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Can America Afford Bernie Sanders' Agenda?
- WalterSear 11y agoIt doesn't need to: it just needs to be able to afford it as well as the current agenda -that we can't afford- to be a massive positive.
- shams93 11y agoYeah imagine if you completely shutdown the Pentagon, get rid of standing armies world wide there's a huge peace dividend waiting to transform the world for the positive.
- AnimalMuppet 11y agoYeah, but imagine if you completely get rid of standing armies only in the USA. There's a huge peace dividend for the USA, but also a huge vulnerability to anybody in the world who decides to keep their military and attack the USA. See, Sanders isn't running for president of the world. He doesn't get to disarm everybody else. If he wins, he only gets to run the USA. Everyone else keeps their own psychopaths and machiavellians and thugs that are running things.
- WalterSear 11y agoI wasn't aware he intended to disarm anyone.
- AnimalMuppet 11y agoI was replying to shams93, who said "get rid of standing armies worldwide". That plan - whether or not it's Sanders' plan - is impossible without first conquering the rest of the planet. Getting rid of standing armies in the USA - whether or not that's Sanders' plan - is a fairly bad idea if everyone else keeps their armies. That was my point.
- WalterSear 11y agoI'm don't think that necessary, and I am not aware that any of that is in Bernie's plan. That said, I don't think that it would necessarily be a bad idea, either. Or that we couldn't disband vast amounts of the politico-military-industrial complex and have a stronger military as a result.
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- Finnucane 11y agoI'm old enough to remember the talk of a 'peace dividend' after the end of the Cold War. Didn't really happen--we still maintain a globe-spanning empire.
- AnimalMuppet 11y agoYeah, we'll just print money to cover all that the government is spending, and it will hopefully all work out. We can print our way to prosperity![1] [1]: Your mileage may vary.