Some say Reagan won the Cold War...

[Aeson]

I can see how you might think construction work is a difficult thing to learn to do.

[Cort Haus]

Soldiers are trained to blow **** up, not build things.

The Roman soldiers built things.

[BeBMan]

And then there are those combat engineers in lotsa militaries. Sure, sometimes they destroy. But they also build a lot.

[Tupac Shakur]

Leave it to Poly to take seriously a flippant response to a stupid argument.

[Fake Boris]

Soldiers needed to earn an income anyway. So did the people at defense contracting firms and other support organizations.

We're not talking about fixed costs, but specific campaign costs.

Disingenuous, stupid, or both?

[Tupac Shakur]

Disingenuous, stupid, or both?

I have the same question about your "people use healthcare and retire, so the government simply has to fund both" argument.

[Fake Boris]

Really?

[Tupac Shakur]

Yes.

[Fake Boris]

OK.

Iraq was easier to avoid than general Medicare and retirement costs.

Therefore whatever was spent there could have been saved, and it would have been a net gain, while in the other case you're shifting the costs on the individual consumer - and those who can't afford, just don't get.

[Tupac Shakur]

The fact that Medicare insulates individual consumers from the costs of their healthcare is one of its greatest flaws. The fact that it takes money from relatively poorer segments of society and transfers it to a relatively wealthier segment of society is another. Elderly people do need healthcare, but that in no way justifies the piss-poor system we have now and the deleterious effect it has on the US federal government's fiscal position. In summation, your argument was either disingenuous, stupid, or both. Which is it?

[Fake Boris]

We're not talking about the money involved anymore.

Thanks.

[Tupac Shakur]

Filosofers

[Fake Boris]

Just admit you didn't make any sense and you're trying to start an altogether different debate.

[Tupac Shakur]

We didn't have a debate before. You said something stupid (or, less likely, disingenuous) and I was mocking you.

[Whoha]

...by goading the USSR into a bankrupting militarism.



If one accepts this premise, must one also acknowledge that Osama bin Laden has won the War on Terror?

We have had the long standing military force since before Osama so that is not the case. I have to stand with Drake et al on this one, the boomers won the war on terror against America.