JDG wrote: >Nick Arnett wrote: >> A while ago, somebody said "This country isn't at war, only our >> military is at war." I think that was profound. It bugs the heck >>out of me, to put it mildly, that our leaders ask no one except the >>troops to make sacrifices for the current wars. > >What is "huge profits"? Is there some level of profits for these >companies that you would accept as not being "huge"?
I'm normally loath to speak for other listmembers, but I think you may have missed Nick's point, John. There's no sense of shared sacrifice in this Iraq war; we're cutting taxes while spending extra money on fighting. We're not being asked to sacrifice anything. And if you don't ask people to sacrifice, there's few that will. And I would think regardless of one's ideology that reducing your income while increasing your expenses just wouldn't make sense. It seems like buying a bigger house after getting a pay cut to me. Jim _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
