From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Tue Aug 12 2003 - 14:53:20 MDT
Lee Corbin wrote:
> I urge everyone to carefully attend to Rafal's *economic* arguments.
> So far in perusing this thread, he appears to be the only one up
> on free-market economics, who understands thoroughly why protectionism
> always hurts everyone in the long run.
### Thank you, thank you! :-)
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>
>> If the money for the so-called "defense" shrinks, it's good.
>> The US machine for killing people is too big already.
>
> Okay, let's hear your tune if an A-bomb goes off in Newark
> tomorrow. I guessed at what many other people's reaction
> would be, but I didn't think to guess yours. My guess is
> that you would have an immediate and 180-degree attitude
> change.
### Well, probably not. A 600 000 000 000$ (no, I didn't confuse the number
of zeros) bill for Iraq, and a 500 000 000 000$ budget deficit (gosh, I love
to write out those zeros, feels like playing with the money Germans had
before the Nazis came. I have a genuine 50 000 000 000 Reichsmark banknote,
it's a beaut) are highly unlikely to reduce the risk of suitcase nukes going
off in Newark.
Although, since radiation exposure sometimes causes an IQ drop in the range
of 10 - 15 points (in cancer treatment), so a nuke so close could indeed
wreak havoc with my subtle reasoning :-)
Rafal
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