Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Qbasic Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 18:44:34 -0700 Organization: Wheeler&Wheeler Lines: 61 Message-ID: <87io0fffr1.fsf@garlic.com> References: <20160229002801@news.eternal-september.org> <9b1d6496-380c-4101-a3a7-6deefbb21d0c@googlegroups.com> <20160321163344@news.eternal-september.org> <1254891997.480298262.209801.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="9a6c8ce24fcd2caeb84dd64e0fa6007c"; logging-data="15720"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX181JtPAPSnhS1RgHSQj+tYAA9okeNXraYk=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:KkwOmbyOFJDtVRvim18WwwR0uEM= sha1:ltIrUbg0mkvsCnzr+OaMUrU2QsA= Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:161310 Peter Flass writes: > Spending on weapons creates jobs here in the USA. Great Society spending > transfers a lot of money to Drug cartels in Mexico and Columbia. It is the "too big to jail" that are responsible for the money laundering and moving money. Gov. has been repeatedly slapping the "too big to fail" for couple decades repeated "money laundering" for drug cartel and terrorists with repeated "deferred prosecutions" and trivial fines (compared to amounts involved, part of joke that it is just viewed as cost of doing criminal business). http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail The money laundering of the "too big to fail" for the drug cartels (and terrorists) is also credited for their ability to acquire large amounts of military grade arms http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering same "too big to fail" behind the over $27T in (toxic) CDOs 2001-2008 ... and the economic mess last decade http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo Eisenhower's Military-Industrial Complex warning speech http://www.npr.org/2011/01/17/132942244/ikes-warning-of-military-expansion-50-years-later and his "chance for peace speech" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chance_for_Peace_speech Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.[1][5] ... snip ... posts http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex there was some expectation that after the demise of soviet union there would be a "peace dividend" ... that it would be possible to reduce the feeding of the MICC ... but they managed to continually increase the amount (and there are trillions that nobody seems to know where it went). One of Colonel John Boyd quotes: "People say the Pentagon does not have a strategy. They are wrong. The Pentagon does have a strategy; it is: Don't interrupt the money flow, add to it." ... snip ... -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970