That's the worst idea you have ever come up with. Our financial standing in the world would be irrecoverably devastated.Quote:
Perhaps the best way to erase the National Debt: Tell the ChiComs to go burn their atheistic arses in hell and refuse to make any more payments on their loans to us!
Vac, if you want this military machine we have, then tell us how to pay for it. That's what adults do. I don't go out and buy a couple of BMW's on credit and then tell my wife, "It's no problem. I borrowed the money."
Vac, I understand your desire for a strong military and I agree with it, but we have far, far more than what we need to simply defend ourselves. Think about what you're saying. First of all, how would China get that invasion force here? It would take at least several hundred thousand men with all of their equipment, airpower, and so forth. What size fleet would that require? How many hundreds or thousands of ships? It would make the Normandy landing look like a small operation. We could cut our military by 10 or 20 percent and still have great power to defend ourselves. We need to tell the rest of the world that we are not going to go bankrupt so we can keep a military presence in every little corner of the world. They don't respect us anyway. Do you think they are grateful for what we do? Israel is, but besides them the rest of the world delights in disparaging us at every turn.