06-25-2003, 01:43 PM
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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
This is an inevitable result of defense contracting. Even absent the current war, this can occur. Companies get sold all the time -- and the market for defense needs, just like any market, will have inescapable ebbs and flows. The only way to escape it is to de-privatize defense contracting, and that ain't gonna happen.
If Reagan had not bloated defense spending to begin with, the cuts of the 90s would not have been "cuts," now would they?
Nope but then we would probably still be fighting the cold war and have global thermonuclear destruction as a very real possibility..ahh well good with the bad.
So, both the libs and conservs, dems and repugs, sheeple and warhawks have ample ammunition to blame each other.
How's this for a thought: why didn't the government villify the Swiss as it did the French?? Might it be strong banking ties to the Swiss by those in power in DC? [img]graemlins/1ponder.gif[/img] Besides, I'd think we have enough back-stock of these parts to withstand one Swiss rant-fest or two.
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Want to bet TL that they don't villify the Swiss but instead cancel all their defense contracts and award them elsewhere? betchya a dollar [img]smile.gif[/img]
[ 06-25-2003, 01:44 PM: Message edited by: MagiK ]
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