Re: “Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ Missile Shield Expected To Cost $500 Billion”

On 5/22/2025 11:09 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Wed, 21 May 2025 23:57:28 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
 

On 5/21/2025 10:38 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Tue, 20 May 2025 17:26:55 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
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“Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ Missile Shield Expected To Cost $500 Billion”
   https://headlineusa.com/trumps-golden-dome-missile-shield-expected-to-cost-500-billion/
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“(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump’s plan to develop a new
massive missile defense system for the US, dubbed the “Golden Dome” or
the “Iron Dome for America,” is expected to cost $500 billion over the
next 20 years, CNN reported on Monday, citing an estimate from the
Congressional Budget Office.”
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“The project will be a boondoggle for US weapons makers, and, according
to a report from Reuters, Elon Musk’s SpaceX has emerged as a
frontrunner to develop key parts of the missile shield. The report said
SpaceX has partnered with Palantir and Anduril on the project.”
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Worth it.  But the cost will be $5 trillion.
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BTW, I fully expect to see two or more space stations, a space gas
station, and a space hotel out of this.  SpaceX is going to put up a lot
of equipment to support the Golden Dome.

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Gotta find /something/ to do with the money freed up by cancelling
Social Security!

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I expect not.  My wife went on Social Security six months ago.  I go on
Medicare June 1, my wife went on Medicare over two years ago.

 Destroying Social Security has been a Republican goal since Ronald
Reagan (at least). And neither side likes Medicare (Republicans hate
it because their good buddies in the health insurance industry aren't
getting enough money, the weirder Dems want to replace it with a
single-payer system, which Bernie, with all-too-familiar mendacity,
described as "Medicare for all". Not that actually extending Medicare
to everyone would not be a good idea, but that isn't what Bernie was
pushing.)
 Why else do you think the Republicans have (with the cheerful
assistance of the Dems, to be sure) pushed the National Debt to its
current level?
 Just another reason why we need new political parties -- at least one
of which is willing to tax the 1%-ers as needed and actually use the
money to reduce (not eliminate [1], but reduce to a sensible level)
the National Debt.
 [1] Federal government debt, at least so far, provides great security
to pension funds and accounts of all descriptions. So some must exist.

Social Security and Medicare will not die until the financial apocalypse of the United States.  Pray that it does not happen.
Lynn