Empire breaking its own back
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wizardzz wrote:
you are choosing to expand now.
WTF? :laugh: :laugh:
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Interesting, sounds like you have a problem with your government being bought via lobbyists. That sounds like something you guys should take care of.
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yeah we are trying to get on top of it, a law going through now that will open the books on exactly what looby groups visit what politicians... that should be good.
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How else do I say it? You are trying to make a point that I don't have interest in talking about, especially because it is not that relevant to my OP.
sorry man, but i don't see how we're talking about different things. the topics of military spending, and wasteful spending, and people who complain about waste in one area but not the other are kindof all the same topic, when you're talking about what the government spends its money on vs what it doesn't.
wizardzz wrote:
relevant to my OP
your OP? but i thought the OP's OP was the only P we could talk about. :confused: :)
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Great, and since it's your country, you live there, and you understand it better than I. I won't tell you how to do it.
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with a military base in ~130 of 196 countries in the world, spending more than 1.4 TRILLION dollars a year on death and destruction. (44% of global military spending 11% of USA GDP) Imagine how awesome the health care / education / etc systems could be if that money was spent on productive things. You could have free health care instead of chucking people without insurance out of the back of the ambulance. you could have free universities and have the most highly skilled and innovative people on the planet. sadly this is not the truth.
Now see you should have bitched about how the US uses "free" trade agreements to support the US private industry run rampant across the planet. You would have got a much more positive response. Bitching about the military from NZ is just silly, you only piss off the military supporters without getting the real point across.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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you touch on a great point why is USA dictating to the world how they should conduct affairs of state? USA is the worst world police state ever !!! hope it goes bankrupt soon and disolves into states like USSR did
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sorry man, but i don't see how we're talking about different things. the topics of military spending, and wasteful spending, and people who complain about waste in one area but not the other are kindof all the same topic, when you're talking about what the government spends its money on vs what it doesn't.
wizardzz wrote:
relevant to my OP
your OP? but i thought the OP's OP was the only P we could talk about. :confused: :)
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no, you?
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Debating with Chris is like trying to win the lotter, ain't gonna happen. Just let it ride. :)
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