Martin Ent Inc wrote: I still need a few just so I can say I got em.
There like Shoes are to wemen, can't make up your mind which one so buy em all.
I'm talking about the governments weapons, not yours..I am for anything that empowers people against government. So i'm all for your guns, my guns and my nieghbors guns...Go ahead and build a gun nest on your roof and mount a 50 calibre gun up there for all I care..
Martin Ent Inc wrote: I still need a few just so I can say I got em.
There like Shoes are to wemen, can't make up your mind which one so buy em all.
I'm talking about the governments weapons, not yours..I am for anything that empowers people against government. So i'm all for your guns, my guns and my nieghbors guns...Go ahead and build a gun nest on your roof and mount a 50 calibre gun up there for all I care..
Let's see, there are a number of different groups that profit or benefit from the budget. They are all at risk of being cut. One is trying not to be cut and trying to push cuts to other sectors/groups.
This is the design of the game. Just as with everything else, the game is all ok till the thing you like is not winning. I assume that groups and people that feel that social services, plowing or food safety are critical to the people or their own job will try the same.
Then you talk about strategy within the game where if you don't constantly try to increase your budget, it is like an admission that you have enough money or that your task is not important. Many also have to use the strategy that if we don't fully use our budget for this year, it will go to someone else and we won't get it again next year, even if we don't even really need to exist.
It seemed to me like you were talking about this like morals play into it and like those that spend their lives making bombs and selling them are all of a sudden going to realize they don't need to and go plow a field (or find a pile of paper to keep moving).
This is not even learned behavior, this is survival breeding playing out.
Once the money leaves the pocket of the person who earned it, I think we can all agree that it becomes pretty tricky figuring out which one of us gets it.
FredHayek wrote: Infrastructure spending, do it for the jobs...
Clean energy spending, do it for the jobs...
Defense spending, why not? And it might even save lives. The more drones you put in the air, the less you risk our troops. Or would LJ and the Huffington Post prefer to see more dead and wounded GI's?
No... she would like to see more dead and wounded Americans in general.