Laugh it up fruitcake.
See below. (Emotion, invective, etc.)
What the hell do we spend $400 Billion on a military every year for ($10 Trillion in the past 50 years), and we can't even scramble a few planes to defend our nation's capitol on 9/11/01?
You're saying that no planes were scrambled on the morning of September 11th, 2001. Are you sure about that?
We have troops all over the globe for all sorts of reasons, but can't defend our own country properly when under attack, something doesn't add up.
Something definitely doesn't add up: you're complaining about the size of military budgets, and yet you apparently want troops and military equipment in domestic city streets?
There are a lot of things about 9/11 that don't add up.
I have a brief list of my own, but I'd love to hear what, in your mind "do[es]n't add up"?
I haven't yet...despite seeing loads of character assassination, invective, emotion-inundated rhetoric, and undocumented conspiratorial nonsense...reviewed a credible bit of evidence pointing to a gigantic, secret* conspiracy behind which - depending upon who tells it - were the Bush Administration, Israel, France, Russia, or something called "elite banking interests," a term which though bandied about liberally no one seems willing to define.
Ever heard of the Green Brook flood control project that has been on the drawing boards for 30 years because of a lack of funds? It would only take about $200 Million to complete and would benefit the central part of our state quite a lot.
You've mentioned that a few times now. It's good that you have, like I, a healthy and continuing mistrust of government. Now: do you think that this flood control project hasn't been undertaken because politicians are allocating resources in a way that benefits certain contributing constituencies more than others...or because they are plotting to flood your area and sell boats to the public at marked-up prices?
But, we're spending $150 Billion to destroy and rebuild Iraq, so we can control their oil.
That's an opinion, stated as fact.
Our priorities are all screwed up.
Boy, you said it. Those who give the government a pass on their wasteful ways by engaging in conspiratorial flights of fancy are essentially handmaidens to the bureaucratic wrongdoing. Adding a sane bit of parsimony to the logical process would more expediently put the blame where it belongs.
LPS5
* "Secret," that is, to everyone but SI's major conspiracy theorists. |
