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

No arms race, just Americans making sure that they will be able to defend themselves and hunt game after the Liberals ruin our country.

No arms race, just Americans making sure that they will be able to defend themselves and hunt game after the Liberals ruin our country.

No, someone had to sell those missiles and bombs to Israel.

You shouldn't have had to specify...its quite obvious what you meant.

Nope wepons sales always go up durring recessions.

The weapon industry has it's own agenda, .. they are an industry trying to make profits.. has nothing to do with defending our country. That is secondary at best. They do use that excuse to have more tax dollars spent on weapons.. in fact, US speaks majority of its tax money on weapons, where as europeans spend it on affordable education, health care and decent infrastructure, that will continue to serve them well even in a world without oil.

Roosevelt expressed his serious concerns about the weapon industry getting ahead of itself and gaining power and having an agenda of its own (profit, politics) far beyond 'self defence'.

And his nightmare has come true.. weapons are not only sold to allies.. today's allies are not tomorrow's allies, .. US sold weapons to dictators, even to saddam, .. only to fear-monger surrounding countries and tellt hem they too should buy US arms to protect themselves against the enemies, in this way, carlyle group and such, made billions a month.. then US manipulates political processes, sets people up against eachother, and supports others, no matter how good or evil they are (dictators), for strategic purposes.. or 'defend national (economic) interests'. That justifies supplying arms to just about anyone, as that in it self is serving US economic interests.

But is it ethical? hell no.. but then ethics is not part of the rule of capitalism.. it can merely coexist.. without it, even child prostitution can be justified with "hey, it's better than the alternative, kids having no means of earning money and buying food at all"..

capitalism and pragmatism, without ethics, leads to doom and gloom.
Weapons are considered a 'product'.. not the loss of life.. and nobody cares to know that 95% of those weapons will kill innocent people somewhere around the world.. the generally acceptad fallacy that "guns don't kill, people do" is used to justify this.. where as you may safely assume in any country a certain percentage is mad but we prefer not to arm them..

Unlike what NRI likes to tell you.. an armed world is much less safe than an unarmed one.. meaning.. if you have 10 people, 9 good, 1 bad, if all are unarmed, it's more safe, than if all of them ARE armed.. as in first case nobody will die, in latter case at LEAST 1.

This and nothing else, explains the procentually much higher rate of deaths in the USA by arms, than, let's say in Europe.. thousands!

Yes. Armed right-wing nutjobs racing against time to prove to one another how good they are at fear mongering.

Yup it is beat the Obummer...buy them BEFORE he tries to eliminate the rights to own them....

Yes. Armed right-wing nutjobs racing against time to prove to one another how good they are at fear mongering.

The arms race is already occurring, or did you miss the Chinese shooting a satellite out of orbit followed by the USA doing so?
This followed Putin and Bush both announcing new nuclear bombs.

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 !

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...

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..

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

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.