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Cimarron29414 · 02-23-2010, 02:36 PM

Ace,

Generally, the point is "moot" in both directions. To suggest that a government which willingly overspends $1.4T would suddenly have some fiscal restaint that implies "let the poor people starve because we have to finance a war" is absurd. To create an argument that war money is being taken out of the hands of social programs doesn't jive with the trends of our federal government. They don't care how much they spend, no stone goes unleased.

Any of us can only speculate to our wildest dreams what would have happened had WWII or TWOT not been waged. To attempt a price tag to justify it having been fought (or having not been fought) is impossible. The argument will always land with those who supported the war justifying the cost and those who didn't justifying the waste.

02-23-2010, 02:36 PM	#123 (permalink)
Cimarron29414 Still Free Location: comfortably perched at the top of the bell curve!	Ace, Generally, the point is "moot" in both directions. To suggest that a government which willingly overspends $1.4T would suddenly have some fiscal restaint that implies "let the poor people starve because we have to finance a war" is absurd. To create an argument that war money is being taken out of the hands of social programs doesn't jive with the trends of our federal government. They don't care how much they spend, no stone goes unleased. Any of us can only speculate to our wildest dreams what would have happened had WWII or TWOT not been waged. To attempt a price tag to justify it having been fought (or having not been fought) is impossible. The argument will always land with those who supported the war justifying the cost and those who didn't justifying the waste. __________________ Gives a man a halo, does mead. "Here lies The_Jazz: Killed by an ambitious, sparkly, pink butterfly."