Why We Should All Fear Government

isobars · Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20936

MANY people here have raised hell for years about the toxic waste dump at Hanford, on the Columbia, put there in the 1940s in our frantic haste to beat the enemy to the atomic bomb. They seem to overlook completely the 18,400 airmen who died as a matter of policy in the months leading up to D Day, June 6, 1944. We were sending thousands of bombers at Germany without valid targets for one sole purpose: attract aerial attacks from Luftwaffe fighters so our new fighters could weaken the Luftwaffe before D Day. Results: decimation of the Luftwaffe contributed to our successful invasion, in a deliberate exchange for hundreds of our airmen killed each day of those last 90 days pre-invasion.

The same tradeoff occurs to this day, to a lesser numerical extent, by design. "Top Gun", and aerial warfare training in general, were deliberately designed to become much more dangerous following Viet Nam, when the Pentagon realized that more realistic peacetime training saves lives in combat. In short, more crashes in Nevada = fewer combat losses.

Pollution, my ass. Learn some history and get some perspective.

Without Hanford, or even if we had just been more diligent with the waste, we may have lost WWII, and none of that pollution would matter. The waste arguably served a purpose back then. Its continuing threat is due to decades of incompetence at the top levels of the DOE.

isobars · Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20936

keycocker · Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 3598

Defense 22% of the budget. Welfare, including Iso monthly check is 10%, but is rising.
Most welfare 80% goes to children and the disabled or elderly.

pueno · Joined: 03 Mar 2007 Posts: 2807

nw30 · Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2014 7:43 pm Post subject:

Children don't receive welfare checks, their parents, or should I say their mothers (on most part) do, you have no idea how that money is spent, as do I.

MalibuGuru · Joined: 11 Nov 1993 Posts: 9300

Obama vs Putin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTNrWTRSuI0

pueno · Joined: 03 Mar 2007 Posts: 2807

keycocker · Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 3598

I have a good idea how that money was spent by the hundred or so welfare families who have rented our sec 8 homes.
They buy schoolbooks and lunch money and all the things I buy every day.
One of our homes houses a old couple who was once homeless. They spend it on food for other homeless when they can.

keycocker · Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 3598

Our non welfare lower middle class tenants included drug addled drunken rednecks who listen to talk radio all day turned up loud. They drive new cars or pickups they can't afford that get repossessed.
And expensive gun collections.
Often unemployed.
Sometimes dead drunk when they drop off the rent check late.
One family thought my wife was Belizean not French and went on for ten minutes about traitorous Frogs being like n-/:;gers before the invasion of Iraq.

Talk radio hosts have these two groups confused.

If you were a loser before you went on welfare you will be a loser afterwards.
If you were a reasonable person before you accepted welfare, you are still that person after.
Same as non welfare.
Most people on welfare are probably conservatives from the poor southern GOP states.
Can't prove this since are no figures showing political affiliation of recipients but the GOP states dominate the welfare rolls.