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[Scuba]

1. Dollars that teachers or firefighters will spend won't help the economy. Only dollars...

...that incredibly wealthy international MIC owners stash in their already bloated Swiss bank accounts will help the economy.

[Wilms]

2. Well explained, Scuba.

:thumbsup:

[kenny blankenship]

3. "Military Keynesianism"

aka Nationalsozialismus.

[xchrom]

4. r

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

5. From the LA Times article...

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The military's top weapons buyer quietly visited the Palmdale facility this month to talk with leading aerospace executives about plans to build a fleet of radar-evading bombers that the military hopes to have ready for action by the mid-2020s.

</snip>

A fleet of bombers in case we choose to destroy the world, or what?

[Scuba]

6. We're losing the arms race. Seriously, it's crippling our economy....

...the Soviets just lost first.

[Javaman]

7. We could do the same with electric rolly cars...

but that would give mobility to the prols. Something repukes and certain dems certainly don't want.

employment and mobility? I know: taboo.

[toddwv]

8. Hmmm...

$50,000,000,000 (just the start up costs which are probably 1/2 to 1/3 of what the actual development costs will be if not more) would buy 1,242,236 Chevy Volts at a little over $40,000 a piece.

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

9. I like your idea much better. nt

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

10. This is a key reason why the U.S. Economy is not recovering.

The military industrial complex is now one of America's biggest employers providing high paid jobs in nearly every Congressional District, and all at taxpayer's expense. The taxpayers can't afford it and the government, which raises 59 cents for every dollar it spends must borrow or print the money.

[Kaleko]

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