It is the cost of living our lifestyle. Try living a subsistence lifestyle for a year then tell me if it’s worth the cost.
“It is the cost of living our lifestyle?”
Yea, well I tell ya what, the next Marine’s funeral I attend, you can come along and tell that line of BS to the widow & orphans...
“Try living a subsistence lifestyle for a year then tell me if it’s worth the cost?”
If it means dead & maimed Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen & Marines, it is definitely NOT “worth the cost!”
And if you had served and/or lost a loved one in combat;
you would know better than to make such an outrageous comment!
Finally, FYI, there is absolutely no reason on earth why we can not only “subsist” but PROSPER without trading with countries who are our enemies...let us all know when you “get it!”
sheesh...........
I think y’all are comparing apples and oranges. We don’t buy oil from the Arabs. We buy petroleum based products from companies that do business with the Arabs. Is that us funding terrorism? Actually, yes.
I guess you can look at it that way, same way you can look at an American company like General Dynamics with so many thousands of employees selling military equipment to our enemies or to countries that do business with our enemies. My god, an American company selling equipment to our enemies so they can kill us? Maybe we should just shut them down?
The global miltary/industrial complex is so intertwined that changing one variable can have a significant impact on millions of lives both domestic and foreign.
Not understanding the business of big oil I can only surmise that the only option for us not to give “oil money to the Arabs so they can buy weapons and kill us” is to kill off oil in the commodities market, nationalize the oil industry and have a dept of drilling and we drill for our own consumption. In addition, any company that produces any product that has military use and can be used by a foreign nation in killing Americans should be shut down or forced to cease selling to that country.
Of course since that goes against the principles of capitalism it sounds like something the RATS would prefer us do.
>>It is the cost of living our lifestyle. Try living a subsistence lifestyle for a year then tell me if it’s worth the cost.<<
I’m with you. I like to camp, but not for more than a week or so. ;)
I like to bike commute, but only because I don’t HAVE TO, like so many in other countries.