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Originally posted by Claeren@Jul 9 2005, 03:54 PM
And incrediably those dollars would be spent at home and not abroad, reducing that 200 billion dollar burden relative to GDP significantly.
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i've always been of the theory that defence spending is not the worst thing a government could do, especially if most of the weapons etc. are made in the same country.
the profits are not flying away to foreign nationals, as intelligence money for the most part would be. advanced intelligence would mean using arab allies, like jordan, to infiltrate terror groups, and fund jordan's own military industrial complex. their spies, their ministries, their translation / signal intelligence.
honestly though i see where you're going with that, it would be a better dollar per american life saved, no question.
money versus the youth of the nation, now that gets tricky.
the cost i'm thinking of is not $200 billion.
the cost i'm thing of is one thousand, seven hundred, and thirty-five, and mounting.