Unfortuneatly, it also doesnt work. There are at least two welfare level programs in the State of California where, in order to recieve aid, you must prove that you are still looking for work in the form of showing that youve filled out at least y number of job applications, and provide x number of hours of labor to the state. Most frequently, in Los Angeles, you get to pick up litter off the road sides. I know, because until Social Security finally decided that I really was flipping nuts enough to qualify as permenantly disabled I was part of that self same system.
So I've SEEN the system from the inside.
And as for your proposal, Ep... Cutting the 'weapons development programs'. They did that after WW one, for the most part. Look at what we reapt from that sewing at the start of WW 2. Now compare what happened when we did NOT. Operations Dessert Shield, Dessert Storm, Iraqui Freedom. Not to mention that 90% of that weapons development programs' are NOT blue sky projects like the more Star wars aspects of Regan's proposed Space Defense Initiative. AND are carried out by the private sector.
YOu've just shot yourself int he foot and put more people on the welfare rolls and ensured that the next people who think 'those guys arnt so tough' and want to pick a fight just might win.
that is a total lose lose lose result in my book Epsilon. You'll never convince me of that just like Akei is convinced that I'm not worth listending to because I spout 'right wing boilerplate'
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children
So I've SEEN the system from the inside.
And as for your proposal, Ep... Cutting the 'weapons development programs'. They did that after WW one, for the most part. Look at what we reapt from that sewing at the start of WW 2. Now compare what happened when we did NOT. Operations Dessert Shield, Dessert Storm, Iraqui Freedom. Not to mention that 90% of that weapons development programs' are NOT blue sky projects like the more Star wars aspects of Regan's proposed Space Defense Initiative. AND are carried out by the private sector.
YOu've just shot yourself int he foot and put more people on the welfare rolls and ensured that the next people who think 'those guys arnt so tough' and want to pick a fight just might win.
that is a total lose lose lose result in my book Epsilon. You'll never convince me of that just like Akei is convinced that I'm not worth listending to because I spout 'right wing boilerplate'
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children