RE: Medicare, Defense or Social Security?
April 4, 2011 at 7:40 pm
(This post was last modified: April 4, 2011 at 7:40 pm by orogenicman.)
Quote:Almost all of it could be better spent. That doesn't mean we shouldn't spend a great deal on defense (and especially offense).
How much is enough? How many nukes do we need to ensure our safety? From my perspective, even one is one too many. How many tens of millions do we need to spend on each aircraft while our foot soldeirs don't have enough basic equipment? Now, imagine spending those 100s of billions of dollars on efforts to bring peace. Would that not also make us more safe?
Quote:Almost all of it could be better spent. That doesn't mean we shouldn't spend a great deal on defense (and especially offense).
How much is enough? How many nukes do we need to ensure our safety? From my perspective, even one is one too many. How many tens of millions do we need to spend on each aircraft while our foot soldeirs don't have enough basic equipment? Now, imagine spending those 100s of billions of dollars on efforts to bring peace. Would that not also make us more safe?
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
