Tuesday, November 6, 2007

It occurs to me that one of the reasons I’m so mistrustful of Joe Lieberman is that he thinks his constituency needs jobs making submarines that are capable of destroying entire countries and disrupting all life on this planet.  The USA has obviously not needed these weapons since Ronald Rayguns zapped the evil empire (many would argue we have never needed these weapons), so why do we continue to build them?   Easy answer:  We build them because General Dynamics at New London, Connecticut, and Northrop Grumman at Newport News, Virginia translate buckets of the cash they receive for the effort into contributions that keep the old warhorses like Lieberman alive in the Senate.

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