Sir, I am very sorry you lost your job of over 20 years. But there is a difference between the world we would all like to live in, and the world that faces us after yesterday. The year is 2012, not 1984. We are no longer in Ronald Reagan’s America. The sad fact is America can no longer afford to be the international good guy. The world is going to have to go it alone, and that means a slow descent into barbarism for the rest of the world.
We now have only the choice between barbarism abroad and a slim chance of saving the homefront, or fiscal ruin at home and the death of American civilization, resulting later on in barbarism abroad. That is the choice we now face. I am sorry it has come to this.
Thane,
What Ohioan said....
I’ve been with my current company for 19.5 years, and in the defense industry with other companies for 14 years previous to that. For the first time in my life I have a chance at retirement.
I saw the effect of the Clinton defence industry cuts back in 1989-1992....
Turned a once prosperous working class city into a blighted inner city.
Not to mention the ripple effect on the surrounding businesses.
People out of work don’t buy things, eat out, or go on holiday.
Be careful what you wish for...