Warren Buffett Says America Is "So Rich" It Can Afford Single Payer

[sle]

Enjoy your hamburger. (Some of the ag money goes to saving the world from prions. A prion is the scariest damned thing ever to evolve from the primordial goo. Don't believe me? Look it up.)

Well, considering that number of people that died from prion exposure of all kinds is ... 1-2 people per million and most of it from Creutzfeldt-Jakob (https://goo.gl/rfDEGx).

PS. There are plenty of other orphan illnesses with the same occurrence that receive close to zero funding.

 

[sle]

@sle, what about the economic damage? IIRC Bin Laden was intentionally targeting the financial centers in NYC to precipitate an economic collapse.

Is it worth 4.8 trillion dollars in spending? Sounds like a pretty expensive option to me.

We're venturing into the land of what ifs but suppose one of these terrorist organizations procured a nuclear weapon? Just a contra point.

Have they? Most of them have been around for many years, yet their attacks are very low tech (albeit sometimes high concept, like the 9/11).

 

[sss12]

Hmm, really? Do the math yourself:

1. number of Americans that have died from terror attacks from 1975 to 2017: 3,024 (https://goo.gl/Sozrxt)
2. amount of money the US has spent on the War On Terror since 2001: 4,79 trillion (*)(https://goo.gl/z1d2ZU)

That amounts to some 7 people per year. At the same time road fatalities kill 300+ thousand people every year in the US (https://goo.gl/yRdns4). Cardiovascular problems kill 630 thousand Americans per year (https://goo.gl/VJI9G2). How much do you think is spent on each issue?

Would you say that spending money on terrorism is a prudent decision?

Come on ..do you think that current cost per death is a prudent way to illustrate/project the future cost of the end goals of terrorist groups and their agendas if they are not thwarted?

 

[sle]

Come on ..do you think that current cost per death is a prudent way illustrate/project the future cost of the end goals of terrorist groups and their agendas if they are no thwarted?

Yeah, of course it is. We spend more than we should. More importantly, we give them a lot of attention and that's exactly what they crave.

 

[Gambit]

Is it worth 4.8 trillion dollars in spending? Sounds like a pretty expensive option to me.


Have they? Most of them have been around for many years, yet their attacks are very low tech (albeit sometimes high concept, like the 9/11).

TlDr; Leave the Middle East, focus on domestic energy options including drilling in Anwar, build alternative energy tech for the future.

I'll be candid about my political opinions. The U.S. record in the middle east is abysmal, stretching back into the 70s. There is no clear victory to be had there. The real solution is to withdraw from the solution and focus on domestic sources of energy even if it means drilling in Anwar. And the reason I say that is the environmental damage caused by the Iraq war is catastrophic. Think of all those oil wells that Saddam ignited.
Once a strategic withdrawal is implemented, the passions that fuel terrorism may diminish with time. And we must not keep military bases in Saudi Arabia. Let the Saudis fend for themselves. They have the money.
And finally, focus on alternative energy sources for the future. But with the present policy? That spending is a must. The threat of another 9/11 or something worse is always on the horizon.

 

[sss12]

Yeah, of course it is. We spend more than we should. More importantly, we give them a lot of attention and that's exactly what they crave.

Wow, totally disagree. Some of the bad guys have much larger ambitions than just getting attention and are not the JV, as our apologetic past Pres thought.

 

[Gambit]

Wow, totally disagree. Some of the bad guys have much larger ambitions than just getting attention and are not the JV as our apologetic past Pres thought.

There's always a cost to running an Empire.

 

[Overnight]

Would you say that spending money on terrorism is a prudent decision?

Yes, I would. I'm going to give you a pass on this, because you are either

A. Clueless because of your age.

B. Clueless because of your ignorance of the world's situation.

C. Just insensitive to the world and what the heck goes on.

Go ahead and whine about funding to fight terrorism, and how it is all a waste.

If only you were there on Sep 11, 2001. Please. Don't spout shit about something you have no clue about, statistics be damned. You'd sing a different tune IF YOU WERE THERE.

 

[sss12]

TlDr; Leave the Middle East, focus on domestic energy options including drilling in Anwar, build alternative energy tech for the future.

I'll be candid about my political opinions. The U.S. record in the middle east is abysmal, stretching back into the 70s. There is no clear victory to be had there. The real solution is to withdraw from the solution and focus on domestic sources of energy even if it means drilling in Anwar. And the reason I say that is the environmental damage caused by the Iraq war is catastrophic. Think of all those oil wells that Saddam ignited.
Once a strategic withdrawal is implemented, the passions that fuel terrorism may diminish with time. And we must not keep military bases in Saudi Arabia. Let the Saudis fend for themselves. They have the money.
And finally, focus on alternative energy sources for the future. But with the present policy? That spending is a must. The threat of another 9/11 or something worse is always on the horizon.

We are already a net exporter of oil.....

 

[sle]

Wow, totally disagree. Some of the bad guys have much larger ambitions than just getting attention and are not the JV, as our apologetic past Pres thought.

There are guys on Randalls Island that have grand ambitions. It’s the ability to implement those ambitions that counts and they were not very successful over many many years.

If only you were there on Sep 11, 2001. Please. Don't spout shit about something you have no clue about, statistics be damned. You'd sing a different tune IF YOU WERE THERE.

I was in the NYC. I was watching the towers burn from the Bear Steans trading floor in midtown Manhattan. A bunch of my friends died in the South Tower. So when I “spout shit” I know fair and well what I am talking about. The political establishment used this tragedy to rob us blind.