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Re:Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama by moron4hire on Friday September 18, 2015 @11:04AM (#10239586)
Yeah, if we just stopped burning dollars by the cargoship load on a "war" with no defined goals, then we could probably afford to do whatever the hell we wanted on every other project going on in the country.
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Re:Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama by orbifold on Saturday September 19, 2015 @09:19AM (#10244208)
The money isn't burned, it is used to stimulate the economy and keep people in the military industrial complex employed.
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Re:Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama by moron4hire on Saturday September 19, 2015 @04:23PM (#10245437)
No, the labor, application of skill, and physical resources that the money represents literally gets blown up. We have bridges falling down, not enough roads, the highest healthcare costs in the developed world, and we're spending money on bombs.
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