Thursday, July 27, 2017

Sub nukes

When Obamacare came out, I immediately pointed out that while people may have insurance they would not be using it like they did in the past and the reason being deductibles. Most people were used to $100 or $250 deductibles and the Obamacare plans were more like $5,000. I pointed out that when a person has to pay the first $5,000 out of pocket they will not consider that insurance. I did point out that the upside was usage for anything less than critical would decline thus the cost of health care would decline. Finally in the past 6 months the problem with deductibles has come to the attention of our ever vigilante press and now it is in the news on a daily basis. We are facing a similar situation today regarding the situation in North Korea. All the news is about the ICBM threat saying that new missiles can travel the 4,000 miles polar path and hit US territory and we see daily reports the danger is increasing with each new missile test. Will someone please wake up to the North Korean submarines that can launch a nuke from under the sea just a few miles off our coast. Satellites keep close tabs in the locations of missiles in North Korea but location of submarines is not so simple. Once they have this capability we will be back with the mutually assured destruction policies of the cold war but with country where the leader has openly stated his willingness to use nukes against us. We have consistently under estimated the time line for North Koreas ICBM progress and we may be doing the same thing with their nuke launching subs. After considerable searching I found the following on CNBC: • The chilling thought of North Korea's fully submersible submarines firing a nuclear ballistic missile isn't as far-fetched as some might think.

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