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Repairs are being funded by the World Bank, which means that US contribution is less than 30% of the $300 million allocated for this, under $100 million. Compa
by danmaz74 10y ago
Repairs are being funded by the World Bank, which means that US contribution is less than 30% of the $300 million allocated for this, under $100 million.
Compare this to the money the USA has pumped into the war against nonexistent WMD in Iraq, and you'll see that the Mosul Dam repairs amount to almost nothing in the US expenses "for Iraq". And nothing compared to the total US yearly budget.
So, what was your point again?
- kwq7x8 10y agoI assume the general point is that the taxpayer will pay for all things that are "too big to fail", because we don't really have capitalism but a corporate welfare system. The military expenses are a fair point, but just another facet of the same underlying issue.
- madengr 10y agoThank you. That it's $100M spent on other countries infrastructure while ours rots.
- tonyedgecombe 10y agoYou can't go and trash a country and not take responsibility for it.
- macintux 10y agoTherefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee.
- _jal 10y agoSeem to remember someone at the time saying, "You break it, you bought it."
- macintux 10y agoI still remember when this issue of The Atlantic came out with this piece from Fallows. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/11/the-fifty-first-state/302612/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/11/the-fif...
- onion2k 10y agoIf the Mosul dam catastrophically fails it's estimated that over a million people will die. $100m is a very good investment to stop that.