Received: from icpc11s.icpc.fukui-u.ac.jp (icpc11s.icpc.fukui-u.ac.jp [133.7.1.11]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id h1P10ZP07817 for <nifl-esl@nifl.gov>; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 20:00:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from icpc00.icpc.fukui-u.ac.jp (icpc00.icpc.fukui-u.ac.jp [133.7.6.10]) by icpc11s.icpc.fukui-u.ac.jp (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h1P10Yd8013239 for <nifl-esl@nifl.gov>; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 10:00:34 +0900 (JST) Received: from edu00.f-edu.fukui-u.ac.jp (edu00.f-edu.fukui-u.ac.jp [133.7.28.100]) by icpc00.icpc.fukui-u.ac.jp (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h1P10YNq007514 for <nifl-esl@nifl.gov>; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 10:00:34 +0900 (JST) Received: from CJSLITT (cjsllit.f-edu.fukui-u.ac.jp [133.7.21.9]) by edu00.f-edu.fukui-u.ac.jp (8.12.2/8.12.2) with SMTP id h1P10YkX003647 for <nifl-esl@nifl.gov>; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 10:00:34 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <00a001c2dc69$bc61d480$09150785@fedu.fukuiu.ac.jp> Reply-To: "Charles Jannuzi" <jannuzi@edu00.f-edu.fukui-u.ac.jp> From: "Charles Jannuzi" <jannuzi@edu00.f-edu.fukui-u.ac.jp> To: <nifl-esl@nifl.gov> References: <20030224163906.ZZBA5446.mta02-srv.alltel.net@[162.40.68.23]> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:8600] Re: War as a cross-cultural issue Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 10:03:40 +0900 Organization: Fukui University Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Status: O Content-Length: 653 Lines: 26 One Japanese student (one in a political activist group) asks: The US plans to spend 5-6% of its huge GDP on 'military and intelligence'. Currently Japan spends less than 1% on its military. Why does the US need so much military spending, especially when tens of millions in the US lack health insurance? My reply: most OECD and many developing countries have better social insurance systems than the US. Eventually the US will have to deal with this issue. Right now its government is in self-denial. Should I have discussed how Japanese went hungry and without health care back in the 1930s during the Great Depression? Charles Jannuzi
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