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Maintaining over 700 military bases across the world, endless war (handouts to Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex companies), corporate welfare, foreign
by AntiTechTechie 8y ago
Maintaining over 700 military bases across the world, endless war (handouts to Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex companies), corporate welfare, foreign aid, public art, Africa, etc...
- dredmorbius 7y agoOK, that's a set of specifics, though for the first you might find much of that has some justification (economically, not necessarily morally) via geopolitics of both raw materials (petrochemical and the Harbord list) and trade. FYI the last three items amount to about 2% or less of Federal spending. All discretionary spending was 16% in 2016: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/U.S._Federal_Spending_-_FY_2016.svg/1280px-U.S._Federal_Spending_-_FY_2016.svg.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/U.... Excluding entitlements (Social Security, Medicare, debt service) it's still minuscule: http://memepoliceman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/viper-records.jpg http://memepoliceman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/viper-re...