State of the Union

[*bfine32*]

(02-07-2019, 12:33 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Nothing smarter than wasting billions of dollars on wrapons we will never use.

The best offense is a good defense.

[Dill]

(02-07-2019, 11:41 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Wonder no longer. So we can applaud the Trump admin for working to correct this.....can't we?

Wait.  This bill dropped on Clinton's desk from where? No pre Clinton history?  Why would signing this bill be "moving to the center" if signed by Clinton?

Still wondering.

[fredtoast]

(02-07-2019, 11:42 PM)bfine32 Wrote: The best offense is a good defense.

The best defense is a treaty/agreement that saves both sides billions of dollars.

[fredtoast]

(02-07-2019, 10:03 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: True. But I guess it is only way we will learn, eh.

No.  The smart people have already figured it out without letting it happen.

Believe it or not I learned it was a bad idea to let my child play on the freeway without letting her do it and see what happened.

[Bengalzona]

(02-08-2019, 03:25 PM)fredtoast Wrote: No.  The smart people have already figured it out without letting it happen.

Believe it or not I learned it was a bad idea to let my child play on the freeway without letting her do it and see what happened.

Well after the Cold War, you would have thought that that was the way things would have gone. But here we are almost thirty years later facing another nuclear arms race with all of the treaties gone.

It just seems to me that this nuclear Armageddon thing is something people really want to do. So they might as well just get it out of their systems, eh.

[*bfine32*]

(02-08-2019, 03:22 PM)fredtoast Wrote: The best defense is a treaty/agreement that saves both sides billions of dollars.

Yep; that should do it. 

[GMDino]

(02-08-2019, 09:00 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: Well after the Cold War, you would have thought that that was the way things would have gone. But here we are almost thirty years later facing another nuclear arms race with all of the treaties gone.

It just seems to me that this nuclear Armageddon thing is something people really want to do. So they might as well just get it out of their systems, eh.

More than a few people would be quite happy.  But then they probably think THEY will survive somehow.

[Bengalzona]

(02-08-2019, 10:20 PM)GMDino Wrote: More than a few people would be quite happy.  But then they probably think THEY will survive somehow.

Well, that IS how it is in all the movies. Right?

Rugged individualists and their guns have to legally defend themselves and their kinfolk by shooting all of the other humans who are trying to steal all of their stuff.

I'm telling you, a lot of folks are already ready for this, my man!

[fredtoast]

(02-08-2019, 09:10 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Yep; that should do it. 

Pull your head out of the echo chamber, er, I mean "sand" and look at reality.

We have saved TRILLIONS of dollars since 1987 and there have been zero nuclear conflicts.

Trump is just wanting to use military spending to boost the economy.  I bet you have no idea how much this will cost us in tax dollars do you?  You just blindly support anything your Donald says.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/01/us/politics/trump-inf-nuclear-treaty.html



"The ambitions to remake the United States’ nuclear capabilities have accelerated under Mr. Trump.

For the next 10 years, the Congressional Budget Office said in January, the cost of nuclear upgrades has increased to $494 billion, or 87 times the amount Mr. Trump is seeking for his border wall. Over the next 30 years, the estimate is $1.2 trillion."