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| US Spends Billions on Overseas Wars, But Who Really Benefits? |
| 2023-11-29 |
| [ET] Concerns over incentivizing global conflicts are rising as the Biden administration requests more than $105 billion in supplemental security spending. The administration says the money, primarily for Israel and Ukraine, will be good for the economy. President Joe Biden has described the mammoth spending package as "a smart investment" that will "pay dividends" to U.S. security interests. Likewise, Assistant Secretary of State James O’Brien described the supplemental as "a very good bargain." Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the money will "flow through our defense industrial base, creating American jobs in more than 30 states." However, many are skeptical of the administration’s claims and believe that the massive investment in the defense industry will squander the nation’s ability to adequately address social and infrastructure needs. Presidential hopeful Robert Kennedy Jr. is among them. "Creating jobs is a poor excuse for a foreign policy that wreaks mayhem around the world," Mr. Kennedy told The Epoch Times in an email. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 (1) The guys who sell the weapons. (2) The guys who 'supervise' the the cleanup and rebuild. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2023-11-29 09:03 |
| #4 They haven't figured out they can't control the natural environment of chaos which is the world. You can nudge and influence but you can not in the end control. You also do a lot less nudging and influencing when you install a weak puppet in a position of high responsibility. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2023-11-29 08:37 |
| #3 Someone connected to the Bidens is my guess. |
| Posted by: Tom 2023-11-29 08:09 |
| #2 Who really Benefits? A rhetorical question of course. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-11-29 07:15 |
| #1 Who? Why, the spenders. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-11-29 07:13 |