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marksiwel wrote: what you call Socialism would be laughed at outside the united states.

A very good reason for not going further in that direction. Look at how well it's working for them. (IMHO)

drjoker wrote: I mean, Americans own more guns than all the world's armies combined (200 million guns). We bought more guns in 2009 than the combined total arms inventory of the world's 20 biggest armies. Do we really need to be taxed for a defense budget?!

When the republic was established, no country had better weapons than another, and no country had more destructive weapons than your average citizen.

If we had not had a strong defense establishment over the last sixty years or so, you'd be speaking Russian today, tovarisch.