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Other list members might not be interested in these discussions.
Most of them are so busy trading like the American public is so busy with
their mortgage payments, credit cards, car loan payments and neighborhood
crimes, that its all right to lie to their faces as long as it that does not
affect them DIRECTLY , not even JUST the neighbors.
Like during Hitler's period, the majority of the German public go on supporting
their fuhrer as long he is not maltreating their ownselves.
Way, way out of topic!!! Sorry!!
James R. Walker wrote:
> > Right. It's called throwing good money after bad. Why should the US
> > government (read why should *I* as a US citizen) give money to the
> > Russian government when most of it will be wasted and very little will
> > be used to improve their economy?
> >
>
> There is only one good reason that we pay and will continue to pay. They
> have thousands of nuclear warheads and over 2000 tons of weapons grade
> plutonium. That's right tons not pounds and it take only about 10 pounds to
> make a bomb.
>
> One nuclear bomb exploded in a major city would produce more burn victims
> than there are hospital beds in the US. It may help if you think of the
> payments as sort of negative "peace dividend" instead of extortion that it
> is.
>
> Jim
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