How bad has the military-industrial complex gotten? The arms industry donates tens of millions of dollars every election cycle, and the average taxpayer spends $1,087 per year on weapons contractors compared to just $270 for K-12 education.
The Military-Industrial Complex Has Never Been Worse
Chinese companies are building 1,000 new schools in Iraq to accomodate the growing number of students, which will bridge the education gap in the country still reeling from long years of war and destruction.
Building for future: Chinese construction companies help bridge Iraq’s education gap
It’s beyond pathetic that the US government destroyed both Iraq, and Afghanistan, yet can’t rebuild what they destroyed! They won’t rebuild Ukraine, either!
“Autocrats only understand one word: no, no, no. No you will not take my country, no you will not take my freedom, no you will not take my future… A dictator bent on rebuilding an empire will never be able to ease the people’s love of liberty. Brutality will never grind down the will of the free.”—President Biden
Oh, the hypocrisy.
Endless Wars Are the Enemy of Freedom
‘To Save Money, Maybe You Should Skip Breakfast’ WSJ Headline
Related:
To Save Money, Maybe You Should Skip Breakfast
Breakfast lovers might be better off just having a cup of coffee—but go with roasted, not instant. Prices for roasted coffee declined by 0.1% last month, but instant coffee rose by a 3.6% monthly increase for instant coffee.
I thought that breakfast was the most important meal of the day?!
There is no reason to trust a longtime corporate stooge to serve as President Biden’s chief of staff.
The Myth of Jeffrey Zients
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Pentagon Profiteers: Executive Compensation in the Arms Industry
Another way to understand the size of CEO compensation at the big contractors is to look at how many jobs would be created if that $287 million were spent on something else. The answer is that spending that money on productive activities would create thousands of jobs: 2,812 jobs in clean energy or infrastructure; 4,104 jobs in health care; and 4,362 in education, calculated using data on the jobs impact of government spending generated by Heidi Peltier for the Brown Costs of War Project.
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: October 27, 2022
At Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s press conference on September 21, he made a remark that went unchallenged by the bevy of reporters in attendance. Powell said this:
Fed’s Powell Calls U.S. Economy “Robust” as Personal Savings Rate Collapses to Same Level as in Financial Crisis of 2008
The last year of inflation has disproportionately hurt low-income and nonwhite families — those with the least flexibility in their monthly budgets to absorb higher prices.
Is the cure for inflation worse than the disease?
Washington is selling gas to the EU for four times what it charges at home, the French finance minister says
US taking advantage of EU energy crisis – Paris
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