Romulus wrote: 

you forgot about looting...that's the best way to pay for a war. 

 sirdroseph wrote: 
Wars are financed through Debt and the Printing of Money. Take those away, and you force to pay for war with actual cash on hand - none of which governments have.

Central banks = War. They fund both sides for profit.

"War is a racket."
-Smedley Butler

 romeotuma wrote:
 
This quote really seems to get at the heart of the problems, e.g. our current economic woes.

As a sidenote, we engineers use a calculation called 'Von Mises Stress' in strength calculations. That Von Mises guy really got around, huh?

 plaice3 wrote: 
LOL! I remember that one!!!

 oldslabsides wrote: 
Mass murders agree: Gun control works.
-unknown

Yeah, I know I'm ugly... I said to a bartender, 'Make me a zombie.' He said 'God beat me to it.'
Rodney Dangerfield

 

If crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they? GEORGE CARLIN

 oldslabsides wrote: 


"A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user."  —Theodore Roosevelt

 

Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

~Mao Zedong

 romeotuma wrote: 


"The captain is the consumer...the consumers determine precisely what should be produced, in what quality, and in what quantities...They are merciless egoistic bosses, full of whims and fancies, changeable and unpredictable. For them nothing counts other than their own satisfaction...In their capacity as buyers and consumers they are hard-hearted and callous, without consideration for other people...Capitalists...can only preserve and increase their wealth by filling best the orders of the consumers... In the conduct of their business affairs they must be unfeeling and stony-hearted because the consumers, their bosses, are themselves unfeeling and stony-hearted."
—Ludwig von Mises

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
                                                             ~~~Thomas Jefferson

Atheists and the devoutly religious are like Democrats and Republicans, they line up as adversaries, but behind closed doors they are both the same.

"Pain shared decreases, joy shared increases."
~Spider Robinson

I've been thinking about, and being grateful for this truth a lot lately.

Or Communist USSR ...

You see, if it weren't for bitchy judgmental gay men, the world would be a dreary place where everyone dressed like Communist China and no one would know the difference between a salad and a dessert fork. True story. ~ TLo

 miamizsun wrote: 

So, are you saying that all wars have been and are caused by government entitlment programs or incurring debt? If it is the latter, are you trying to imply that Obama is in any way unique in incurring massive amounts of debt???

“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which one is true.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"The natural right to be free of the debts of a previous generation is a salutary curb on the spirit of war and indebtment, which, since the modern theory of the perpetuation of debt, has drenched the earth with blood, and crushed its inhabitants under burdens ever accumulating."

 — Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 1813. ME 13:272

(Jefferson referring to the government financing continuous/perpetual war, literally soaking the ground with blood, by borrowing and printing money for the benefit of the entitled. Just like we're doing right now.)

"Demagogue: One who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots."

~ H.L. Mencken

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.
G.K. Chesterton