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You're here to "steer us in the right direction"?

Could that statement be any more arrogant and condescending? Seriously, Danny, who appointed you to "steer" anyone?

Who the fuck are you not to? This is a goddam discussion board, we're supposed to put up ideas and discuss them.

Some boards even appoint moderators to make sure people do that, and prevent others from making personal attacks

It's a good idea Dick, but the problem is there are too many people out there that are bent on violent dominance of their neighbors for us to let down our guard. I do agree that military spending could and should be reduced, but it must be done in a way that doesn't put our people at risk.

From who? We continue to maintain infantry and build jets to make war on the Soviet Union while a bunch of hill bandits fights us to a standstill and costs us trilllions. Ten years ago, after a long history of being almost immune from the terrorism that plagued the rest of the world we suffered the worst terrorist attack ever known. Since then we've seemed to make lot of progress, BACKWARDS. Our Armed Forces are now by far the most advanced and powerful the world has ever seen, in 1989.

The Soviets bankrupted themselves in an arms race and now we seem determined to do the same, with nobody even racing us anymore.

You want to spend money? Try raising the D+ average the American Institute of Civil Engineers gave our infrastructure two years ago. Where I live 43,000 people were just out of power for three days over TWO INCHES of snow. I remember reading that ALL utilities were supposed to be buried EVERYWHERE in the US by 2000, we seem a little late on that. And it's a good thing no Interstate bridges are made in more than one section, what with two of them collapsing over the past decade.