Five Reasons Why America's Rivals Are Catching Up With Mili

LTC Bink Romanick — Sun, 12 Jul 2015 23:30:47 -0400

A very interesting read. Let's discuss

http://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenthompson/2015/07/09/five-reasons-americas-rivals-are-catching-up-in-military-technology/

Response by Capt Seid Waddell made Jul 12 at 2015 11:40 PM

Capt Seid Waddell — Sun, 12 Jul 2015 23:40:38 -0400

This is the way great civilizations crumble and fall.

They lose the drive to advance and become content to sit upon their laurels.

Response by Cpl Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 13 at 2015 12:25 AM

Cpl Private RallyPoint Member — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 00:25:19 -0400

Standing on the outside looking in, I can easily say that our decline is by design. I believe BO took on his fathers dreams of anti-colonialism and in the eyes of those, we are a great evil. His goal is knocking us down a few pegs to make us even with the world we stole from. In his own book, he stated he sought out the marxist professors, et. al. not because he was learning about the enemy, but because he identified with their message. Frank Marshall Davis, Rashid Khalidi, Bill Ayers... he is them and they, who hate(d) this country, are his greatest influences.

Response by COL Mikel J. Burroughs made Jul 13 at 2015 8:47 AM

COL Mikel J. Burroughs — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 08:47:13 -0400

LTC Bink Romanick This is very good article. It really hits home on the increase in entitlement in this country versus creating a new technology revolution. Pushing ahead on all advancements in the private and military sector creates more jobs, businesses, and opportunity. This relieves us from massive welfare. Let's put America back to work on a new strategy and reduce dependency on welfare growth. One area would be new technology to put ahead of the other countries catching up to us with their own military technology. I believe this strategy would put America back to work, create new jobs, entice new industries to open up, and get individuals off unemployment and welfare. We need to do the something similar with healthcare to get more individuals working in that field, find more ways to reduce costs of the goods and services associated with it, and reduce healthcare insurance back to levels they were 30 or 40 years ago. Encourage the top (15) big insurance companies to come up with programs for the elderly, thus reducing Medicare and Medicaid programs through the Government. Maybe that program is a (free) program after a certain age absorbed by the healthcare providers and Insurance companies (reinvesting their profits) back into the system, so it can be self-funding after individuals turn a certain age and have no benefits from a retirement plan. I'm rambling. Good article to read by all.