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On 8/8/12 10:49 AM, wrote:
On Wednesday, August 8, 2012 10:39:19 AM UTC-4, X ` Man wrote:
On 8/8/12 9:38 AM, wrote:

On Wednesday, August 8, 2012 9:23:23 AM UTC-4, x'man wrote:

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On Wednesday, August 8, 2012 7:33:23 AM UTC-4, X ` Man wrote:

On 8/8/12 7:28 AM, wrote:

On Wednesday, August 8, 2012 7:14:23 AM UTC-4, X ` Man wrote:

On 8/8/12 12:05 AM, wrote:

On Tue, 07 Aug 2012 20:47:31 -0400, X ` Man

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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.

So we should have socialized our industries, and should be turning out

high-priced goods nobody would buy. Yeah, that's the ticket.

You need to stick to things you know, like writing fiction.

You really need to move out of Stupidville, South Carolina. Nowhere did

I say we should have "socialized our industries."

Go back and read what you wrote. When you take federal funds from the

military and put it into factories that make common household goods, you

are socializing industry. That's exactly what you proposed.

Maybe that's why you are a liberal. You don't seem to understand what

they are all about, or even what you write.

When you spend federal funds on military hardware you are socializing

defense contractors.

No, you are carrying out the constitutional requirement to provide for the defense of our country.

When you take over 300 billion dollars (half of the military budget) and use it to make refrigerators and lawnmowers (what you proposed), you are socializing industry.

There's nothing in the Constitution that specifies how much must be

spent on the military.

There's also nothing in the Constitution authorizing socialization of US industry.

No one is suggesting that. The conclusion you reached is a figment of
your imagination. Were you edu-ma-cated in South Carolina?

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