Thu 7 Jan, 2010
Want to know why we can’t have universal health care? Because we’re too busy spending $711 billion dollars on killing brown people.
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Tags: 711 billion dollars, Can't we kill brown people for less, WarComments (6)
Laci the Dog says:
You have to worry about a country that wages war rather than address its issues at home. On the other hand, there is a segment of the populace that would prefer the continued unregulated proliferation of firearms to health care: again despite the cost of this policy to society.
Not at all unrelated concepts:
The importance of this article (the Second Amendment) will scarcely be doubted by any persons, who have duly reflected upon the subject. The militia is the natural defence of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is against sound policy for a free people to keep up large military establishments and standing armies in time of peace, both from the enormous expenses, with which they are attended, and the facile means, which they afford to ambitious and unprincipled rulers, to subvert the government, or trample upon the rights of the people.
–Joseph Story’s: Commentaries on the Constitution.
cft says:
@Php: Great post. Boy, we’d better keep an eye on the Chinese. Their military budget is approaching 20% of that of the USA. (Just imagine what the difference in military spending per capita must be…)
@Laci:
On the other hand, there is a segment of the populace that would prefer the continued unregulated proliferation of firearms to health care: again despite the cost of this policy to society.
A good point. It leads me, however, to wonder how much of this putatively widespread anti-health care stance is in fact a useful fiction that arises from the manner in which ‘current events’-type questions are framed in certain domains of American media/’news’ culture. I guess what I’m driving at is that, sure, a significant portion of our fellow citizenry probably thinks it wants guns more than it wants health care and, if asked a typically shabby/ambiguous poll question, would describe their feelings in that way.
But take many of these people out of their comfort zone of familiar/reflexive gestures, cliches and prejudices, and it becomes clear that they’re so caught up in webs of double-speak, fear-mongering and agenda-pushing opportunism that they don’t have the slightest understanding of why they’re on the ‘side’ of these debates and not the other. Propaganda is a powerful tool. Thank god blogs like this are around to force people to think once in a while. Man, it’s late, I’m rambling, and I’m going to get off of my soapbox. Later…
stunatra says:
What a waste of money.
moe says:
and i say to myself, what a wonderful world
monique says:
i noticed that OHHH has nothing to say.
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Phuck Politics says:
@Monique – This kind of stuff gets OHHHH’s dick hard.