04-19-2012, 08:15 PM
(04-14-2012, 01:40 PM)Cracker Wrote: Welfare benefits people who don't/won't work. Defense benefits everybody. Do you really want a weak country that panders to the poor and unmotivated? I don't.
That has to be one of the most meaningless statements ever uttered.
Here's someone who, unlike you, actually knew what they were talking about.
Quote:"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents."
Major General Smedley D. Butler, USMC
Here's his book, War is a Racket, for anyone interested in what a real hero has to say.
http://www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com/racket1.html
http://www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com/racket2.html
http://www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com/racket3.html
http://www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com/racket4.html
http://www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com/racket5.html