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Guns or Butter - US Economy
Posted by: Econ 101 ()
Date: July 25, 2012 02:43PM

So which is a better way to spend tax dollars?
Guns - Building weapons to take out terrorists and invade countries.

Butter - Saving lives, investing in farms\food inside the US and building US infrastructure.


I can see we need to invade other counrties and help build their infrastructure to better their countries, but if didn't invade their countries to start with then wouldn't terrorism go away.

Certainly improving inside the US make a lot sense but how can we determine which project make the most sense? Bridges, roads, now sources of energy?

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Re: Guns or Butter - US Economy
Posted by: donald t ()
Date: July 25, 2012 03:26PM

When you need to stop that stupid fuck in North Korea you will wish you had guns instead of butter. But in fairness we are paying to protect South Korea so let them pony up some money to keep us on the border.

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Re: Guns or Butter - US Economy
Posted by: meh ()
Date: July 25, 2012 03:34PM

that stupid fuck in north korea chose guns, now all of his people are starving and they still cant launch a rocket

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Re: Guns or Butter - US Economy
Posted by: WHEEEE!! ()
Date: July 25, 2012 03:56PM

"Butter" also means welfare programs for the lazy and
socially irresponsibile. Cut out the crap, keep the guns.

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Re: Guns or Butter - US Economy
Posted by: Malcomn XL ()
Date: July 25, 2012 04:00PM

Butter means exaclty welfare which only generates future dependency.

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Re: Guns or Butter - US Economy
Posted by: Silly ()
Date: July 25, 2012 04:14PM

Guns also mean defending your country.

Butter is not allowed in New Your City. That along with a soda that the government does not approve of will cause obesity.

By the way , you can win any argument (against yourself) as long as you define the terms your way in advance of the discussion.

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Re: Guns or Butter - US Economy
Posted by: You Have Cancer, Bye ()
Date: July 25, 2012 05:01PM

I'd say the world is changing and healthcare will be the next big issue of countries. People will be fighting over cures for diseases and cancer.

Let be realistic the biggest terrorist of Americans by far and biggest killer is cancer. We should be at war with cancer.

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Re: Guns or Butter - US Economy
Posted by: meh ()
Date: July 25, 2012 05:53PM

You Have Cancer, Bye Wrote:
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> I'd say the world is changing and healthcare will
> be the next big issue of countries. People will
> be fighting over cures for diseases and cancer.
>
> Let be realistic the biggest terrorist of
> Americans by far and biggest killer is cancer. We
> should be at war with cancer.


Heart disease is the number one killer in the US. We should be at war with obesity.


(if you didn't know, all cancers are different and there can't be a cure all for breast, prostate, skin, etc cancer)

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Re: Guns or Butter - US Economy
Posted by: nosuchthing ()
Date: July 25, 2012 05:57PM

meh Wrote:
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> You Have Cancer, Bye Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > I'd say the world is changing and healthcare
> will
> > be the next big issue of countries. People
> will
> > be fighting over cures for diseases and cancer.
> >
> > Let be realistic the biggest terrorist of
> > Americans by far and biggest killer is cancer.
> We
> > should be at war with cancer.
>
>
> Heart disease is the number one killer in the US.
> We should be at war with obesity.
>
>
> (if you didn't know, all cancers are different and
> there can't be a cure all for breast, prostate,
> skin, etc cancer)

There is no such think as a cure for cancer. Cancer is a runaway gene mutation. Each are different. As long as you have DNA you will have cancer. It is kinda like saying we need to find a cure for fire. But as long as you have o2, fule and heat, you will have fire.

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Re: Guns or Butter - US Economy
Posted by: Excitement ()
Date: July 25, 2012 06:58PM

meh Wrote:
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> You Have Cancer, Bye Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > I'd say the world is changing and healthcare
> will
> > be the next big issue of countries. People
> will
> > be fighting over cures for diseases and cancer.
> >
> > Let be realistic the biggest terrorist of
> > Americans by far and biggest killer is cancer.
> We
> > should be at war with cancer.
>
>
> Heart disease is the number one killer in the US.
> We should be at war with obesity.
>
>
> (if you didn't know, all cancers are different and
> there can't be a cure all for breast, prostate,
> skin, etc cancer)


Actually the world of cancer research and upcoming treatments are offering new hopes. New drugs are being approved that enable the immune system to attack and kill the cancer, unlike using radiation and chemo to kill the cells. Also, cancers are being reclassified by how they react to these new treatments rather than the tissue that the cancer is attacking (breast, prostate, skin, etc.). Some cancers in different geographic areas of the body actually act very similar when exposed to the new treatments.

Never say can't, we just need to think about the problem differently.

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Re: Guns or Butter - US Economy
Posted by: MrMephisto ()
Date: July 25, 2012 07:03PM

Curing cancer would hardly be profitable for the medical industry, though.

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Re: Guns or Butter - US Economy
Posted by: simple solutions ()
Date: July 25, 2012 08:02PM

When you have guns you can take all the butter you need.

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Re: Guns or Butter - US Economy
Posted by: Excitement ()
Date: July 25, 2012 09:04PM

MrMephisto Wrote:
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> Curing cancer would hardly be profitable for the
> medical industry, though.


Actually it would be. Initially preventing cancer would be profitabe and after that people will still need a way to die. Whatever that way is, the medical community will be there to try and prevent it. Remember we erradicated polio and no one complained that the iron lung manufacturers would not make a profit. Then later HIV amd AIDS came along and lots of money was given to that cause. No matter what we cure, people will still find a wAy to die.

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Re: Guns or Butter - US Economy
Posted by: Lester ()
Date: July 25, 2012 10:27PM

It's guns and butter, not guns or butter. You can't have warfare without workfare (other make-work projects besides national security) and welfare for those who can't do either.

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Re: Guns or Butter - US Economy
Posted by: eesh ()
Date: July 25, 2012 10:39PM

nosuchthing Wrote:
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> There is no such think as a cure for cancer.
> Cancer is a runaway gene mutation. Each are
> different. As long as you have DNA you will have
> cancer.





Wow, what a dumb posting. I think you need to read up on cancer before making comments like this.

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Re: Guns or Butter - US Economy
Posted by: Freedom4America ()
Date: July 26, 2012 04:06PM

simple solutions Wrote:
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> When you have guns you can take all the butter you
> need.

And we wonder why terrorist attack us...
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