What the hell is Ron Paul talking about?

[jmowreader]

46. I'm confused here

He's going to cut the MIC without cutting "national defense."

There are, basically, three places you can spend money on the military.

The first is personnel costs--salaries and whatnot.

The second is base support--electricity, water, food and other things necessary to run the nation's multitude of military installations. Even if you were to take every troop out of every overseas installation--in some cases (read: Korea) that would be a very bad idea, in others (read: Europe) it would be all right--you've still got to feed the troops and heat their water.

All other spending falls into the broad category of the military-industrial complex because you've got to get the things the military uses to do its job from somewhere. Yeah, you could quit buying from...oh, Boeing...and shift your spending to another company that could make the things you need...but when you do the new company becomes part of the MIC. (If you did that, though, things would get expensive: another company COULD make, oh say Humvees, but they'd have to set up a production line for them and production lines cost real money.)

Without spending money at the Great and All Powerful MIC you wind up with well-fed, well-paid troops running around in vehicles that are falling apart due to lack of repair parts, no ammunition, no medical supplies, outdated equipment and, eventually, what Reagan termed the "hollow army."

You're right: what the hell IS Ron Paul talking about?

And Ron: I know you're reading. Google "Romania Decree 770" to see exactly what "supporting the right to life" entails. Let's make it real simple: you can be pro-choice or you can be a communist because turning America into a communist country is the only way you're going to prevent women from getting abortions.