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The American way is creating problems and selling solutions.
by tazu 2y ago
The American way is creating problems and selling solutions.
- churchill 2y agoThey're not really selling solutions if it still costs them at the end. For the most part, US foreign policy is a net negative for America's pockets and many of their "allies."
- tazu 2y agoThere is no cost, overall it all raises US GDP. Military lives are not considered.
- churchill 2y agoDigging a hole and covering it at a cost of $22 trillion will double America's GDP overnight. But it doesn't create value for anyone. All it does is transfer money to the contractor doing the digging (in America's case, the military-industrial complex) while everyone else becomes poorer. $8 trillion has been spent on the War on Terror so far. Like I said in another comment, that's enough money to build 80 million $100k homes, or reduce America's debt by 25%, or pay off all student loans, or build 400,000 KM of high-speed rail at $20M/km, or give every American taxpayer a one-time check of $48k, etc. Every bomb dropped on Afghanistan or Iraq was money diverted from something else useful the US could have done.
- csomar 2y agoThey are a sophisticated money siphoning program. Socialize the cost of war (taxes), but privatize the gains (corporate profit).