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Monday, October 3
Concise article by Andy Rooney about the U.S.'s miltary spending... did you know we spend $200 million a year on bullets?
Then again, some very interesting dissenting discussion on fark.com, such as:
Then again, some very interesting dissenting discussion on fark.com, such as:
I want eight Sea Wolf submarines because when the Chinese decide to put forth some blue-water effort, I want ours to be better. I want a few more cruise missiles because when we have to start knocking down North Korea's military infrastructure in response to either an artillery attack on South Korea or a ballistic attack on either Japan or our own West coast, we can do so without having to incinerate the vast majority of his enslaved population. I want better tanks, planes, helicopters, ships, and guns because when American soldiers go into battle, they better damn well be the best.
If this means you or your friends have to work at McDonalds to support your graduate studies in lemming masturbation, fine by me. If this means NPR has to suck up a little harder to contributers, good. If this means AMTRAK goes the way of the dodo, it's about damn time. And for damn sure if it means an end to paying farmers to lay fields fallow and artificially inflate prices, well that's gonna be cool by me too.
