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Re: Important US technology companies sold to foreigners

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From: J. Clarke
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2018 03:51
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On Thu, 8 Feb 2018 16:36:41 -0800 (PST), hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:

>On Thursday, February 8, 2018 at 11:53:16 AM UTC-5, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>
>> Military spending increased annually through the first half of the Obama
>> administration, and declined _very slightly_ over the
>> next four as the wars wound-down.   Hardly "gutting".  You really need
>> to stop listening to Rush Limbaugh (or his local radio proxies).
>> https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/defense_spending_analysis
>
>Thanks for posting that.
>
>Over the last few days, Republicans in congress have been shedding
>crocodile tears over the so-called 'destruction' of the U.S. military.
>Sure seems to me, that with all their ships, planes, and rockets,
>that we're in pretty good shape.
>
>It's been often said that we have enough nuclear weapons to blow
>the world up many times over.  So why do we need more of them, 
>as proposed by the current administration?  Are we gonna 
>detonate an H-bomb over ISIS?

It isn't a matter of "more of them".  That would violate several
treaties.  It's a matter of making the ones we have better, in the
sense of more precise,.more reliable, smaller, lighter, more flexible,
etc.
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