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Originally posted by Gattigap
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.
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No it doesn't. That is a really stupid comment. That is like saying that because I take precautions against getting skin cancer that I don't think I can get a heart attack.
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Originally posted by Gattigap 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.
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China has about 100 ICBS. North Korea may have a few. The United States has committed ourselves to protecting Taiwan and South Korea. Is it so hard to imagine that either of these committments might gets us involved in a War? And in such a war the enemy might try and hurt us?
I pay a lot of money in Federal Taxes and I don't see much of a return. I don't benefit from Medicaid or Social Secuirty or any of the other transfer payments. I can't really think of a more important thing the Federal government could do for me (save stopping terrorists coming into this country) than protecting me from an incoming missile.
