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Non-Tech : Kirk's Market Thoughts -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: w0z who wrote (11778)	8/23/2021 10:46:14 AM
From: Kirk ©	Respond to of 26834

I can't figure out how we get any more than 1% or $1 of value for each $100 spent on taxes. Trump got $57B EXTRA to "defend" us with higher military spending but we had more killed by COVID-19 than in all the wars... I won't even go into the current "Walking Dead" stooge's donation of US technology to the Taliban in Afghanistan. I really don't understand why there are so many flawed trials (this is not the first I've heard of that omitted zinc). If he had spent half that amount to get us prepared with PPE, testing, trained contact tracing teams, rapid antibody testing teams to go where viruses show to see how many have it and survive with light or moderate symptoms so we can see what is in their blood to replicate.... yadda yadda yadda.... A REAL defense department for something that DID invade our shores... Arnold "The Governator" had California mildly prepared for this but his moderate democrat successor, Jerry Brown, let the program die prefering to fund pensions that despite the massive stock market gains, remain under funded. I think they gave away all the stockpiled PPE while still getting the same money but using it for something else. Clearly, some people thought it was something to plan for... but bombs, jets, tanks, etc. are far more profitable with little competition to keep costs down than spending on hospital supplies thus the Arms Dealers continued to get wealthy sucking at the taxpayers teat. IF the government had made money available for these types of tests... there probably would have been more of them.