Comments on: Billionaire Bonanza! http://citizented.com/?p=1231 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:18:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: JS http://citizented.com/?p=1231&cpage=1#comment-1891 JS Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:14:17 +0000 http://citizented.com/?p=1231#comment-1891 Though you’ve proven yourself a true genius this time, I think your statement “(because people can’t make the world a better place of they’re dead)” is dead wrong. The only way to make the world a better place is more dead people. MANY more dead people.

]]> By: Underlankers http://citizented.com/?p=1231&cpage=1#comment-1890 Underlankers Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:27:35 +0000 http://citizented.com/?p=1231#comment-1890 Indeed. “Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

I find it telling that the idea of pruning wasteful investments in high-tech weapons that are so much ratholes in the present day when power is all about economics attracts scads of protest online and off, but the immense power and influence of certain corporate lobbies in Washington attracts only a hardy few willing to repeatedly bang their heads against the wall without gaining anything for it.

]]> By: admin http://citizented.com/?p=1231&cpage=1#comment-1887 admin Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:04:41 +0000 http://citizented.com/?p=1231#comment-1887 Yes indeed, Underlanker. The US is #1 in blowing people up and #35 in patching people up. It’s sad.

]]> By: Underlankers http://citizented.com/?p=1231&cpage=1#comment-1886 Underlankers Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:00:57 +0000 http://citizented.com/?p=1231#comment-1886 I will agree with everything you’ve said here, and note that none of that changes that we still spend four times more on health care to end up 35th in the world for it. At least spending on defense gets us the most efficient stuff designed to kill people in carload lots in the world. What we’ve spent on the current healthcare system is even more for proportionately less gain (and yes, I know that there’s a bunch of pork in the Defense Department).

]]> By: admin http://citizented.com/?p=1231&cpage=1#comment-1884 admin Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:56:16 +0000 http://citizented.com/?p=1231#comment-1884 Our military budget is more than all the military budgets of the rest of the world COMBINED. This is a much more meaningful metric than %GDP. Countries like China are able to defend themselves and project power (right or wrong) with a budget that is a fraction of ours. The DoD is a massive bloated tax-revenue monster that has to be put on a major diet.

]]> By: Underlankers http://citizented.com/?p=1231&cpage=1#comment-1881 Underlankers Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:33:23 +0000 http://citizented.com/?p=1231#comment-1881 Except we spend 3% of the GDP on defense and 12% on Health Care. Other than that I agree with the sentiment, we in the USA need to repress the Military-Industrial Complex before it does unto us what the Soviet MI-Complex did unto it.

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