Comments on: I Know, Let’s Start A War!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 20:42:38 +0000

In ancient times, Badtux, we at least used a US work force to create the stuff that blows up in US factories, these days everything gets out-sourced and, at best, the weapons are “assembled” in the US. If the money doesn’t move in the US economy, the US economy isn’t helped.

Jams, the guy gets column inches the main newspaper for the US capital. There is no sane explanation for such an situation other than he writes what the owners of the paper think.

Suzan, Broder just writes down what he hears at dinner parties from this country’s “elite”. He listens to the people who control the power in Washington. They are all demented.

By: Suzan

Suzan — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:44:49 +0000

David Broder is a broken, witless old man now who sold out for a pittance in the 80’s to board the Raygun train to guns, gold, fame and prosperity.

He’s never gotten off, and the fact that anyone listens to him (or Limpdick, David F. Brooks, Cal Bigmouth, Bill O’Yeller, Kristol Breaking in the Night, etc., etc.) never ceases to amaze me as they have nothing to offer but utter (intentionally) confused thinking to further daze and confuse the ignorants who populate their “party.”

Party on, Garth?

By: jams o donnell

jams o donnell — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:16:21 +0000

Jesus what sort of idiot is that man? I won’t say more as I would just be largely repeating what you said in the post Bryan

By: Badtux

Badtux — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 06:50:10 +0000

Given how the Navy is now persistently under-manning its ships under the excuse that technology allows them to drive a ship with fewer personnel, I don’t know if the Navy has enough people left on anything other than an aircraft carrier for cutlasses and pistols to make a difference, Bryan :).

The thing about war is that it literally employs people to build stuff to blow up. You might as well just employ people to dig holes, and other people to fill the holes back in, you get about as much economic productivity out of the exercise but without all that icky killing and dying stuff. But given how much of America’s infrastructure is crumbling from decades of persistent underinvestment (underinvestment that strangely enough seems to have started in 1980 with the election of Ronald Reagan — funny, that, eh?), you are certainly right that we have a better alternative to even the digging holes for others to fill in exercise to get the unemployed, err, well, employed.

But I forget, I’m making sense, and that is a cardinal sin in American politics today. Alrighty, then!

– Badtux the Snarky Penguin

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 05:31:10 +0000

It’s fine where it is, because it is all tied together.

The bottom line is that the Republicans have managed to screw up things so badly that we can’t even “fight” our way out of this mess.

The answer is to fix the infrastructure that the Republicans have been ignoring for decades. It generates jobs and produces useful results.

Few people realize, but when an AARAM is used to take out an enemy observation plane, the US is down about $900K on the exchange. Our “bullets” are ten times more expensive than their targets. That is no way to win a war.

The Iranians will just swarm US Naval vessels with World War I mines and small inflatables if they enter the Persian Gulf. Hell, I’m not even sure the Navy really trains to repel borders and other 17th century tactics that the Iranians may well use. I know we don’t have minesweepers that can deal with contact and magnetic mines – we found that out in the first Gulf War.

Buying all this stuff for a high tech war against the Soviets seems a bit of a waste of money when we may need cutlasses and pistols.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 04:54:27 +0000

LOL You posted this as I was posting my comment here: It’s The Economy! Maybe you should move it here, or not. ;) (I think I made an error in the last link of that comment anyway).