A lot of the DLC types say we have to be for more defense spending or we will sound wimpy.
That's a crock of shit. (and the people making it are probably corporate whores paid to say it anyway).
There's a couple of things you can do to prevent sounding cajones-impaired:
1. Point out that our recent wars haven't been about our defense but to profit a handful of businesses. Implied but unstated is if they disagree with you they are suckers. If they agree, they are fighting for
themselves not somebody else.
2. As I do in the post to the Ann Coulter board below, point out the difference between defense and offense, and why we are unlikely to be invaded.
3. Tell them you understand their manhood is threatened. They put on a tie everyday, go sit in a cubicle and do a job that could be done by a ten year old girl. If they want to prove their manhood, they can go buy a bb gun and shoot squirrels instead of spending billions of our tax dollars to kill people who are no threat to us. Or better yet, give all these armchair warriors a gift cetificate to a paintball range, but let them shoot at each other with real guns. They won't learn anything, but there will be fewer of them to fuck up the world.
Re:
Defense vs. Offense budget 09/18/05 06:59 pm
by: Yurbud Msg: 6460 of 6481
By: karlvasa
Date: 09/18/05 03:56 pm
It's time to put up a defense regardless what the whiney, crying cowardly liberals think.
The key word there is DEFENSE. We could spend a hell of a lot less if we were only worried about DEFENSE.
Look at China. In terms of technology and amount of hardware, especially their navy, they are far behind us. Does that mean that we or Russia or India or anyone else is tempted to invade them? No. They are too big to occupy. It would be the same with Russia or us. What country wants to come hear where every third yahoo has a gun?
Additionally, the fact that we have thousands of nukes is enough to deter other countries from trying to invade us--countries that have only a handful of nukes aren't invaded by their neighbors.
What we really have is an OFFENSE budget, that's helping oil companies get their hands on the world's diminishing supply of petroleum.
A Marine Corps General who got two Medals of Honor said wars are rackets about making the rich richer and real defense doesn't require troops in every corner of the world and intervention every time an oil company exec, sweatshop or plantation owner gets their panties in a knot because the natives are driving a hard bargain for wages or natural resources.
http://www.hackvan.com/pub/stig/anti-govt/war-is-a-racket.htm
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