Also, unfortunately, today many of the weapon systems we resell were NOT made fully in the USA.
Just as the shovel-ready projects we have "greenlighted" with the stimulus are using Chinese steel, and illegal immigrant labor, we are borrowing foreign money (China) to line the pockets of the rich business owners, who are creating a handful of jobs, but moving most of their business overseas. You couldn't get a 12 year old with a basic understanding of money to believe what we do to ourselves. On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Michael Dinowitz < mdino...@houseoffusion.com> wrote: > > Very nice and it touches on a tiny but important issue - military aid. If > the US gave Egypt more economic aid than military, this problem might have > been avoided. 1.3 BILLION is a lot of money, even if it's mostly virtual. > > We play these games all over the place. We give military aid to Egypt (who > still plans and expects to have a war with Israel), we give military aid to > Israel to balance out their enemies, we give military aid to everyone. And > the reason we give it is because they have to spend most of it on American > military hardware. So the US government is giving money to another country > who will in turn give it to US weapons manufacturers. > > And the scary thing is if the Egyptian government falls, who will have > their > hands on billions of dollars worth of high tech weapons? > > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Vivec <gel21...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Good explanation of what has happened and is happening in Egypt, and why: > > > > http://promotingpeace.tumblr.com/post/2969260999 > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:333761 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
