It's not just the 1%

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    so economists now recommend that any nation that wants a boost create 10's of millions jobs making weapons, dump them into the sea, and thus get the economy going? Too bad life is not so simple.
     
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    the issue is not how much time I spent there but rather whether they would be better off following the 10 commandments one of which is thou shalt not kill.
     
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    not advocating for WW3 just for making the weapons and then dumping them into the sea. This is in fact what liberals think will work
     
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    Far less working age people in the work force. I believe that was close to .25% of the US population at the time. Could you imagine if. 25% of the US population died in the next 4 years? Almost exclusively men and women ages 18-21?
     
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    Christians have been randomly killing people for 2000 years.
     
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    Can you point to 1 person, besides you, advocating for that?
     
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    seems Europe is importing workers because they don't want fewer workers. USA too wants more workers not less to boost economy. sorry to rock your world.
     
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    Paul Krugman for one, literally . And Obama did. Thats what a stimulus is. Tax and spend to boost the economy, only instead of guns they make bridges now.

    PS: I'm conservative so I don't advocate tax and spend, the exact opposite.
     
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    wrong of course, why then not name your best example???
     
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    Our bridges are in terrible shape, mostly in the sparsely populated areas of middle America.

    And please cite Obama or Krugman say to manufacture something just to throw it in the sea.


    Lastly, you aren't a conservative, you are a Republican. They are become vastly different things since the religious right took over the party.
     
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    Crusades, Salem Witch Trials, abortion clinic bombings and abortion doctor killings. 10s of thousands of other random Christians killing people.
     
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    Deckel Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Except it isn't. The patent processors get paid based on how many they can turn down, not how many they can grant
     
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    It's a cultural/personal choice. It would be made regardless of the levels of welfare available.

    And poverty is only inter-generational if each subsequent set of parents makes the effort to ensure it remains. It's hard work to stay poor in a wealthy western nation.
     
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    Scandinavian countries are less religious, more liberal, and have higher taxes, but they don't have your family breakdown and crime.
     
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    You should probably let your congressman know that DARPA needs to be eliminated. After that, you should get your memory checked as you just stated what I have been saying and you have been pretending isn't true until you are backed into a corner and then changed positions--the government created the market. They did it for the microchip, GPS, and the internet. The CIA funded the algorithms used by google and NASA invented baby formula--you know the same agency that invented the reusable space ship that you claim elon Musk invented. You know Elon Musk don't you? His company SpaceX is the one funded by the government that created and funded the market for private space development that you seem to think there is a huge private sector demand for.
     
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    It's rather stupid to guess a handful of bureaucrats in Washington can guess what new products need to be invented. The USSR and read China killed very slowly 120 million people because the bureaucrats had a worse ability not a better ability to predict the future The heart of a new inventions is trial and error this is something that tens of thousands of entrepreneurs do not something that the government can do . The USSR got famous for not developing one consumer product innovation in its entire life span now that I've helped you along can you tell us why that happened? Also the guy who study DARPA the most does not credit government
     
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    OK good so I will start a new civilization and will make the patent processors the superstars and not guys like Thomas Edison and Bill Gates and Elon muskRockefeller Vanderbilt Brynn Bezos etc. etc.
     
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    What? Scandinavian countries Are not crippled by welfare and by hip-hop cultureand they don't think they are victims and therefore not entitled to work etc. etc. etc. you seem desperate
     
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    You say it's a personal choice and why do all of the people who make the wrong choice have such a close association with crippling liberal welfare programs obviously a crippling welfare programs are causing them to make the wrong choice this is why Before the crippling liberal programs The choices they made were different. Now do you see the connection.
     
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    The Crusades were designed to protect and promote Christianity if Christians didn't do that we would be Muslims not Christians. So If that's your best example you need to start all over againnotice that the left is so brainwashed against religion that's the most basic things about it are beyond their grasp
     
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    You didn't ask whether I agree that our bridges were in terrible shape you wanted to know of one person who wanted to spend on weapons or bridges to build the economy. I gave you the answer and then you change the subject. Do you know why you change the subject
     
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    Again you missed the point Krugman and Obama both thought it was better to manufacture something and then consume it rather than throw it into the sea you are the one who said making the weapons even though they cannot be consumed to increase wealth were somehow A stimulant to the economy. Are you following along now?
     
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    Conservatives tend to be intellectuals and to be very religious in fact Jesus Christ was the first republican. Jesus Christ challenge the power of the liberal Roman state it then created the individual this lead ultimately to freedom Thomas Jefferson and the American Constitution.
     
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    Great so now in liberal Lala land All we need to do is kill lots of young man and that will somehow boost economythat is beyond, way way beyond dumb but it is perfectly liberal to be clear
     

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