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Selatius

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Fri May-21-10 12:05 PM
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3. The short answer is several senators are pushing it as a form of jobs program.

People wonder why the defense establishment is so hideously over-sized. It's because if you look in your backyard, there's probably a military installation within 20 miles of you, and the people who work on that base drop money into the local economy.

If you wanted to demobilize the US military and go back to the way things were pre-World War 2, you're talking about killing off a lot of cities and towns that have built up around these installations.

Hate to break the bad news, but war is tremendously profitable, and it will be until somebody has the fortitude to take profit out of war.

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