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Means nothing.
If you think war enriches a nation, you’re a fool.
And pull yourself out of the great depression, equipping the allies in World War II. ...
Dumb. Mass murder to increase your economy is the desire of a psychopath.It means the USA doubled their economy with World War 1.
It existed Germanic tribes who threw everything what they made with war into the swamps. Weapons - gold - everything. They had been convinced it is wrong to make money with war.
Dumb. Mass murder to increase your economy is the desire of a psychopath.
... Time to invest in the future. Raise taxes on the wealthy,
Please read and logically dispute the following.
America is a stratocracy, a form of government dominated by the military. It is axiomatic among the two ruling parties that there must be a constant preparation for war. The war machine’s massive budgets are sacrosanct. Its billions of dollars in waste and fraud are ignored. Its military fiascos in Southeast Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East have disappeared into the vast cavern of historical amnesia. This amnesia, which means there is never accountability, licenses the war machine to economically disembowel the country and drive the Empire into one self-defeating conflict after another. The militarists win every election. They cannot lose. It is impossible to vote against them. The war state is a Götterdämmerung, as Dwight Macdonald writes, “without the gods.”
America is a stratocracy, a form of government dominated by the military. It is axiomatic among the two ruling parties that there must be a constant preparation for war. The war machine’s massive budgets are sacrosanct. Its billions of dollars in waste and fraud are ignored. Its military fiascos in Southeast Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East have disappeared into the vast cavern of historical amnesia. This amnesia, which means there is never accountability, licenses the war machine to economically disembowel the country and drive the Empire into one self-defeating conflict after another. The militarists win every election. They cannot lose. It is impossible to vote against them. The war state is a Götterdämmerung, as Dwight Macdonald writes, “without the gods.”
Since the end of the Second World War, the federal government has spent more than half its tax dollars on past, current and future military operations. It is the largest single sustaining activity of the government. Military systems are sold before they are produced with guarantees that huge cost overruns will be covered. Foreign aid is contingent on buying U.S. weapons. Egypt, which receives some $1.3 billion in foreign military financing, is required to devote it to buying and maintaining U.S. weapons systems. Israel has received $158 billion in bilateral assistance from the U.S. since 1949, almost all of it since 1971 in the form of military aid, with most of it going towards arms purchases from U.S. weapons manufacturers. The American public funds the research, development and building of weapons systems and then buys these same weapons systems on behalf of foreign governments. It is a circular system of corporate welfare.
Between October 2021 and September 2022, the U.S. spent $877 billion on the military, that’s more than the next 10 countries, including China, Russia, Germany, France and the United Kingdom combined. These huge military expenditures, along with the rising costs of a for-profit healthcare system, have driven the U.S. national debt to over $31 trillion, nearly $5 trillion more than the U.S.’s entire Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This imbalance is not sustainable, especially once the dollar is no longer the world’s reserve currency.
In the US, far too many fall for the divisive tactics utilized against them by government, media, academia, and Hollywood. These Americans hate their fellow Americans when we should all unite and focus that hate where it belongs.
By the way: We have the highest taxes and costs in the whole world.
Get rid of democrats.Without blaming "the Other Side", can anyone see a way out of this mess?
Did you just wake up from another nightmare ......
The USA is a republic (no nobles) and a democracy (elections, one man one vote). What this has to do with the political parties "the Republicans" and "the Democrats" is a totally other theme. Your problem in this context is the British "the winner takes it all"-mentality - that's why you have only two political parties.
You are right, we do have other political parties but a majority of Americans choose either Republican or Democrat.America has many more than just two political parties.
Undear idiot mine: Germans always loved the USA - a very long time before Hitler came and also after Hitler was gone. Your ally in world war 2 had been Stalin - and your big victory had been that you gave a big part of Europe and Asia to the Russian and Chinese Soviets. What a luck that you never had a problem with your Russian and Chinese friends - but you have a titanic problem with your enemies Germany and Europe.
What an ignoranimus...
No, thanks for asking.
We don't need luck. Few people realize this, but American citizens have always had the constitutional authority to be directly involved with our lawmaking process. It is only our negligence that permits partisan politicians to assume that authority.That would help to make representation more representative, which is the soul of representative democracy. Other measures that would be required are to increase the number of representatives per capita and to remove the Electoral College and the Senate.
Good luck with any of that.
We have two MAJOR(large~main) political parties, and several smaller "third" parties. Next most largest of the "thirds" is likely the Libertarian. The two major parties in essence rally around the polarity of the political ideologies; conservative vs progressive/liberal, and given the nature of elections requiring money for campaigning: signs, literature, tv/radio ads, travel to rallies, etc. things have settled onto the two major parties in the last century. USA history shows a full past of other major parties, and occasional minor third ones that had brief major influence.The USA is a republic (no nobles) and a democracy (elections, one man one vote). What this has to do with the political parties "the Republicans" and "the Democrats" is a totally other theme. Your problem in this context is the British "the winner takes it all"-mentality - that's why you have only two political parties.
Nah. I am a liberal who is well into the 1% land.. I win either way. Either I elect people with my values (democrats) or I lose and watch the shitheads (republicans) make my life easier to keep consolidating my wealth at the expense of the people that voted for them… I win either way.Lol, you need a big mirror pal.
Good luck with that.We don't need luck. Few people realize this, but American citizens have always had the constitutional authority to be directly involved with our lawmaking process. It is only our negligence that permits partisan politicians to assume that authority.
Why sure you are....All of us here are millionaires...Didn't you know that?Nah. I am a liberal who is well into the 1% land.. I win either way. Either I elect people with my values (democrats) or I lose and watch the shitheads (republicans) make my life easier to keep consolidating my wealth at the expense of the people that voted for them… I win either way.
When was the last time you voted on a federal law?A failure of a democracy is a failure of its people. Look at us! Are we Americans the stupidest people on the planet? A democracy requires agreement among the people, yet we can't even agree that we even are a democracy.
