Comment Re:What can be done about terrorism? (Score 0) 2087
>Does any other country in the
>world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet
Boeing planes are developed using the public money of the largest tax base in the world. The American taxpayer subsidizes them through massive defence spending, with the explicit purpose of developing military weapons (example - F16s). The trick is that the research is retooled as commercial planes. No wonder Boeing is the biggest in the world!
This formula for massive subsidy of private enterprise benefits most of the Fortune 500 companies. Plastic, computers, aerospace, and many other industries are paid for by the American tax payer.
It's quite simply a state-directed economy, or more popularly known as the Military-Industrial Complex.
The modern-day problem is finding ways to justify to the public the massive security budget that powers the whole thing. The mythical commie threat is long-gone. What remains are regional skirmishes and guerrila-terrorism.
This is incidentally the true justification behind the ridiculous Star Wars programs being pushed by the security establishment. Massive expenditures, or rather subsidies to private enterprise.
Consider carefully what I am saying if you desire to understand modern-day economics.
>world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet
Boeing planes are developed using the public money of the largest tax base in the world. The American taxpayer subsidizes them through massive defence spending, with the explicit purpose of developing military weapons (example - F16s). The trick is that the research is retooled as commercial planes. No wonder Boeing is the biggest in the world!
This formula for massive subsidy of private enterprise benefits most of the Fortune 500 companies. Plastic, computers, aerospace, and many other industries are paid for by the American tax payer.
It's quite simply a state-directed economy, or more popularly known as the Military-Industrial Complex.
The modern-day problem is finding ways to justify to the public the massive security budget that powers the whole thing. The mythical commie threat is long-gone. What remains are regional skirmishes and guerrila-terrorism.
This is incidentally the true justification behind the ridiculous Star Wars programs being pushed by the security establishment. Massive expenditures, or rather subsidies to private enterprise.
Consider carefully what I am saying if you desire to understand modern-day economics.
