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**mudozvonf** · 09-12-2009, 01:59 PM

After that ignorant post, I highly doubt that you have the capacity to grasp that which I am about to say, but I will try anyway.

Just what do you think the U.S. govt used to purchase "all the planes, helicipoters, [sic] tanks, jeeps, bullets, grenades and other miscellaneous equipment"?

Who creates all of the item that was used to make said purchases?

What stops that creating entity from creating an ever increasing amount of the item that was used to make said purchases?

And finally, can that entity create oil?

And you call my post ignorant... If you promise to pay attention, I'll try to type slow enough for you to keep up. Yes, I am quite aware that we're deficit spending for this "war" like we are just about everything else these days.

The thing is, whether you or I think the dollar is still worth anything or not, somebody apparently does, or we wouldn't still be able to trade them for the items we need to support the troops.

The items themselves have intrinsic value that we lose each and every time we have to leave a piece of equipment behind, for whatever reason. And like it or not, spending funny-money or not, if somebody didn't think that paper was worth something, we wouldn't be able to obtain those tanks, airplanes, et. al., at any price.

What stops the government from creating more and more money, at less and less value to buy stuff with? Not a damned thing, except of course, that at some point if the value drops too badly, others are going to stop taking that money in exchange for their goods or services.

Can the government make oil? Absolutely not. Never said it could. Then again, Iraq isn't making much of it for anyone right now either, despite our "best efforts" to prop up their oil fields. Iraq produces less than three percent of what the US consumes, and that's down from a high of about four and a half percent before 9/11. Iraq's entire crude oil production in a year wouldn't last us a month.

So how is being there, wasting even more oil and resources doing us any good? Hint: It's not. It's not doing us any good at all.

09-12-2009, 01:59 PM	#28
mudozvonf Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 426 Senior Member	After that ignorant post, I highly doubt that you have the capacity to grasp that which I am about to say, but I will try anyway. Just what do you think the U.S. govt used to purchase "all the planes, helicipoters, [sic] tanks, jeeps, bullets, grenades and other miscellaneous equipment"? Who creates all of the item that was used to make said purchases? What stops that creating entity from creating an ever increasing amount of the item that was used to make said purchases? And finally, can that entity create oil? And you call my post ignorant... If you promise to pay attention, I'll try to type slow enough for you to keep up. Yes, I am quite aware that we're deficit spending for this "war" like we are just about everything else these days. The thing is, whether you or I think the dollar is still worth anything or not, somebody apparently does, or we wouldn't still be able to trade them for the items we need to support the troops. The items themselves have intrinsic value that we lose each and every time we have to leave a piece of equipment behind, for whatever reason. And like it or not, spending funny-money or not, if somebody didn't think that paper was worth something, we wouldn't be able to obtain those tanks, airplanes, et. al., at any price. What stops the government from creating more and more money, at less and less value to buy stuff with? Not a damned thing, except of course, that at some point if the value drops too badly, others are going to stop taking that money in exchange for their goods or services. Can the government make oil? Absolutely not. Never said it could. Then again, Iraq isn't making much of it for anyone right now either, despite our "best efforts" to prop up their oil fields. Iraq produces less than three percent of what the US consumes, and that's down from a high of about four and a half percent before 9/11. Iraq's entire crude oil production in a year wouldn't last us a month. So how is being there, wasting even more oil and resources doing us any good? Hint: It's not. It's not doing us any good at all.
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