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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (222636)3/7/2005 5:31:34 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1575422
 
How temporary? Vietnam ran I believe for 12 years.

Which is temporary, and the most intense period of the Vietnam war was only part of those 12 years.

I thought we were talking about the war in Iraq.

Social Security and Medicare are projected to just keep growing. The increase in expenses it not something for a few years or a decade or even two.

That is not what calculations show. At worse, those costs will level off eventually; at best, decline slightly. Think of it as a new war.........the war on retirement. Like with Iraq, we will have to allocate additional budget resources. It may put off Star Wars but what the hell.......most of the world is going democratic thanks to Bush so we won't need it.

That's 3-4K more deaths and 10s of thousands more who are maimed.

That is based on speculation laid on top of speculation. Your assuming active battle for the next 3 to 5 years with American casualtee rates as high or higher than they are now. I don't think that is likely. But even if it does happen, and even if we do spend a few more hundreds of billions of dollars, it doesn't change the fact that it is a temporary increase while entitlement spending shows little sign of stopping its continual move upward.

No, its based on the advice of experts coupled with past experience.

Sorry, Tim, but I prefer butter to contrived wars.

ted
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