Mars vs. The World Bank

For those of us who have long considered the spending priorities of the American government to be "wack", here is what World Bank president James Wolfensohn had to say about it last Thursday:

"Imagine a little guy from Mars coming to earth to see how things are done here. He would determine that we spend $900 billion per year on defense, $350 billion on agricultural subsidies and only $68 billion on development aid. He would return to Mars with only one message: They are all mad. Let them mess about for another 50 years and then we take over..."

Au contraire, James Wolfensohn!

In 50 years, those defense dollars will have developed several new weapon systems (a missile shield and tactical nuclear weapons, for example, and, hopefully, that tachyon death ray Donald Rumsfeld keeps clamoring for) that will help us deflect the Martian onslaught. And you want to open us up to those commie-fascist Martians!?

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