Reply #11: I think you hit it on the head - [View All]

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the outcome is grim, as you say. But Bush and Cheney do not care. They just plod grimly on.

There's another word for this: suicide. You have to wonder: at what point does a select industry, (in this case the military industrial complex), allow spending to go to such an extreme that it threatens the entire economy?

Isn't there some kind of self-regulating mechanism? Or would the military contracts just mushroom themselves so they absorb the entire domestic economy? You have to wonder about that. Because even a tapeworm knows when to stop. If it drains too much nourishment from its host, the host dies and the tapeworm dies as well.

If that's true, then the system is self-destructing. We have historical examples! Lots of them.

And yet.....it's hard to believe that it's going to happen to us.

PS I really enjoy reading your posts! Have for a long time (I assume you're a writer).