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ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
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ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
This is part 3 in a series. Read part 1 here. Read part 2 here. When the Cold War officially ended suddenly in 1991 Washington had one more chance to - David Stockman for Antiwar.com Original
The short answer is i go back to the eisenhower minimum. his budget in today's dollars in 1960 when he left office and warned about the military industrial complex, and their ability to take over spending and to unduey influence the government, that was $400 million in today's dollars. we could go back to that from the $650 billion we're at today. that's where clinton left it when he exited office in 2000. i don't think we were under any threat from anybody in the world that back. kind of massive war machine, conventional war machine, could have done anything about. and that's just one reason ...