Re: No comments from the GUN_Lovers

"DGDevin" <DGDevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message >
"HeyBub" wrote in message

Those to whom going green is a religious experience can feel some
accomplishment in their own personal lives while simultaneously
despairing
over the state of Mother Earth.

What a bizarre place your mind is. For you to believe that someone who
thinks relying less on fossils fuels means that person is a tree-hugging
eco-looney who wants the human race to return to living in caves reveals a
certain delusional paranoia on your part.

What gets me the most is that it's OK to leave our kids with no gas, oil or
clean water but not a national debt that's not really out of proportion to
things we spend money on. Tax revenue is down because of the Bush tax cuts
that overheated the economy into a meltdown. Yet the Republicans insist
that those tax cuts, though proven disastrous, are off the table. They are
poised to enter the next election as the party of the ultrarich, out of
touch with the millions who are struggling to keep afloat. Again.

I read that a CBO reports says the care for the wounded in AfRaq may top out
at 950 BILLION dollars. For what? To force democracy on nomadic tribesman
and basically feudal societies? To supposedly deny them a place to plot an
attack that was in progress HERE for months without anyone catching on? Are
we going to take on every backwater country in the world the terrorists
might use?

We have bought into the ludicrous idea of fighting a surgical war with
almost no casualties. If that was true, then where is that nearly trillion
dollar bill for wounded care coming from? Unhurt soldiers? Not likely.

We got into this deficit hole by succumbing to terror and allowing ourselves
spending billions on the adult diaper obsessed TSA. This is a bunch that
can't even keep a Nigerian that hasn't bathed for weeks and is using a
stolen ID and boarding pass off our jetliners.

We got here by spending trillions fighting an asymmetrical war with
goatherders who can just wait us out as we exhaust our blood and treasure.
NPR may be a popular target, but it's peanut dust compared to the real money
sinks. Billions in tax breaks for companies that don't pay taxes? Caps on
what the wealthy pay into Social Security? Bust up those sweet deals and
you can make Social Security solvent for a long time. Remove exemptions
for corporate jets. Eliminate the Bush tax cuts. They obviously DID NOT
WORK or else we wouldn't be here.

I am just waiting for Congress to let the US default and watch as a certain
party snatches defeat from the jaws of victory like they did the last time
they pulled his stunt. It doesn't seem credible that people will continue
to vote for tax breaks for people whose lifestyle would hardly change if
they had to go back to the old rules. The pre-Bush tax laws kept this
country solvent.

Did you make a million in hedge fund trading because you live in America?
Well fuc&ing pay for that good fortune and your access to the American
market, your protection by the American military, the FBI, the NSA, the
CIA - all those entities that make sure the rich keep their wealth, aren't
kidnapped or see their assets nationalized. Don't like it? Try China where
they execute crooks like Madoff. <sermon over>

I'm pissed because I saw X-rays of some kid at Walter Reed that had the left
side of his skull pulverized by an IED. What for? Some Godless fuc&ing
Iraqi or Afghani goatherders who hate us just for being there trying to
*help* their sorry asses? WE HATE THEM TOO! So why spend trillions to
"liberate" themselves when history shows they'll enslave themselves to a
strongman dictator as soon as we leave? As they said so well in "Top
Gun" -- The Defense Dept. regrets to inform you that your sons are dead
because they were stupid. We were really stupid not to just leave Iraq
after not finding WMD's.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092099/quotes

Even retiring SecDef Gates, who hand-writes condolence letters to all KIA's
said the time for fighting wars of choice is over.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gates-farewell-20110619,0,870493.story

<<And he has become a voice of caution and even outright opposition to
committing American forces to new wars. Gates publicly questioned the need
to join the NATO air war in Libya, arguing that the military already was
overstretched in Afghanistan and Iraq. Since then, he has sought to limit
the U.S. role . . . the longer he is in office, Gates said, the "heavier"
the burden he bears when he is asked to make decisions that inevitably
involve sending more American troops to their deaths.

"I've got a military that's exhausted," he said. "Let's just finish the wars
we're in and keep focused on that instead of signing up for other wars of
choice.">>

I could have told him that 10 years ago. Wars of necessity will come soon
enough. Skip the wars of choice, especially those that have no tangible
payoff for us. We're bordering on "Fight Club" craziness. Libya in a
firefight? Let's go see! NOT. Their trouble, their fight. Who even knows
if we're putting Islamic terrorist in control of Libya. Like an old fire
dog, we hear the sirens of war and go running.

--
Bobby G.




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