Subject: Re: [drugwar] Army of One Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 20:21:33 -0400 To: From: Bob Armstrong On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 16:28:23 -0700, Steven M. Cooper wrote: >=A0On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 14:22:56 -0400, Richard Lake wrote: >=A0>=A0Army of One >=A0>=A0http://www.takebackthemedia.com/onearmy.html > >=A0Very powerful >=A0Very moving >=A0Very true - =A0and that's what scares me! Yes War is bankrupting us causing the greatest unemployment since Hoover and Roosevelt . So the State cannot take enough to pay the Reserve Warriors who were taken from makin' things to sit for snipers in heavy metal laced deserts . As Harry Browne says in "The Ailing Economy" http://www.harrybrowne.org/articles/economicgrowth.htm >=A0And as though the economy weren't suffering enough already,= along came 9/11. Needless to say, the event didn't cause the= government to reexamine >=A0its foreign policy or to slim down =97 to give the economy the= necessary freedom to adjust to our new needs. No chance. > >=A0Instead, 9/11 has provided the perfect excuse to accelerate= government growth. Not one federal program has been cut to= accommodate the new spending >=A0plans. Instead, we get more government heaped on top of all= that's already weighing down the economy. > >=A0Such things as the Patriot Act and the Homeland Security= Department have to hurt the economy. Traveling businessmen lose= an hour or two from their >=A0workdays because of airport security. Companies have to= rearrange their affairs to comply with new reporting= requirements. > >=A0Sending 150,000 soldiers to Iraq has to hurt the economy. They= could have been producing goods and services that would enhance= our lives. > >=A0These things add up. --=A0 =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864 Liberty : http://cosy.com/Liberty.htm =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A07/30/2003 8:03:09 PM