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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (731148)8/6/2013 3:05:06 AM
From: SilentZ  Read Replies (2) of 1574856
 
>When the oh-so-harsh sequester is just 2-3% of the budget, one tenth of a percent is actually pretty significant.

>I know you don't want to defend aid to Egypt on the basis of it being "stimulus" for our military industrial complex. Nice try, though.

Not really. Foreign aid doesn't have nearly the domestic economic impact of spending at home. Even if it did, if as lots of economists say, that 2-3% of the budget takes what would otherwise be 6% unemployment and makes it 7.5% (rough numbers there), then all spending being equal, withholding that spending might make unemployment something like 7.52%. But that's assuming all spending is equal. It isn't.

>Once again, you're just tossing up distractions.

Am I? We've got quite the history of flinging bombs. I don't know why the assertion that a President from a party that sings "Bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran" wouldn't fling bombs a bit more freely than the guy who beat him.

>Few people think we can solve Egypt's problems via the leverage we hold with the aid.

You seemed to assert that we could. You were the one who wanted to take it away.

>Plus that wasn't the original purpose of the aid anyway.

We agree on that.

>No one is talking about flinging bombs in Egypt. Not even the most warmongering of Republicans.

Then what's the solution?

>This is a clear case where inaction is not the best action to take

Once again, give me the action.

-Z
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