Cold War needed to boost the economy

Over the last few weeks it has been busy so it has been hard to write about all of the things happening so I’ll try to get back on track and hopefully return to some sort of normal schedule.

The news has been filled lately with all of the gloom and doom with the financial crisis and the auto industry meltdown. Our new Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton recently returned home from her first trip abroad with stops in Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, and China but all this stuff is nothing compared with a news story that has somehow managed to fly beneath the radar.

That might be a poor choice of words. Sorry, or maybe not.

Russia is in talks with Cuba and Argentina to station bombers in those countries. The Russian president announced they were going to rebuild their nuclear stockpile in response to what they see as America gaining footholds in countries bordering Russia. All this only a week after Hilary Clinton visited. Don’t know what she did but perhaps she is not invited back.

I don’t know what their worried about. It’s not like we just march into places that didn’t do anything to us. Oh wait! Never mind.

Let’s welcome back the cold war folks. A good war might be just what the doctor ordered to get this economy back on track, eh? Throughout history, sadly the world has been fed by the ‘war machine’ to keep economies stable and growing. We can all go to work for defense contractors building bombs or aircraft to keep the peace. Hey, if the Pope can publicly state that condoms don't prevent Aid’s, then I guess I can say, building bombs for peace to help our economy, with a straight face!

In an odd little twist, remember the Star Wars project under Regan? They wanted to develop a way of shooting Russian ICBM’s out of the sky. Billions of dollars and decades later we are not that much closer to being able to do that (even though there have been successful tests here in Alaska). What about all the technology and all the bright minds that poured into this idea? Did anything useful come from the research like the way Tang, Velcro, and medical technology came from the space program in the 60”s?

Of course it did!

Now here’s the interesting part . . . Lasers that were developed to shoot down missiles have now been put into the service of reducing deaths from malaria. Wrap your head around this . . . they have made a Laser capable of vaporizing clouds of mosquitoes in Africa thus preventing any disease those annoying little bugs might carry.

Thirty years and hundreds of Billions of dollars later we might not knock out every nuclear tipped rocket coming our way in the sky but we can kill Mosquitoes with the biggest back yard zapper ever!

Good luck out there and remember, as Rome burns we will at least stay warm.

I just realized what today is and that this might be taken as some kind of April’s fools story but believe me I have been sitting on this for several weeks, lol.

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