2008 US weapons sales up 45% from 2007 --- Is an arms race in our future?

[mikea109]

We're just keeping up on world demands, plus we need to stay ahead of the Russians. As our economy slows, this is a economic alternative to not being able to move more conventional products !

[Klaus]

Learn from history...
Wall Street during fall of 2008 was just like 1929 repeated...

What pulled USA up and out from the Great Depression of 1930s in 1939-40?

ARMS INDUSTRY

Do I need to say more?

If our economy is not turning to better during next 2 years
we really have to declare war against Islamic radicals and enter to all out war with equal war effort as WWII was done.. Wiping Iran off the map, marching over Pakistan, sweeping Afghanistan clean from last remains of Talibans etc. And that would then jump start our economy...
Cruel, but honest truth...

Read history, and you learn to understand current matters... And will be able to predict some future matters too...

[Mephisto]

uuhhuhh, another fear mongering smut..


you never mentioned if they are legit or not, rember, there is current report form DOJ on weapons traffiking for drugs.

Here's 20%, now show me the other 25...

EDIT: if your talking about military weapons, no there is no increase, US is getting rid of its old much like Russia and readying for the next batch to make headlines soon (like after Desert Storm off which US dropped tons of hardware in the middle east to some Arabs) - or do you think the Iraq War actually costs trillions or that the Stealth is still a mirage... the next plane will retire some current fighter planes and some bomber planes as well.. 2000 lbs bombs will no longer be necessary..

[Michaeln]

Future, past, present--what's the difference?

[BobH]

Has no one here read "1984". Does anyone not know that GranDaddy Prescott Bush bought two steel companies just to supply Hitler with armor plate steel, lest the premature end of WWll cut short his cronies profiteering. Weapons are one of the worlds greatest inventions along w/ "Liquid Plumber", and garbage bags. Buy it: pour it down the drain, throw them away, blow them up. The whole Bush family has a "daddy Warbucks" tradition, and it's taken over the whole Repub party.