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Much of that money was borrowed. Still, that alternate universe where we didn’t waste money on two wars of occupation on the other side of the world, didn’t ba
by SllX 6y ago
Much of that money was borrowed.
Still, that alternate universe where we didn’t waste money on two wars of occupation on the other side of the world, didn’t bail out loads of banks and large corporations during the financial crisis and weren’t actively looking to spend more money on unnecessary crap, with the top notch infrastructure minus the enormous cost overruns and CEQA and CEQA-like review processes of the past 20 years, must be pretty nice. Maybe they even kept their Nuclear Arsenal up to date, didn’t kill the F-22 and kept their medical stockpiles in stock and in good condition.
- roenxi 6y ago> Much of that money was borrowed. I'm not seeing how that is relevant. There are boots on the ground & bombs in the air. Someone is fronting real resources. There is no possible return on these resources. In fact, the return is negative since the US is taking fairly normal Middle Easterners and presumably making enemies for life. A situation has been set up that is even worse than borrowing resources to support an unproductive and unsustainable lifestyle. This is borrowing resources to ruin random strangers lives. Those resources could have been used for any inane project and literally everyone is better off.
- SllX 6y agoI’m arguing that not borrowing and spending money on two foreign wars of occupation does not automatically lend itself to permission for borrowing and spending money on something else instead. I think we are basically in agreement otherwise, unless you want to argue the details.