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Posted by JayMan on Tue May 17 00:51:57 2011, in response to Re: Why Socialism Doesn't Work, posted by SMAZ on Mon May 16 18:31:02 2011. >>>>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. It's not necessarily a good thing either! :) It's a tight jam to be in considering how cash strapped we are, and while it creates problems for things like infrastructure, or the social safety net, long term it is less of a problem, especially in terms of education. American education is actually doing pretty good, relative to the rest of the world. More money would be available if we stopped wasting it on the futile effort to bring up the poor scorers and instead concentrated on the high-ability students. 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!" That's true, but as you just pointed out, part of the reason they were able to do that is because they have outsourced most of their defense to us. |
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