MATTHEW'S_DAD wrote:There would have to be some sort of financial collapse for that to happen.
Mandalore wrote:Why bother spending a cool 600 million a year on the military if we don't wipe out a few cultures now and again. The mongols had it right, you just have to kill and rape everything when you invade somewhere.
But in seriousness, foreign aid doesn't mark more than 5% in any of the western nations' budgets as far as I can remember. Welfare is the major expenditure for Western Europe and a significant part (25-35% I think) for the US. Reform on this subject and in the mechanisms to aid upward social mobility are what I would peg as the defining question for the future success of governments. We've already seen where this road leads down with Japan which has by the far the greatest debt to GDP ratio and whose aging population makes it practically impossible to generate the wealth needed to redress the balance. A strong culture of saving needs to be embraced in the West and reliance upon the government for programs as we age needs to drop.
Our education system needs to be re-worked completely from the ground up. The idea of tenure and the monetary focus on the last stages of education have effectively ruined the goal that education is supposed to provide. That and the incredibly heavy "liberalization" focus on music, arts, and other faggotry during the priming stages of adolescence should be reversed to practical education with heavy focus on STEM, discipline, and financial training. If I had to bet I'd say that 90% of the people that I graduated with couldn't write a check or explain how loans work or the practical implications of how that will affect them in the future.
But I rant, on topic: There is no winning for the west in the situation that has developed. Early on when the rebel groups were largely secular if the weight of the west had been throw behind them things might have ended differently but with the bumbling of the democracies the west has now pushed itself into a bit of a corner.
Mandalore wrote:Saying that people wouldn't be exposed to art without learning how to play a recorder is a silly statement. All I'm saying is that the current American educational system is very whimsical non practical.[poo] you not the people I go to school with don't know rudimentary financial skills at all
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