On 11/11/2015 6:07 PM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 11/11/15 6:05 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 11/11/2015 5:54 PM, Keyser Söze wrote:
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.
--

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.


I was referencing comments that were made in the recent "Hunting Hitler"
episode (that had nothing to do with hunting for Hitler).

The documentary stated that one of the reasons Japan decided to strike
when they did was because of a perceived weakness in the USA's readiness
for war. This perception was due partly to the reduction
in military spending, starting in 1934 by FDR. FDR's predecessor,
Hubert Hoover's military spending was about 16% of the federal budget.
When FDR assumed office he slashed that to about 8% of the budget.


Oh, didn't see that program, wouldn't take seriously a program called
"Hunting for Hitler," unless it had to do with finding his remains after
he and his significant other offed themselves.


In interests of full disclosure, I only saw that one episode. I
believe it is a series on the "History Channel" and perhaps subsequent
episodes are more focused on theories of what happened to Hitler after
the war ... assuming anything other than the official, historical
records state.

The episode I saw covered the years following WWI and leading up to
WWII. It covered Hitler's activities ... his prison time and rise to
power in the German National Socialist Party, but also discussed the
influences of the Great Depression and actions taken by Hoover, FDR,
Chamberlain and Churchill. The cuts in military spending by FDR was
cited as a major factor in the Japanese decision to attack. They
actually thought they could defeat us before we could recover and respond.