I like to torture myself in the morning by listening to the
windbags on National Proletarian Radio, the Voice of Dull
International Socialism and Self-Important Do-Gooding. This morning
they interviewed the somewhat less than sparkling US Senator from
Illinois, Dick Durbin, to solicit his Deep Thoughts about in Ukraine,
where he has just paid a meddling visit. This is similar to my
visiting your house, complaining about the food and the furniture
arrangement and telling you your neighbor called your wife "ugly,"
but let that go.
What caught my ear was this billion bucks the
US is going to give/loan to Ukraine, part of which they will spend on
military. Of course, there's no way a Ukrainian army could stand up
to the entire Russian army, so that's all a colossal waste of money
and of possibly of lives.
Then it hit me: it would be cheaper
to buy every man in the country a rifle and a pistol, and a pistol
for every woman, and teach 'em all how to make IEDs. Come to think of
it, we could do the same in the US. Nobody in his right mind --
other than the present US government -- would take on a fight like
that against a whole nation. And it would be far cheaper than a
professional military. In the US, say half the 300 million folks are
men, 2/3 old enough to handle a rifle. Buy 'em all a rifle with 1,000
rounds for $200 & teach 'em how to use it. That's an army of 100
million men for only $20 billion, and you don't have to pay 'em a
cent of retirement. Militia makes sense, professional army doesn't.
But what do I know? I'm no mor'n a natural born fool from Tennessee
where we don't get to print our own money and know better than to
meddle in other people's business for they might shoot you. We're
nice, but we ain't that nice.
