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   richardelguru said, 5 months ago

   Fat chance!
   (if that’s quite the right expression)
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   Jase99 said, 5 months ago

   @

   They don’t get that, either. Civilians are left to starve so that the government elite can eat their fill.
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   Chillbilly said, 5 months ago

   North Korea (grossly inaccurately portrayed as a communist country) is in fact a manifestation of what happens when government reduces its role to defender of a tiny minority of ultra-powerful elite. Want to raise taxes in North Korea? YOU CAN’T. No money. Want to cut benefits, make the poor fend for themselves? Make a new rocket and put your picture on it.
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   Dycel said, 5 months ago

   Interesting in Korea the people have been spoon fed BS then beaten down and they actually believe their masters are there for them.
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   Omnius said, 5 months ago

   It must have been the recently discovered Unicorn Lair that helped get that rocket to space on the back of a flying unicorn. Bet they can’t do that twice in a row. Now they need another unicorn to go up and stabilize their tumbling satellite.
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   capndunzzl said, 5 months ago

   …nah, they use the food for the rocket fuel.
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   I Play One On TV said, 5 months ago

   @Chillbilly

   I think you have just described today’s Republican party. If we cut all domestic programs and spend our entire budget on the military…..yeah, that’s it. Kim Jong-Boehner. Has a nice ring to it.
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   ansonia said, 5 months ago

   @I Play One On TV

   Right. And now that N Korea has demonstrated that it can launch a rocket, whch some believe ispart of their plan to develop technology to launch a nuclear warhead on a long range missle, spending money on national defense is wasteful spending?
   .
   Oh that’s right, the UN, who has stated that this is a clear violation of their resolution, will step in. They will write a letter saying they are very very angry and to just stop it, and N Korea will comply.
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   I Play One On TV said, 5 months ago

   @ansonia

   You misunderstand, or perhaps you choose not to see. Spending money on national defense is not wasted. Spending $600 on a toilet seat or a hammer is.

   I know that’s being overly simplistic, but it cuts both ways. We are spending hundreds of billions for a Star Wars missile defense system that will never work. The Osprey has shown us how quickly we can make billions of dollars crash and burn, literally, yet the program won’t be killed. The Republicans, the party of fiscal responsibility, have insisted we spend $5 billion for a missile defense plan for the east coast; something that the Pentagon, which is not known for fiscal restraint, does not want. I’m willing to bet that a few no-bid contracts that were given to KBR, Halliburton, and/or Blackwater could be cancelled with absolutely no deleterious effects on our safety or security.

   Cutting off all defense spending would be just as serious as cutting all domestic spending. No one is advocating tearing down the Pentagon. Republicans advocate building up the Pentagon to even greater heights by cutting all domestic spending.

   Wouldn’t it be ironic if our untouchable, continually-increasing defense spending led us to the point that there was nothing left to defend?

   I find it amusing that people have no problem seeing people who are on government assistance as being a drain on the economy when corporate welfare is totally ignored. GE spent zero dollars on federal income taxes last year. Do you think they earned zero dollars in the US last year? Which do you think cost us more: no taxes for GE, or unemployment benefits for workers who lost their jobs due to reckless policies in the banking industry? Who would lose more if we stopped both sets of benefits?

   And here’s something else for you to chew on: Dubya called Iraq, Iran, and North Korea the “Axis of Evil”. Then he invaded the only country in the “Axis” that didn’t have a nuclear program. What does that say to everyone else? Develop a nuke program, or the US will invade. Another glorious foreign policy decision.
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    Justice22 said, 5 months ago

    North Korea’s chief ally, China, is the only outside influence having a chance to create change in N Korea’s policies. they live in the 1930’s and this weapons program is all they have to show the world.
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    sbeavin said, 5 months ago

    At least hitler was good enough to outright kill his unwanted people. Seems preferable to what many of the citizens of N Korea have to endure.
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    dtroutma said, 5 months ago

    First, military dictatorships, whether Stalin or Kim, aren’t “communist”. Nationalism, whether in Germany post WW I, or in Korea, is a dangerous critter that will feed on it’s own. That is what has fed the military-industrial complex here at home as well, and led to “fear and terror” being the rationale for all oppressive actions, even in our “democracy”.

    
    It is time to evaluate where our nation is going, with neither “right”, nor “left”, standing united to work for “We the People”, those with blood pressure, not the SCOTUS created “persons”, now bleeding us dry. Capitalism IS a completely valid and legitimate economic system, WHEN PROPERLY REGULATED, but without regulation FOR the good of ALL, republics fall.
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    Radish said, 5 months ago

    The US military has nearly a thousand generals and admirals, they are treated royally, many have their own planes and helicopters.
    The US military maintains 234 golf courses around the world at an undisclosed price.
    For non-golfers, the military also maintains a ski lodge and resort in the Bavarian Alps, which opened in 2004 and cost $80 million.

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    http://www.salon.com/2012/12/12/7_absurd_ways_the_military_wastes_taxpayer_dollars/
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    fritzoid said, 5 months ago

    “For non-golfers, the military also maintains a ski lodge and resort in the Bavarian Alps, which opened in 2004 and cost $80 million.”
    

    
    My proposal for Guantanamo: Close the prison, and turn the base into an R&R facility for enlisted military personnel (and let them bring their families). Open the employment of civilian support to (commuting) Cubans; we can pay them dirt cheap and STILL give them higher wages than they can get on the rest of the island. Camp Club Med.
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    Rickapolis said, 5 months ago

    Remember, Sarah Palin thinks the North Koreans are our allies.
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