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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries

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To: Slagle who wrote (64111)	5/23/2005 3:13:41 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) of 74559

>>Here in this country, unlike anywhere else on earth, the people have vastly more firepower than the national government.<< Wrong. The US federal government controls an extremely well-armed military with lots of tanks, cluster bombs, artillery, and nuclear weapons etc. OTOH, there are plenty of other countries where central government control has collapsed, and well-armed gunmen run amuck. Think Somalia, Columbia, Iraq, etc. >>Power here is diffuse and very local. Each state is a little country or kingdom with its own political dynamic and indeed its own standing army in the form of a state militia or national guard.<< Wrong. The Feds finance and control the National Guard, much of which is currently either on duty in Iraq or preparing to go there. The governors are reduced to humble begging when they want the Guardsmen back for local stuff like fighting forest fires.

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