[ExI] US ‘failed miserably’ in wargame reportedly against China attack on Taiwan

[William Flynn Wallace]

But we aren’t having desperate war bond drives now.

BillW, what changed please?

spike

How do you get people interested in over 20 trillion dollars of debt?  A
war they can understand.  People are dying.  The enemy is winning.The debt
has no urgency about it.  Thus the one word answer to you is:
complacency.  Part of that is living for the moment.  How many of us have
adequate retirement money?  Small number, I think.  That future is just too
far off for people to imagine.  So in the end, it's a failure of
imagination.  AGree?


bill w

On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 12:43 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
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> spike  Of course you know the answer:  outgo has to equal income.   bill w
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> >…Ja.  But how does that happen please sir?  The US national debt is
> well-known, the deficit is well-known.  …What part of that argument is not
> perfectly clear please?  Anyone?  Anyone?  Beuuuullerrrr… spike
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> BillW, there is an excellent movie that came out several years ago called
> Flags of Our Fathers.  It was a war movie and is rough going, but it isn’t
> only about that.  There is a companion movie called Letters from Iwo Jima
> which in some ways is even better, that same struggle from the Japanese
> POV.  Both excellent films.
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> In Flags, much of the drama happens in the states, where the four guys who
> raised the American flag over Iwo were paraded about for PR.  But one of
> the four was killed in subsequent fighting, so they substituted another guy
> who suffered a mental breakdown as a result.
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> The reason I mention it is that the people back home were desperate to get
> Americans to buy war bonds.  The US military had guys in the field under
> attack in the Pacific, yet funds were so low they couldn’t mount effective
> attacks.  So… the flag raisers encouraged Americans to buy war bonds to
> finish out the war.
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> The US is now spending money and going into debt faster than it was during
> the war.  But we aren’t having desperate war bond drives now.
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> BillW, what changed please?
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