the budget of the US is so extremely tilted to massive and obsolete weaponry to the detriment of all else it seems. The clip is Ben (or Jerry) from the ice cream company explaining (in oreos) how much is spend on items of the budget. We are a militaristic country, that's why other 1st world countries do better than us in their life expextancy and average standard of living that the US.
2006-12-17 06:30:45 · 3 answers · asked by Ford Prefect 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
I tried to find who on Answers I stole this from, I'm sorry I cannot give thanks to whoever it was...but thanks anyway
2006-12-17 06:34:13 · update #1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YzPuCGShI8
2006-12-17 06:37:30 · update #2
sorry I forgot the link there you go
2006-12-17 06:37:51 · update #3
ok
2006-12-17 06:34:55 · answer #1 · answered by The Scorpion 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
actually we spend much more on give away programs than we do on the military. in fact under clinton we slashed the military to a point that it was nearly destroyed. as a liberal, im for this, as are u my friend.
unfortunately we currently have the highest standard of living in the world. he have the highest mean salaries, the highes home values, we have the higheset gdp, we have the best technology.
in fact we still dominate standard of living in every category. thankfully, we liberals have decided to define standard of living a different way. if some person lives six months longer in another country, we have said that person has a higher standard of living. so if a person lives until 80 totally destitute, with no indoor plumbing, that person is said to have a higher standard of living than a multi-millionarie who lives until hes 79. it really doesnt make any sense.
but , as a liberal, im all for it. anything we can do to try to put down the United States and the capitalist pigs that we are. Carry on my fellow lib, u are doing a great job of attacking this country and making lies about it seem believable. i am trying to do this also.
2006-12-17 14:34:27 · answer #2 · answered by my name is call me ishmael 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The bb demonstration is very misleading. He implies the bb's show the total amount of nukes but the qualifier is Hiroshima equivalency. One nuke is equivalent to many Hiroshima size weapons. If he had used the actual number of weapons we have the number of bb's would have been far less. Remember figures don't lie but liars can figure. Beware of anybody with an agenda until you can dissect their assertions to see if they are facts. You don't want to do to the left what the neo-cons did to the right
2006-12-17 15:28:00 · answer #3 · answered by spicoli 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋