On 11/11/15 4:45 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 11/11/2015 4:36 PM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 11/11/15 4:29 PM, John H. wrote:
On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:27:05 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote:

If I have it right, you think we need more illegal aliens, the economy
is fine, there are plenty of jobs available, spending levels need
to be
higher, the $19 trillion dept needs to be bigger, the IRS needs more
pages of regulations, government should take more from the workers in
taxes, we need more regulations on people and businesses, a terrorist
attack here and there is fine, no need to increase military spending,
we don't need to repatriate overseas earnings, we need to tax it, no
need to try and improve our trade, currency manipulation is not real.

It would be interesting to hear from you what part of the above he got
wrong.
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Ban idiots, not guns!


The GOPer wannabes did not present workable solutions to any of the
problems facing this country. Cutting taxes for the wealthy does not
solve these problems, it simply puts more wealth they don't need in
their pockets. The funniest one, though, is the implication that we need
to spend more on the military. Wasn't it that idiot Rubio who suggested
that? We do need to spend more on care for veterans, but the money for
that can easily be found within the existing military budget, which
should be gradually cut by at least 50%.


FDR cut the military budget by 53% to fund the first part of the "New
Deal".

Japan decided it was time to attack. Germany declared a few days later.
Both assumed the US was too weak militarily to respond.





I don't believe Japan's decision that it was time to attack had to do
with any perceived military weakness in the United States. The Japanese
knew the order of battle of U.S. forces in the Pacific and the ability
of U.S. industrial plants to turn out whatever was needed in relatively
short order. In any event, the U.S. managed to hand Japan a decisive
defeat at the battle of Midway about six months after the Pearl Harbor
attack.