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The Pentagon Strangles Our Economy: Why the U.S. is Broke
alternet.org — 60 years of enormous military spending is taking a dramatic toll on the rest of the economy. The military adventurers in the Bush administration have much in common with the corporate leaders of the defunct energy company Enron. Both groups thought that they were the "smartest guys in the room."
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- fairley7, on 04/26/2008, -3/+5Another story just posted on Digg says that the US is planning to revive the 4th Fleet, to patrol the Caribbean. I really feel threatened by those Bahamans and those Granadans! I wonder how many billions of dollars the US will piss down the toilet on this one.
- DanThePainter, on 04/27/2008, -4/+3Another way of looking at the data:
http://www.truthandpolitics.org/military-relative- ...- purdueAl, on 04/27/2008, -2/+2These numbers are obviously low ball numbers taken from the government, an issue the article addresses. They also contradict the article with no real sources. Did you even read the story?
- Shutty, on 05/14/2008, -0/+0And it doesn't change the fact made below by Calamier. I quote "the US spends more than every superpower in the world, put together...Times 2"
- PaDM, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2Chalmers Johnson (author) is truly one of the smartest guys in the room - he predicted that the USA was a 'painted target for terrorism' 1-1/2 years before 9/11 in his book 'Blowback.'
- Calamier, on 04/27/2008, -0/+3So basically, the US spends more than every superpower in the world, put together...Times 2.
Awesome. - PaDM, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1... and because of the blowback, this enormous 'defense' spending makes us more defenseless.
Ron Paul talks about this in his new book 'The Revolution: A Manifesto.' - fantasticfoe, on 04/28/2008, -0/+0How did we get to the point that we would ever think protecting ourselves was more important then living?
- asus2000, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1Only Ron Paul would have made a difference. We are so *****. The world is ***** as we implode and have nothing but smart bombs left to try and recover with. Oh yeah, and as the largest exporter of porn, we've ***** the future too.
- Yawyaw, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1Ron Paul is still running. Where were you when you could have helped him?
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