paying everyone on the base with $2 bills for a
month so everyone else would understand where the money they have,
comes from.

You hear the same thing everywhere there is a military base.
You also have all if the defense contractors, that are fairly evenly
spread across the whole country. There are very few congressmen who
want to lose a widget factory in their district.

It is the kind of Keynesian socialism lefties like you usually
support.

DoD is a drug that the whole country is addicted to.

As I stated, we should have started cutting the military drastically
at least a dozen years ago, and turned our attention towards
rebuilding our industries and infrastructure, instead of pouring it
down the toilet of military expenditures. Those military hardware
factories could be turning out components for high speed rail lines or
lawnmowers or refrigerators.

But they wouldn't. The greedy unions demand far too much to make the US
competitive.