(April 30, 2016 at 12:27 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(April 30, 2016 at 11:06 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: ... and yet you buy Trump's promise to strengthen the military and simultaneously reduce costs by eliminating waste.We could eliminate the military spending by simply killing all of our real and possible enemies with our current weapons today.
Clearly one part of your brain is not sharing information with the other part of your brain. The result is, of course, incoherence.
Politics is the art of the possible. What you're suggesting is not possible. I suspect you're simply trying to shock, but believe me, your schtick is transparently thin.
(April 30, 2016 at 12:27 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: We really don't have any strong military adversaries that we have to worry about.
We have no active enemies right now, true. But two potential enemies have the ability to destroy us as a functioning nation.
(April 30, 2016 at 12:27 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: The only real reason to spend money on the military is to keep people busy building stuff and to maintain the manufacturing capability. Plus guys (and women) get to wear fancy uniforms.
An overly simplistic view that doesn't deserve anything other than a pithy dismissal, which is exactly what it's getting here.
