Dean Vernon Wormer: Zero point two... Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
Bluto: Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Our only realistic chance to solve many of our fiscal problems is through discoveries in science and medicine that can only happen with highly educated people whether they are born in the U.S. or elsewhere.
If we could increase the expected 2030 population from 351 million to 380 million, those added taxpayers would greatly help the national fiscal situation. Regarding the 11 million illegal aliens already in the country, it is not feasible to round them up and send them back. Mexico is already on the brink of implosion, with drug lords controlling much of the country. A realistic approach is needed.
Overseas Military Commitments
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hope of its children.Dwight D. Eisenhower – Farewell Speech
The man who led the Allies to victory in WW II warned the country that the Military Industrial Complex was too powerful. We did not heed his warning. The United States, the only superpower remaining on earth, currently spends more on military than the next 45 highest spending countries in the world combined. The U.S. accounts for 48% of the world’s total military spending. The Cold War has been over for 20 years, but we are spending like World War III is on the near term horizon. There is no country on earth that can challenge the U.S. militarily. So, why are we spending like we are preparing for a major conflict? The impression on the rest of the world is that we have aggressive intentions. Defense spending had peaked at just under $500 billion in 1988. The fall of communist Russia did result in a decline to the $350 billion range from 1995 through 2000, and an economic boom ensued. Since 9/11 we have doubled our spending on defense.
George Bush’s pre-emptive war has cost the American taxpayer $800 billion so far. The human cost of this war is worse than the dollar cost. Almost 5,000 Americans have died for the lies of Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. Thousands of mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, wives, husbands, and children have lost their loved ones for a false cause. Our National Guard troops have been stretched beyond the breaking point. Military families have been devastated by multiple deployments. Soldiers are committing suicide in record numbers. Returning soldiers are not being treated for psychological illnesses. The anger of the Guns N Roses song Civil War captures how I feel.
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