Republicans disdainful of the unemployed

[Black Aeronaut]

Ayiekie wrote:

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Uh, I look askance on the supposed necessity to subsidise the hell out of FarmerClemCorp every time it comes whining to the government with straw cap in hand as much as the next guy, but did you actually just argue that spending a trillion dollars on making things to blow up Iraqis was a sensible investment in comparison to wasteful, unnecessary farm grants?

Not like you are.  The issue is that Bush got us into this mess and now we gotta dig ourselves out.  And yes, that means making guns, bullets, and bombs to kill people that would very much like to kill us just because someone told them their holy book said so.  It also means building schools, hospitals, roads, powerlines, bridges, and pipelines to help them get back on their feet again.  That shit gets expensive, especially when you gotta start all over again from scratch.  (The Taliban - bringing life back to the Bronze Age so you can effectively rule with your AK-47s!)
Though really, if you want to know who I think should be getting just as much money, it should be teachers, police, and emergency services people.  But you know how that goes.  Far easier to bitch about false-fronts claiming farming grants and other similar shit.  Trust me, there's even a book on this.
Hell, even Military spending... good lord, who the hell gets this money?  A valve block for my ship's automated gun costs as much as a house, and that's after the defective unit is returned!  (Parts for the Vertical Launch Sytem are even worse.  "Ah, that little bolt costs about fifty dollars.  That special wrench that will only fit that bolt costs about five-hundred.")  I don't know who the real villain is: the contractors for browbeating senators into letting them get away with this kind of price gouging or the Senators for allowing that to happen!
There's a lot of wasteful spending going on.  The real problem is that the beauracractic jungle is so thick that you'd never get to fix them all.  Every time you reform something, another something goes crooked.  (-.-
EDIT: BTW, this is how terrorism ought to be fought... cost effective and economical as you please.  Too bad the UN would freak out over it.