Everyone Rebrand Defense Spending As Stimulative!

Another War perhaps? Just Blindfold the president and and get him to stick a pin in a map of the world then look through Cheney's little book of reasons to attack and off we we go. Don't worry Guys we will be right behind you here in the UK, our economies down the crapper as well. What better way to stimulate the economy than to make lots of things that with any luck will get blown up. Better than those bridges, roads and schools, they could be around for a very long time.

Lockheed Martin is one of Chambliss' biggest campaign contributors. As such anything he says on this matter is tainted with self interest. For example, he claims that 95,000 jobs are on the line. It's not as if Lockheed Martin is going to go out of business if we quit making F-22's.

He is correct that if our only goal was to quickly stimulate our economy, the production of bombs and military equipment would be an efficient method. However, when we “invest” in weapons produciton the end product of that “investment” is the creation of a product that destroys capital (usually other people's capital).

I think I would rather pay taxes for new fighter jets than for bowling alleys and furniture production. When the terrorists come to take us own because Obama let them know we are totally unwilling to fight, just to talk, I think the fighters might give us a better fighting chance to defend our country than hitting the jihaddists over the head with a green table leg.

Rufus exemplifies the kind of stupid that's ruled us for way too long. Right now, “the terrorists” have “come over here” with “box cutters,” weapons against which “bowling pins” would be far more “effective” than “fighter jets.”

As the heroes on Flight 93 proved.

Come on, Republicans, stop being so stupid. I don't want you to die out completely with all this stupidity and live in a one party state. That's where you're heading.

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Saxby never stunned anybody with his brilliance. I guess he wants to keep his title as stupidest member of Congress…..

“when the terrorists come to take us (d)own” what?…whatever their ultimate goal a F-22 raptor isn't going to make their job any more difficult…'damn if only they did have those billion dollar super jets our plans would be fool proof”

As a retired AF officer who has served/fought in action against everything from large enemy AF's to terrorists to flying cover for peacekeeping as well as the UN, I must waive the TOTAL BS flag! F-22s are as necessary as nuke subs, HUMVEEs and bullet-proof vests. Stop engaging in THIS WAR MYOPIA!! We MUST INVEST in modernizing all of the military to defend us against danger in the entire spectrum of potential conflict. The F-22 and its brother the F-35 will deter and if necessary win a conventional conflict and prevent those conflicts from going nuclear. Your jobs argument is BS too. The workers are exercising their 1st Amendment right to petition the government . Our nation's AF needs 60-200 more F-22s and over 30 campaign studies validate that requirement. Spew your anti-military venom if you will, but the uniformed military needs the new equipment (AF and Navy) since they sacrificed much of that modernization to fight the current 2 wars. Let's not repeat the huge mistakes of the post-VietNam era.

As a retired AF officer who has served/fought in action against everything from large enemy AF's to terrorists to flying cover for peacekeeping as well as the UN, I must waive the TOTAL BS flag! F-22s are as necessary as nuke subs, HUMVEEs and bullet-proof vests. Stop engaging in THIS WAR MYOPIA!! We MUST INVEST in modernizing all of the military to defend us against danger in the entire spectrum of potential conflict. The F-22 and its brother the F-35 will deter and if necessary win a conventional conflict and prevent those conflicts from going nuclear. Your jobs argument is BS too. The workers are exercising their 1st Amendment right to petition the government . Our nation's AF needs 60-200 more F-22s and over 30 campaign studies validate that requirement. Spew your anti-military venom if you will, but the uniformed military needs the new equipment (AF and Navy) since they sacrificed much of that modernization to fight the current 2 wars. Let's not repeat the huge mistakes of the post-VietNam era.

[...] for ways to trim the budget. The F-22 is not being used in the 2 hot wars currently underway but lawmakers are pointing out that the program is responsible for 95,000 jobs. So should we build something that we might not [...]

[...] Well listen, the jobs are important any time, whether you’re in a fiscal crisis or not. But now, when we’re in these very difficult times, certainly it’s even more important. I’ve been an advocate not just of spending more money but on – when it comes to stimulating the economy, there’s no better way to do it than to spend it in the defense community. The Washington Independent Everyone Rebrand Defense Spending As Stimulative! [...]

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