Since WW II, our military budget has grown INTO being the largest.......it didn't start out that way.
It didn't start out that way at the beginning of the country, or even the begining of WWII or our entry in to it in 1941. But in 1944 and most years since (maybe every year since, but its possible that the USSR may have spent more for some of the years in between WWII and Korea)
During the war, Germany, Japan, and Russia were spending far more than the US. Remember they had been fighting for three years before we entered the war. After WW II ended, most of the factories set up for war production were dismantled. However, out of the war emerge some defense industries.......companies like Lockheed, Boeing, General Dynamics etc. Those companies were relatively small at first but began to grow and develop new industries. The current military industrial complex bares little resemblance to the operation that went on during WW II.
Its after WWII that the military defense complex that employs you and others grew by leaps and bounds.
No it was DURING WWII when it grew by leaps and bounds.
Nope, it grew during the war and then was mostly dismantled for peacetime goods....see above.
Not having one suggests a rightwing slant.
Not at all, and even if it did "a rightwing slant" is not "a move to the right".
Every effort to get universal health care has been thwarted by the right.
Again even if we accept your premises they don't lead to the conclusion of a strong move to the right.
Yes, I know Tim......we were already too far right.
Not only is "less socialist/liberal/progressive than Europe" different from "has moved to the right", but even if for the sake of argument I agreed (with the false statement) that a high CAFE is good for the community, "good for the community" is a different idea than "moved to the right".
Not at all.......what is good for a community usually means a move away from the right.
The Bush administration rolled back a number of environmental laws while in office. For an example, drilling and mining in national parks are now allowed. Snow mobiles are now allowed in national parks. There is a long list.
"Drilling NEAR national parks is now allowed.
Bush allows oil drilling on pristine Texas beach
By David Usborne in New York
Saturday, 23 November 2002
Environmentalists in the United States are again waging war with Republicans in Washington. This time the row is over a decision to allow an energy company to drill two gas wells in a coastal national park in Texas that is home to the world's most endangered species of sea turtle.
The federal government is to grant approval to BNP Petroleum to sink two wells in the Padre Island National Seashore, a barrier island on the Gulf of Mexico that features the longest stretch of undeveloped beach in the US."
independent.co.uk
Overall there are more environmental regulations and restrictions now than in the past. And not just some cherry picked moment in the past, but than 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000...
So? A number of them were reversed under Bush.....which is a move to right.
you can play semantics all you want but you know damn well what I am saying.
Your saying we've moved to the right, and then your making a bunch of points to back up that idea, most of which are wrong or at least debatable and almost all of which are irrelevant to your claim.
I disagree.....see above. |
