Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site unmvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!lanl!unmvax!cliff From: cliff@unmvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: We need the arms race Message-ID: <576@unmvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 23:10:44 EST Article-I.D.: unmvax.576 Posted: Wed Jan 9 23:10:44 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 07:20:27 EST References: <733@loral.UUCP> Organization: Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque Lines: 18 > The arms race is good for peace. We make something then the Soviets > make it too. We have more money than they do. If we keep this up > they will go BANKRUPT and we win. Why should we stop at bankruptcy? Let's go for the really big win and see if we can push them into a national debt of more than $1,000,000,000,000!! (those are exclamation marks, not factorial signs). > We ought to keep up the pressure and crank out those new weapon systems. > In two to three years the Soviets will be BUSTED. Then we can give them > high intrest loans, sell them blue geans, Chevys, stereos, and other > sorts of goodies. Hey the Chinese learned their lesson. They came > around. I think they would prefer Chryslers. While we're at it let's give them Lee Iacocca. :-) Cliff