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Friday, January 20, 2017

Alibaba'a Jack Ma Drops a Redpill in Davos: The U.S. Wasted $14 Trillion on Wars Over the Past 30 Years

And there it is, the unvarnished, raw, truth about how everything went wrong for middle class America.

Since the Vietnam war, more than 45 years ago, the US has embarked on a neocon strategy of war in an effort to build a global empire. The result of that strategy has left American infrastructure second rate, its school system in shambles, and its healthcare system a complete and utter joke.

Just imagine what America could've done with $14t of investable dollars, instead of waging wars.

Aside from the wars, America spends more than 50% of its discretionary budget on the military, per annum, 16% of its overall budget.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

If we had presidents and congress who really wanted to win instead of pandering to special interests the cost would have been be a fraction of that.

Anonymous said...

Yes, but then the bankers wouldn't be nearly as rich, nor the Big Oil companies, nor the Big Pharma, Big Ag, so on. Empire is a good thing for big international corporations.

Anonymous said...

This sucks big time, and Trump needs to change this. I hope he can do it without getting taken out.