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The Economic Cost of the Military Industrial Complex

BFH,

You are a comunitarian! If you don't know what you are look it up.

I am a libertarian. I don't want to have a group of people that regulate me, with out my say. Remember what Paine said in "Common Sense"? Probably not if you spout out the crap like you just said, yet you claim to be an American.

"Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer." Paine “Common Sense” 2/14/1776

Being an American is about personal independence and ownership, yes ownership, "I am" is the phrase we use not "ours". It is MY work, not our work, it is MY property not our property. I am not a slave, I own my life. I am sovereign and I delegate to the government I don't ASK government for permission they ask ME for permission! That is being American! Liberty is what America stands for, the shining city on a hill that leads by example. I said Example not Coercion.

People like you, that wish to regulate, and regulate and want for the common good and want to rule by committee and like averages. You know what average is? It is half way to terrible! I want excellent and you don't get excellent by making everyone average. So if you want average and you want community and common good and you want everyone to be equal through regulation by the Elite then go back to Europe or where ever you spent those 8 wonderful years but, don't go to Asia because they at least know what being excellent is! This communitarion crap you spout will not work there, they have had their chance to have a good long look at average and below average for quite a while and you know what. The Asians don't like it, who could blame them.

I want freedom to let people do what they want to do, be what they want to be. What is good for me is usually good for others.

Before you say you’re proud to be an American learn what it means to be an American! Read Paine, Monroe, Jefferson & Adams ( the guy on the beer not the president).

And if those aren't your ideals then you might not be an American. It is your Ideas that make you an American not your birthplace. If you love liberty and hate violence. If you own your life, labour and ideas and would never be a slave or steal those of others. If you take responsibility for yourself and your actions. Then you are an American I don't care where you were born! If these don’t apply to you then YOU are NOT one of us! You should then find your own people and do what ever it is that you all want to do and stop trying to OWN us!

We Americans have had about enough of this crap, we are unbeatable. America is an idea you can’t kill ideas. We can’t loose! Your system will not work, it requires control, our system does not

The Economic Cost of the Military Industrial Complex

Excellent article!

Those on this post that defend the spending need to read another book written by a Marine corps Major General and 2 Medal of Honor winner
Smedley Darlington Butler and his book "War is a Racket"

I thought like many on this site do at one time, that read the newspapers and believed what they were told and felt that they were well informed. This is a short book and worth reading here it is for free: www.horstwisdom.com/wi...

This is very relevant to an investment forum because we Americans are all being robbed by our government!