Re: OT - The Hydroplaning Economy

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:40:05 -0700, "bruce"
<bruce.snell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"Bob Giddings" <bobg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:04:17 GMT, Al Balmer <albalmer@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:53:16 -0500, Bob Giddings <bobg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


Initially, perhaps, depending on whether you dominate. In the
long term, everybody goes broke burning up money.

Nope. They don't actually burn it, you know. They use it to pay people
and buy goods.

And most of what is bought is intended to go up in smoke.

Even better. Then you have to buy more and pay more people for goods and
services.

Bruce


Let me understand you perfectly. Is it truly your position that
the return on military expenditures by the United States in Iraq
are as productive as, say, bridges, roads, or health care in the
United States?

Does this include the hundreds of millons of dollars in bales of
100 dollar bills shipped over on military aircraft to bribe the
tribal pooh-bahs?

Does it include all the "reconstruction" projects that will
remain in Iraq in the form of falling down schools and hospitals?

How about the 600 billion in off the books debt we have incurred?
All productive, is it?

Tell me, do you think there is any way to waste money? Any way
at all?

Bob


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