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I know someone who grew up near a US base in the Philippines. Her father was employed as a cook at the base. When the base was closed, they went back to eeki
by c_o_n_v_e_x 3y ago
I know someone who grew up near a US base in the Philippines.
Her father was employed as a cook at the base. When the base was closed, they went back to eeking out a living through subsistence farming.
There are some positive economic impacts for the locals.
- mc32 3y agoThen there is Okinawa and like a thorn, despite all their rejection, we remain unwelcome squatters.
- refurb 3y agoI mean, starting a war comes at a cost sometimes.
- jcranmer 3y agoWell, it depends on which "they" you're referring to. The Japanese love hosting the US bases there, except that Okinawa is to Japan largely as Puerto Rico is to the US, and the Okinawans themselves are quite unhappy to be the actual hosts (surely not helped by soldiers' predilections for raping local girls).
- ted_bunny 3y agoCapitalism good according to capitalism
- cscurmudgeon 3y agoLook at the bourgeoisie! -- Socialism pointing at subsistence farmers happy at earning a good wage
- Mat3777 3y agoThat's how it works ruling class makes up the "party line"
- cscurmudgeon 3y ago[flagged]
- rtpg 3y agohttps://dc-office.org/basedata#p5 https://dc-office.org/basedata#p5 I highly recommend reading the Okinawa prefectural government's DC office fact sheet. Short story: There'd be a lot more useful economic activity from developing the land these bases are on. (Okinawa has DC offices because the prefecture and the Japanese mainland gov't are not aligned on these topics at all. The prefecture basically wants these bases gone, and don't really want SDF bases there either. Tokyo wants the bases.)