tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3618251552397105721.post6215884037894652415..comments2023-09-17T09:23:44.300-04:00Comments on Wake up people: The EconomyDanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13604667677871454173noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3618251552397105721.post-74300625615248004822008-09-07T20:16:00.000-04:002008-09-07T20:16:00.000-04:00Hey, thanks you two for posting as always.The ques...Hey, thanks you two for posting as always.<BR/><BR/>The question is how much self sufficiency is good and how much is actually feasible.<BR/><BR/>Total self relience is good. If you rely on any other country, then you can be controled by that country.<BR/><BR/>How much can we actually achieve? Right now, not much. Until the people of this nation make their voices heard. <BR/><BR/>Anyone here ever heard of thermal-depolymerization? look it up. google it. It is a way that we can convert every peice of organic waste that we create into light crude oil. And it runs at about 85-90% efficiency right now. With advancments, we could acieve 100% efficiency. This means that we could provide every ounce of gasoline and deisel fuel that this country needs to keep us on the roads.<BR/><BR/>Our military can remain strong if we were as resilient as we once were. The problem is that, new weapons are not the major cost of our war economy.....war is. It costs us a trillion dollars a year to run the military machine, yet in 5 years we have overspent that by 6 trillion because of these two wars we are in.<BR/><BR/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Debt_to_GDP_Forecast_Chart.png<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>I am talking of what we could make possible if we used the war spending money. Not the military budget. <BR/><BR/>We all need to grab ourselves by the boot straps and decide if we want to remain a super power or slowley crumble under our own corruption and overspending.<BR/><BR/>DanDanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13604667677871454173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3618251552397105721.post-70841727367764618042008-09-06T22:25:00.000-04:002008-09-06T22:25:00.000-04:00Ok, I get that we have to maintain our military, k...Ok, I get that we have to maintain our military, keeping it ahead of the rest. Why do you think it is that our countries war economy seems to have no leanings to our self sufficiency as a nation? I don't get it. I don't see any reason, in this day and age,(with such a large, resource filled country)that we are so dependent on other countries. Maybe if our politicians hadn't been knocked up by the cash of other countries, our economy wouldn't be in the toilet. Mr. Bush was the first sitting president EVER, to attend an Olympic Games outside the US. <BR/><BR/>CHINA. The country that has us *cough cough* by the balls. What other communist country, with such a horrific human rights record, have we given such a cushy trade agreement? Oh that's right NO ONE!<BR/><BR/>Anyone noticed the price of scrap has gone through the roof? China is buying every bit they can get out of us, using it to build up there own infrastructure as ours crumbles around us. <BR/> <BR/>This trip to the olympics just further illustrates what excellent puppeteers the chinese are. <BR/>woah, that went a little off point, lol. <BR/>I guess what I'm trying to say rich is, why can't this war economy benefit more then just the military? <BR/><BR/>sarahAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3618251552397105721.post-90097588443891666742008-09-03T16:48:00.000-04:002008-09-03T16:48:00.000-04:00So my concern is what happens to us if we stray aw...So my concern is what happens to us if we stray away from a war economy. Do we become stagnant to the point someone else surpasses us? Without a war, military advances do not take place here and then someone else surpasses us. After the "Cold War" was over, people immediately cut back the military budget. Actors (I believe Tim Allen was one of them) protested for the submarine force to go away. I fully believe we need a strong military and we only prove time after time as a society that we need emotional motivation to support a military budget. This, of course, is a result of our society not understanding ANYTHING (yay for the public education system). <BR/>Now I do agree, once again, that the similarities between Hitler's time and the present is disgustingly eerie. It's unreal to wake up one day and realize what's going on and that you are in the minority as being informed. Keep up the good work, Dan, and I'll pas peeps on to this site.<BR/><BR/>RichAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3618251552397105721.post-37576678928809301432008-09-03T15:22:00.000-04:002008-09-03T15:22:00.000-04:00The amount of 573 billion is enough money to buy e...The amount of 573 billion is enough money to buy every citizen of NJ 4- Toyota Yaris cars, with the fancy package, hahahaha<BR/><BR/>We all need 4 cars right?<BR/><BR/><BR/>just me again<BR/>sarahAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3618251552397105721.post-24840964684545369412008-09-03T15:20:00.000-04:002008-09-03T15:20:00.000-04:00hey againOur countries "war" economy is something ...hey again<BR/><BR/>Our countries "war" economy is something my grandfather tried to explain to me awhile back, but I'm just fully grasping it now. <BR/>Wouldn't it be awesome if our government put the same zealous effort into our economy, without thinking of war. The plan you describe here, devised by the nazi regime, has some idea's that, I think, we would do well to employ.<BR/><BR/>Self-Sufficiency is a beautiful thing!<BR/><BR/>"Imports were reduced to the bare minimum, severe price and wage controls were introduced, dividends restricted to 6 per cent, great factories set up to make synthetic rubber, textiles, fuel and other products from Germany's own sources of raw materials, and a giant Hermann Goering Works established to make steel out of the local low-grade ore."<BR/><BR/>Less the severe price and wage controls, and dividend restriction,<BR/>this ideas would do our country well. <BR/><BR/>When I looked yesterday, the debt for the current action is $573 billion +.<BR/><BR/>The million uses for the large an amount of money is mind boggling.<BR/>I can't even begin to narrow it down. Medical research is a great thought, but I'm not sure I believe in government funding for medical research. The government tends to fund diseases that drug companies want to do research on. So the the companies can gauge us at the cash register later. The government looks good funding big things like cancer, aids, heart disease. I dont like the idea of my money being spent on research for the disease of someone elses choosing. Maybe I want to do research on Schizophrenia, or hemophilia, or athletes foot, lol. <BR/><BR/>At any rate, Might the best thing to do with that money is not spend it at all? I'm sure we had some debt before this current BS started, but I guess when the value of our dollar is spiraling down, $573 billion isn't really that big of a deal.<BR/><BR/>sarahAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com