Off-Topic: You are wrong about 1 thing
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MartiniMan
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You are wrong about 1 thing
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7/16/2009 11:11:43 AM
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I can assure you blaming the defense industry for the placement of their facilities is like blaming the pusher because you have a drug habit. Our elected officials are to blame for their willingness to exchange votes for jobs and the defense industry, like every other industry that relies on government business, simply plays the game according to the rules handed them.
As for my opposition to the stimulus, what I oppose is their idea of government controlled stimulus. To wit, take money from the productive, waste $2 out of every $3 on useless bureaucracy, provide all initial funds to inept state and local government to preserve and create more government jobs, and dole out the rest to political supporters three years after it's actually needed. I prefer the Republican's Economic Stimulus Plan that actually puts the money in the hands of the productive to return our economic engine to health and prosperity. If you need details I would be glad to send it to you.
As I said above I don't know enough about the F22 to know whether we need it for our national defense. Considering my belief that the federal government should only be limited to a very few areas, one of which is national defense, I would be more open to that spending program. Teachers, state and local government workers, health care for all, nationalization of private companies and so on are not the Constitutional business of the federal government. Central planning of the economy has never worked Comrade Archie!
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