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Originally posted by Spanky
This conservative angle is total BS. The number one responsiblity of the Federal Government is national secuirty, and there is no more immediate and real threat to national security that nuclear missiles. It is just a matter of time before a rogue state develops the capability to launch a nuclear weapon, or some other WMD, at the United States. North Korea my have that capability. If North Korea decided right now to say that the United State give it a hundred billion dollars or they will launch we would be in a really screwed situation. There is no question that eventually a system could be made to work. It is just a matter of resources and effort. Can you really put a price tag on Los Angeles, San Diego or San Francisco? Every proposal for research and spending on missile defense should get 100 percent vote of the house and senate. Anyone that is against spending on SDI, or wants to reduce, is a moron. Plain and simple.
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I've found that many SDI proponents seem to place a touching yet fervent faith in the idea that a nuclear warhead will arrive via the skies, just like it said in Revelations, but those orgasmic dreams of apocalypse averted never seem to contemplate, in this age of car bombs and airplane bombs, the possibility that said warhead may arrive on a fucking boat.
In this age of unlimited government spending, I'm as happy to pour borrowed taxpayer dollars down a rathole as anyone else. Us morons simply ask that equivalent increases be dedicated to Coast Guard and port security.
