Is America Too Poor To Remain A Military Superpower ?

AmericanEconomicAlert.org ^ | Wednesday, March 30, 2005 | William R. Hawkins

[Willie Green]

US wants to help India be a superpower!

[Willie Green]

ping

[KevinDavis]

Same crap I heard in the 80's and the answer is no.

[Pukin Dog]

The decrease in the size of our Military should be compared with the logic of instead of using two pistols to shoot someone, you can usually do a better job with one shotgun.

All the talk about the smaller size of our military does not take into account the fact that our current military could wipe the floor with our own military of 10 years ago. It would not even be a fair fight.

[Howie66]

As long as we can keep the liberals (read socialists) at bay, we'll be in good shape.

Now, let's force some reform to our F-U'd judicary.....

[SittinYonder]

There are two legitimate purposes for the federal government: national defense and lighthouses. Yet we shift dollars from national defense to pay for all kinds of outrageous "gimme programs." We need meaningful and deep spending cuts combined with increases in defense spending and cuts (or better yet, significant reforms) in taxes.

[snowsislander]

Thanks for the ping.

I think we should pay whatever price is needed to keep our preeminence as the world's superpower. And I would fund it by eliminating the Department of Education (a nice $60-70 billion contribution), and our funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, public broadcasting, and a host of other socialist programs that would only do good for our country if they were eliminated this afternoon.

[KevinDavis]

I agree...

[SittinYonder]

I think we should pay whatever price is needed to keep our preeminence as the world's superpower. And I would fund it by eliminating the Department of Education (a nice $60-70 billion contribution), and our funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, public broadcasting, and a host of other socialist programs that would only do good for our country if they were eliminated this afternoon.

You can say that again!

[KevinDavis]

Getting rid of Amtrack would help..

[CyberAnt]

Is it just me .. or have the hounds of hell been unleashed upon this country - I'm just stunned by all these attacks.

[Always Right]

How could have our economy in real terms doubled in the last 20 years? I thought the WTO and NAFTA ruined our economy.

[KevinDavis]

These articles happen all of the time. Usually happen more everytime there is a Republican in office. I remember hearing this stuff when Reagan was President.

[Sprite518]

The US governments number one job is to protect its citizens. So cuts can come from other areas of government.

[Willie Green]

How could have our economy in real terms doubled in the last 20 years?

By quadrupling our National Debt?

[Lekker 1]

Our greatest enemies don't have (significant) navies.

[CyberAnt]

Yeah, I've picked up on the fact that a repub is in office - but this seems to be slightly different - more desperate to poison public opinion - an over saturation so to speak. It's very disconcerting to me.

[Poohbah]

This article attracts a certain sort of FReeper who is much given to hysteria, and is woefully ignorant of what the military is, what it does, and how it does it. This FReeper's idea of strategy, operations, and tactics are dervied from Grade-Z war movies. In short, this sort of FReeper knows about as much about real war as those bilious bastards at the Saturday Evening Post know about fornicating.

[KevinDavis]

I think it has to do with the internet mostly. You are right I have noticed more of these articles lately. We do have problems, however, I don't think that this nation is going to crash and burn in the near future..

[You Dirty Rats]

We'll end up a lot poorer if we don't!!