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"Even the most cursory examination of history shows that no correlation can be made between a country's security and its military spending. Since there is no relationship between military budgets and external threats, there can be no causality between the two. Thus, governments do not have militaries in order to protect their citizens from external enemies. Militaries must exist for some other reason."
I've got to say this I agree with this guy, Stefan Molyneux, about his thesis. Capitalist states do not exist to take care of their people. What started him thinking about this idea is his ex-military friend's admission that the Canadian military was being trained to turn back a revolution if the economy went bad there. We in America would not be too shocked if that happened here after all the revelations we've had about domestic spying, etc.
Now, as for socialist states, Mr. Molyneux called the social programs enacted in Britain after WWII "massive socialism." I don't think that was true. All of the resources of Britain were not being shared among the people there.
It is refreshing to see an open discussion of the fact that the state has guns and they will use them--ON US!
SIRATYST (Stuff I Read and Thought You Should Too) -- “To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.” (Calgacus, as quoted by Tacitus, Agricola 30-31)"
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