
Originally Posted by
999969999
1. I don't like military spending. I hate all wars.We're doing well so far... Agreed I think most of the wars we've been in since the Civil War was a mistake. I wish we had never gotten involved in World War I, World War II,...and now we go off the rails.How do avoid getting into war after being attacked at Pearl Harbor?
One of my history teachers had some rather controversial ideas, and he said that if you just stand back and think about it, why would Japan-- a tiny island nation-- attack a huge country like the United States? It just doesn't make sense. There was no way they could win a war against us. They weren't trying to take over Hawaii. They were provoked into that attack to try to get the general public in the U.S. to get angry enough to go to war. If we hadn't provoked them, they probably would have never attacked Pearl Harbor. What do you think about that?
We stand by as our allies are overrun by a lunatic?
I throw this question out to any Europeans who might be reading this thread... Did you really need our help to win the war against Germany? Wouldn't you have won the war on your own eventually?
And now back to Clocker, think of the American lives we could have saved by not getting involved in that war! And think of how much better our country would have been if we had never become involved in world politics, and just kept to ourselves. We wouldn't have military bases all over the world, making people hate us. 9-11 would have never happened.
Korea, Vietnam, and all of the various Persian Gulf Wars, including Iraq and Afghanistan. Think how much money we have wasted and how many lives we have lost on all of these wars? I should start a new thread about how stupid it was to ever get involved in any of these wars.
If you'd care to discuss the two World Wars, please do.[/color]
2. I no longer support Israel. Really? When you did support Israel, exactly what did you do for them? Is Israel likely to notice that you've withdrawn your patronage?
A poor choice of words on my part. I meant that I wish the United States would stop giving financial aid and military aid to Israel, and wash our hands of the situation over there. It was a mistake and it should be reversed. It one of the things that terrorists often use as a reason to attack us. That and our military presence in the middle east, which should also come to an end.
We should cut them loose, and cut our losses, and maybe it would make the Islamic world a little bit less likely to continue attacking us.Haven't really noticed a whole lot of "continuous attacking" going on. In fact, since 9/11, I'd guess there are more dead of gun violence than any terrorist act within our borders.
True, but there have been some, such as the attack at Fort Hood.
3. I don't support any entitlement programs. They should all come to an end.
Any particular reason or are you just trying to Galt-trip us?
I don't know what that means.
4. I don't support free trade. It should come to an end. We should use tariffs to stop China and various other nations from dumping their cheaply made, crappy products onto our markets and destroying our manufacturing base.
Well, now see, you've run into a problem. If you want to reestablish American manufacturing, you're going to need an educated workforce and according to your Third Commandment: "I don't support any entitlement programs", you don't support educating them either. Pretty sure the Constitution doesn't say anything about having to attend school, does it?
Your workforce is going to be pretty unhealthy as well, expect productivity to be a bitch.
I think education should be privatized as much as possible through vouchers, so that public schools would have to compete with private schools. I think that would make us more competitive in the long run.
As for health care, one of the reasons we are not as competitive in the workforce anymore is because of companies having to provide health care for their employees. There are things that could be done to make health insurance more affordable-- such has having a $5000 deductible per year, so people aren't running to the doctor when they get the sniffles, and eventually it might drive the cost of health care back down to reasonable levels.
5. I am not religious.
Bookmarks