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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries
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To: AC Flyer who wrote (26285)12/18/2002 11:33:44 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (4) of 74559
 
ACF, the main issue about USA military budgets vs other military budgets is that USA soldiers are paid comparably with other Americans. They are paid a fortune compared with Chinese and Indians, where a fleet of soldiers can be hired for the same cost as one American.

But then there is the qualitative difference where USA military equipment, [such as gold-plated toilet seats], which typically costs a fortune compared with the non-military specification product at Home Depot or Wal-Mart, vastly outperforms military equipment used by Chinese, Iraqis and Osama.

With the latest compressed air toilets, US military toilets will be able to flush with a fraction of the water normally used. Which will be a great help in the Iraqi desert. The poorly equipped Iraqis probably won't even have flush toilets, let alone jet-propelled models.

The big question then is; with their high salaries and jet-propelled toilets, [resulting in the biggest military budgets the world has ever seen], can the American soldier outperform the hillbilly with a starting blocks model? Will satellite-based high-powered lasers and radar-targeted defence shield rockets intercept incoming dirty used uranium/diesel/fertilizer bombs in shipping containers.

Will highly-trained and well-paid sky marshalls succeed in intercepting low-paid disease-bearing Moslem customers who spray aerosols in movie theatres?

Money can't buy love and I'm not sure that it's a necessary and sufficient condition to win respect militarily.

Mqurice
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