Re: The silence is deafening...

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From: James Ascher
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 17:49

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Jafo wrote:

> As viewed from alt.california, Mike wrote:
>
> >Jafo wrote:
> >> The military will continue to erode as we get big-government
> >> socialism rammed down our throats.
>
> >Excuse me, but "big gov't socialism" is when an administration
> >signs off on billions of dollars for a system that could not and did
> >not work, i.e. SDI.
> >
> >The feeding trough of "The Defense Industry" is slopped up by
> >KKKorporations who do not stand one bit of competetion,
> >and have a long history of obscene cost overruns and defective
> >products, like the $4,000 toilets that were signed off by Ronnie.
> >
> >The Defense Industry, under Ronnie, had a cozier relationship
> >with the money taken out of the pockets of ordinary citizens
> >than Russia or China ever could!
>
> Yeah, we probably shoulda just let the Soviets blow us up.
> Think of all the money we'd have saved.
>
> --
> Jafo                            http://www.cheetah.net/jafo

Hey, if we spent all the money for SDI on infrastructure, the country
wouldn't be crumbling today.  We wouldn't have food poisoning,
transportation accidents because the systems would be up to snuff.

Even under Brezhnev (sp?), the Soviets were crumbling.  Afghanistan was
the nail in their coffin.  As a a result of committing to a puppet regiem
in Afghanistan, the Soviets couldn't sustain internal economic control
for their massive military and low social institutional spending.  (They
had all-encompansing systems for their citizens, but it was at such a low
rate per capita that benefits weren't realized.)

Beginning with Reagan, we followed a similar economic path:  massive
military spending with deep cuts in infrastructure that have lead to the
decay of domestic systems: food inspection, school performance and
transportation systems.

James "thanks for coming, now leave quickly."

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