Quote Originally Posted by F L E S H
When you're comparing a country that spends BILLIONS on defense an everything related to that, are you surprised that you could obliterate everything? Imagine all the good that could come out of even 1/4 of that money if it went into something more constructive... Like education (you could probably send every kid to university with that), health (you could easily provide free national healthcare for a fraction of that money).

But no, get better at killing people, that solves lots of problems, right?
Of course not. It's not what I was implying in fact, just the opposite. We spend far too much on military development especially when compared to what we spend on education and health care. It is truly an unnecessary travesty caused mostly by the fact that the military/industrial/energy complex contributes so much money to campaign coffers (and therefore owns out leaders asses). Also by the fact that our government can't keep it's nose out of other peoples business. I'm no fan of Fidel Castro or his cigars or his opressive rgime, but I do give him credit for having the nerve to tell the US to go fuck itself. And none of the so called peace politicos or fiscal conservatives have the balls to take on a broken system. IE....term limits and accountability...4 or 6 year terms limited to one or two terms(and never ever come back)...a decent 6 figure salary and no pension (get a real job like the rest of us). Our vets don't get shit for pensions or free health care so why should Ted Kennedy or Tom Delay? And you can count on one hand (or maybe two pairs of pants) the number of legislators kids who are in Iraq right now.