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Posted by SMAZ on Mon May 16 18:31:02 2011, in response to Re: Why Socialism Doesn't Work, posted by JayMan on Sun May 15 22:06:35 2011. So basically what you're saying is that the European (and the Canadians) benefit from having us being their defenders, and the American economy has a lot less to work with per capita because we have shouldered the lion's share of the burden of defending the free world.Yes. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing; if one had to choose what role one wanted to play in that alliance it's always best to be the one who has the biggest military; that gives you the most clout and is the most strategic position to take. But this is apparently a costly role leaving us with little money to spend domestically. When they take away Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Pell Grants, farm subsidies, law enforcement, transportation, infrastructure and education funding so that we can defend even more countries, please don't forget to remind the rest of us about the prestige, clout and great strategy of it all while they laugh their asses off at us. They used to do that shit too. Then they finally realized what's actually important and it's not pointing at a map and saying "hey look, that's India and it's ours!". |
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