Indian Education: Actually Terrible !!! 1782

On Sun, 23 Jul 2006, Old Pif

Basically, our whole military establishment is a govt-subsidized welfare program to support defense jobs. If we had true "free markets" I'd bet we could get the Chinese to make anything we needed (rockets, ammo, guns, planes) at 1-10 to 1-20th the cost and they would be happy to let the conveyor belts run off 2X the order, and keep half of it, basically paid for by US taxpayers. I seem to recall that even Israel, and a few other countries get some pentagon contracts.

The question as to whether our military materiel is a "sacred cow" (and thus providing high job security and high pay to a subset of the US population) to be guaranteed fed from US taxpayers is something I'll leave to the pro-globalists.

Without having studied govt subsidies in detail, its hard for me to present an "expert" opinion as to whether they pay for themselves in spinoff and development, but I think all parties have agreed that the internet, originally sponsored as a military com network, has mushroomed into a major cash cow, first for the USA, and now, the rest of the world (of course we will never get any acknowledgement from the Indians, let alone appreciation, because they are too lost in their own swelled heads, fed by considerable business headed their way but in a volume far lower than for the total volume of other kinds of MNC business flying around the world)

Bits and pieces of news that I run into indicate that there are plenty of complaints to spread around about govt subsidies "favoring" a local business for the purpose of landing a "beachead" in some sector of the world economy (eg. Euro complaints against Boeing, Boeing's complaints againd Airbus). Agricultural subsidies are the current baracade at the Doha WTO talks. I can just see guys in cushy chairs -- at the stroke of a pen-- sentencing large populations of farmers in poverty to going out of business while all the transport ships and tankers, and the oil companies that stoke the boilers for fuel, make off like bandits. All in the name of validating economist "castles in the sky."

But, they insist on fixing something that isn't broken.