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Remind me again how much surplus money did US have to fight wars in Iraq ? Please tell me that US is overflowing with so much money that they have an army stati

by tn13 12y ago

Remind me again how much surplus money did US have to fight wars in Iraq ? Please tell me that US is overflowing with so much money that they have an army stationed in Germany for absolutely no rational reason. Why exactly is US spending so much of higher education when most of the public elementary education is good enough to mass produce kids whose only skill is flipping burgers ? Large nations need to allocate money to all problems proportional to the seriousness of the problem. We have learned how to live with less. My classrooms did not have even a bulb. Did not prevent me from getting good education. My village did not have any water pipeline and we figured out how to survive.

chc 12y ago
The fact that the US wastes huge wads of money doesn't exactly convince me that wasting money is a good idea. The US does lots of things that are questionable at best.
- tn13 12y ago
  That was not really my point. What people need to understand is that each nation gives certain priority of all the problems and accordingly invests money into those problems. Saying that spending money on X is a waste when you have problem Y unsolved is stupid. India has 1/6th of world population and has very good reason to invest in space research. India is going to needs its own satellite guided missiles, ASAT, GPS and other systems down the line if those 1.2B people have to see a good future. Or these people will be held hostage to USA's Military Industrial Complex. India was already one of the largest Shipbuilding nation and had more Aircraft maintenance centers than most other countries in 1950s. India did not invest well into these industries, today our defense imports are obscene. We cant even manufacture a reliable pistol leave alone mortar. Had we invested in those tech also we could have saved a lot more money today which could have helped the poor.
thisGuysAccount 12y ago
"Why exactly is US spending so much of higher education when most of the public elementary education is good enough to mass produce kids whose only skill is flipping burgers ?" I'm not sure what point you're trying to make about 13 year olds, but I assure you I don't care what you have to say.
- tn13 12y ago
  Just empty rhetoric.

by tn13 12y ago

chc 12y ago

The fact that the US wastes huge wads of money doesn't exactly convince me that wasting money is a good idea. The US does lots of things that are questionable at best.

tn13 12y ago
That was not really my point. What people need to understand is that each nation gives certain priority of all the problems and accordingly invests money into those problems. Saying that spending money on X is a waste when you have problem Y unsolved is stupid. India has 1/6th of world population and has very good reason to invest in space research. India is going to needs its own satellite guided missiles, ASAT, GPS and other systems down the line if those 1.2B people have to see a good future. Or these people will be held hostage to USA's Military Industrial Complex. India was already one of the largest Shipbuilding nation and had more Aircraft maintenance centers than most other countries in 1950s. India did not invest well into these industries, today our defense imports are obscene. We cant even manufacture a reliable pistol leave alone mortar. Had we invested in those tech also we could have saved a lot more money today which could have helped the poor.

thisGuysAccount 12y ago

"Why exactly is US spending so much of higher education when most of the public elementary education is good enough to mass produce kids whose only skill is flipping burgers ?" I'm not sure what point you're trying to make about 13 year olds, but I assure you I don't care what you have to say.

tn13 12y ago
Just empty rhetoric.