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Originally posted by marg6043
Mahree I am searching is just that the Carlyle firm business deals are so hidden that only when something big comes out then the links will start to surface.
I imagine that onces the bids for the nuclear program comes out then we will be able to see more links.
Now Carlyle started as an investment firm but as the years goes by the are getting more diverse and this companies or firms also enjoy privacy rights.
But eventually we may hear more about it a firm so big and involved in our government can not keep hidding its business partners for too long.
I am glad you are interested too. We will keep working on it.
Originally posted by Off_The_Street
smallpeeps says:
" The majority of taxes go to National Defense and building weapons. Americans will always pay their taxes, and they will NEVER take control of where those taxes go, so the MIC dog will always get fed first."
If you go to www.whitehouse.gov... you'll find that 2004 budget outlays for Military and Defense spending total is 467,886, Health and Human Services 772,995, Housing/Urban Development 32,726, on Budget Social Security 63,195, and Off-Budget Social Security 590,801 (all numbers are millions of dollars).
Originally posted by Off_The_Street
Soficrow, I am not defending the budget by any means.
My point is that when someone posts something that is simply wrong and no one calls him on it because a particular lie fits the public agenda, then everyone on the thread -- the writer and the readers -- are perpetuating ignorance.
Originally posted by marg6043
Actually if you compare the 2005 budget for defense to the amount for the science research, yes we can say that defending the country rebuilding Iraq and making weapons is more important than finding cures for diseases.
Originally posted by marg6043
The truth is that bombs will be produced in 2005 this years in Los Alamos and it will not be only small bombs but big and all kind of bombs, something that people should be aware of.
Despite international protests, China continues to conduct nuclear tests to develop lighter warheads for new missiles that fly farther and are more accurate.
"China is in the process of building a more reliable and longer-range arsenal because that is what great powers do. The Chinese are expending an enormous amount of money, but prestige has an awful lot to do with it," says one U.S. government specialist who tracks China's nuclear program. Many U.S. officials do not believe that China poses a direct threat to the United States, but U.S. defense planners still evaluate potential military scenarios in which Chinese nuclear forces could be turned against American targets. "There is a real possibility that the Chinese are developing their arsenal to keep the United States at bay as they work their will in East Asia," says a U.S. government analyst. Chinese generals view China's "sovereignty" as extending to Taiwan and disputed territories such as the Spratly Islands, which China seized in February 1995.
Originally posted by marg6043
Let's see how the senate house will take it.