{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"Griffin (vcgriffin)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-13 07:42:35 UTC","author_name":"Griffin (vcgriffin)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/vcgriffin","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/2950479","html":"@<span class=\"vcard\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/user\/1768\" class=\"url\" title=\"Lelouch I bananas\"><span class=\"fn nickname\">redash<\/span><\/a><\/span> Well the USA defence budget is  $664.84 billion and you need to have some sort of justification for that level of spending, and while war acts as a slight distraction its better for keeping people scared and since Bin-laden has been removed a new enemy needs to be found, Russia may be on the rise but a stop gap is needed. Its not just the USA the UK annual export market for Arms was \u00a317bn in 2003, so its the only part of our economy is still boyent"}