Buying Security With Billions of Bucks

[Stalwart]

This morning someone said that the bailout is necessary to protect our way of life (Morning Joe). Sounds like an old song.

Its all about money and the security it brings. Financial security is as important as national defense security.

A price tag on things in billions of dollars puts them on a common scale. We are paying billions (trillions?) for national security (terrorism related). Now money itself has become a national security.

In terms of raw security what can our money buy?

On the scale of security threats, where does nuclear Iran stand compared to the current financial threat to our future?

Equal?

Five to seven billion dollars is the investment cost of a fourth generation nuclear plant. We pay for it, American contractors build it. The US Navy runs it. We build the US Embassy, Iran within its perimeter fence, it then belongs to the USA. We give the electricity as a gift of peace to the people of Iran. Continuing gift cost: A billion dollars a year.

How's that for "Change"?

Chump change in the financial world or the military industrial complex.

Unintended consequences: Every country with nuclear weapons aspirations will want the same gift. Give it to them. We and our technology then become the source of world power.

What is the current price of national security in billions (trillions?) anyhow?

This way we give power to the world. They want it? Give it to them if they agree not to process uranium. Reduce oil consumption. Nuclear weapon threat goes away.

What price security? The worst price for us is giving up freedom. This just costs money.

Chump change compared to what the stupid ideology, greed and incompetence of a few of our own fellow citizens has cost us and will continue to cost us. Hasn't our security been attacked in the same place again?

Electricity is just electricity. If we really want to be the good guys of the world we give them alternative power electricity not nuclear. Isn't that where we intend to lead?

If electrical power is our gift in exchange for not developing nuclear weapons behind the closed doors of a nuclear power plant then that only increases our incentive to produce it in the cheapest, most efficient and sustainable manner.

Its all about money and what it will buy. Everything has a price. Security is a commodity. What do we want? Why do we shoot ourselves in the foot with what belongs to us as the national wealth?

[marketcrazy1]

1. so i understand

build a reactor complex in Iran, put a U.S. embassy on the property making it ( the entire complex ) U.S. sovereign territory, owned and operated exclusively by the U.S. government and give the power generated to Iran for free.. repeat in other countries as needed.???