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to be clear : the events of 9/11 were the impetus for war; not the motivation. that trillion estimate, one of the lower ones by the way, is a cost figure witho
by serf 4y ago
to be clear : the events of 9/11 were the impetus for war; not the motivation.
that trillion estimate, one of the lower ones by the way, is a cost figure without the associated profits and revenue. As horrible as it is and was, the 'military industrial complex', as a whole, profited incredibly -- this 'trickled down', a phrase I hate to use , all across the United States in the form of jobs from market players and call-for-bids across the nation to fill in niche topics (like airport security, for example) that were otherwise un-worked beforehand.
Another aside : the proof that airport security has changed anything for the better is scant at best, and corrupt at worst.
tl;dr : if you think any of the wars in the middle east were fought for the sake of 'American Safety', whatever that might be, then you're just not paying enough attention.
- SiempreViernes 4y agoI mean, a trillion spent is a trillion spent: it'll trickle down regardless of how you spend it, the question is if you could have spent it some other way that would have given more jobs?
- namdnay 4y agoIt was Bush - if it hadn’t been spent on Iraq it would have gone straight to tax cuts for the upper brackets. We’re talking about the guy who managed to tank the worlds healthiest budget
- MisterMower 4y agoI thought we were talking a miniature nuclear reactor…
- Jenk 4y agoNot if it is stashed away secretly avoiding tax and other contributions to society. https://www.forbes.com/sites/frederickallen/2012/07/23/super-rich-hide-21-trillion-offshore-study-says/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/frederickallen/2012/07/23/super...
- patmcc 4y agoA trillion spent building factories, highways, public housing, schools, etc. may employ exactly as many people as a trillion spent building weapons, dropping bombs, and killing people. What you end up with after spending that trillion is a bit different though.
- denton-scratch 4y ago> it'll trickle down regardless of how you spend it That's an article of conservative dogma dating from the Reagan and Bush eras, and it's pretty-much discredited now. For most major capital expenditure programmes, the majority of the money trickling down stops trickling once it reaches shareholders and executives.