A thought occured to me [political]

Leviticus Cirrrealus Titanium · 2007-03-09T06:20:53

This may get a resounding "DUH", but I'll say it anyway. The US government has argued that we (or they) do not have money to create an universal health care system, upgrade our schools (especially urban areas), or handle Social Security and/or Medicaid in the next 50 years. Yet, we have the resources to spend half of a trillion dollars on Iraq and by the time the war is actually over, we will have spent very close if not just over a trillion dollars. Maybe our resident economics expert can clarify things for me, but I'm not understanding our government spending policy (Republican or Democrat). How can you allocate funds for that? And not allocate funds for our domestic issues? After the war how are we going allocate any worthwhile funds? Borrow from China? [headshake]

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Started by Alpha_ProgDes March 06, 2007 08:45 AM

112 comments, last by polly 17 years, 1 month ago

LessBread

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March 08, 2007 11:52 PM

From the sky Hiroshima appeared flattened [1], but not so much from the ground [2], but it's difficult to say how close to ground zero the landscape in that second picture was.

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polly

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March 09, 2007 04:56 AM

Quote:Original post by LessBread
The US had at least three bombs remaining at the end of the war and more on their way.

Do you have a link for this anywhere? I was under the impression the US had only 2 bombs, both of which were used in 1945 at the close of the war in Asia. I also thought that the threat against Japan to keep on throwing nukes at their cities was a bluff, one that paid off in the form of their unconditional surrender..

Jon

Luckless

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March 09, 2007 05:58 AM

Don't forget, with nukes, it doesn't really matter if you even knock a single building down, you are still going to kill most people in a city.

Also, if you want examples of what explosives do to cities that are mainly stone, take a look at the damage in the Halifax Explosion. Largest pre-nuclear bomb, wiped out a very european style set of buildings. Then think about even more power over a more densely populated area.

Something else to keep in mind about the airwar issue is, the US forces with a better highlevel fighter can simply STAY at a high level and pull the Russian fighters up to where they have better 'ground' to fight on. Why move down to their level? Send it groups of bombers supported by better highlevel fighters, and the russians great low level fighters will get slaughtered.

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polly

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March 09, 2007 06:20 AM

As we are in the business of discussing war between the West and the Soviet Union, I thought I'd share with you: the