To: foreverfree
I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but we all pay for a lot of things we do not use. But before I explain why your post is someone inane, I must explain something that seems to have escaped you.
Congress authorized a system of highways during the Eisenhower administration to interconnect military bases. What you think are interstate highways are, in fact, teh National Defense Highway System. The purposed of that system was to move men and materiel rapidly around the country should the United States homeland be attacked. (One of the lessons learned from the technological developements of World War II was that those technologies, particularly aviation technologies and missile technologies would require rapid mobilization and deployments.)
I doubt you would make this statement: "Aircraft carriers. You paid for them. How many have you been on?"
Yes, it's true we paid for the 12 active aircraft carriers. But that does not mean we can simply paddle up to one and expect a tour by an admiral.
To: Thor_Hammar
Look for the blue signs with the 5 white stars on the interstate. I believe that signifies a stretch of road straight enough to land a large plane on.
15 posted on
08/16/2003 8:28:32 PM PDT by
BabsC
To: Thor_Hammar; foreverfree
Yes, it's true we paid for the 12 active aircraft carriers. But that does not mean we can simply paddle up to one and expect a tour by an admiral. 
17 posted on
08/16/2003 8:33:52 PM PDT by
Paleo Conservative
(Do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)
To: Thor_Hammar
"Aircraft carriers. You paid for them. How many have you been on?"
Just one. USS John F. Kennedy CVA-67.
27 posted on
08/16/2003 8:45:43 PM PDT by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: Thor_Hammar
a system of highways during the Eisenhower administration to interconnect military bases. I was traveling from SC to AL this weekend and saw that Eisenhower Highway System sign (or something to that effect). Is that what that is?
To: Thor_Hammar
I doubt you would make this statement: "Aircraft carriers. You paid for them. How many have you been on?" Yes, it's true we paid for the 12 active aircraft carriers. But that does not mean we can simply paddle up to one and expect a tour by an admiral.LOL! Well, I wasn't planning on doing THAT. :-)
foreverfree
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