The above may have something to do with the military-dee-fence contractor pork.
Tom
Max Sawicky wrote:
> >>
> Talk about crackpot realism. So you're saying we should build weapons
> because they're the only politically possible form of public
> spending?
>
> Forget schools, healthcare, environmental repair and just
> feed the death machine? Really Max, you should get out of the Beltway
> more often. If this is the state of American social democracy, then
> we're in even worse shape than I feared.
>
> This is lesser evilism taken to homicidal extremes. A few months ago,
> it was either run up big surpluses or privatize Social Security. Now
> you're offering the choice between idleness and death. >>
>
> Easy big fella.
>
> It was a hypothetical with postulated constraints.
> It was not my description of actual choices presently
> before us or necessarily before us later. But such a
> situation is not inconceivable. When spending goes
> up, it tends to do so across the board, not just in
> areas we like. That's the nature of the legislative
> process with two centrist parties and a somnolent
> working class.
>
> >>The point
> should be to challenge these awful choices our rulers present us
> with, not trying to figure out which is the slightly less bad option.>>
> >>
>
> I do both, though I don't endorse the
> less bad option when it's not less bad enough.
>
> mbs