Ron Paul's Foreign Policy Puts War Profiteers out of Business

[knarf]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbkP743PVuQ

[moderate libertarian]

Yes it does.

[knarf]

yep

[bluesc]

More truth bombs from Dr. Scheuer there. If anyone knows what kinda reach Israel has, it's him.

[onlyrp]

yes, we want to make more Americans unemployed, we haven't done enough of that with outsourcing and immigration.

[bluesc]

yes, we want to make more Americans unemployed, we haven't done enough of that with outsourcing and immigration.

Yes, we want to kill millions of little brown children so that some Americans can remain employed building the weapons of war.

[flightlesskiwi]

Yes, we want to kill millions of little brown children so that some Americans can remain employed building the weapons of war.

we have so much broken down, overused, sand-infected military equipment, not to mention that after 10 years of "shock and awe" our armament stores are depleted... yeah, i don't think the whole "American unemployment" thing plays out very well.

end the wars. bring home the troops. peace and prosperity FTW.

[bluesc]

we have so much broken down, overused, sand-infected military equipment, not to mention that after 10 years of "shock and awe" our armament stores are depleted... yeah, i don't think the whole "American unemployment" thing plays out very well.

end the wars. bring home the troops. peace and prosperity FTW.

Yeah, I should correct it.. Yes, we want to kill millions of little brown children so that some Americans can remain employed building the weapons of The Cold War.

Ron has mentioned countless times that he wants to modernize the military. He likes aircraft carriers, he likes nuclear subs, etc.

[awake]

Actually the people making weapons of "defense" (mass murder) would get redeployed to other industries and lines of work better serving the wants and needs of thier fellow man. It is more clearly a transfer of labor, not the death sentence most people make unemployment/re-employment out to be.

[Kingfisher]

Yes, we want to kill millions of little brown children so that some Americans can remain employed building the weapons of war.

And our own young men and women dying for the military industrial complex and the New World Order.

[DamianTV]

While it is true that we have lost several thousand people due to the wars, the "Collateral Damage" in terms of number of human lives in Non American Non Combatants (again, they are human beings) is much much higher. Some have shown estimates in hundreds of thousands, other estimates show almost a million. A million human beings killed for the profiteering war mongering financial interests is nothing short of what Germany did to those simply accused of being Jews. This didnt start with 9/11. It has been going on since the 1950's, and probably much earlier. We rig their System of Government, we force them to accept Central Banks, we install Leaders (Khaddafi was one), we destablize their entire countries so they can do us the favor of blowing themselves up for us. And we do it all because War is Profitalbe to the Financial Elite.

And we "wonder" why they hate us.

[vechorik]

Know what's going on in Afghanistan right now? Destruction of equipment that was taken -- too expensive to bring back -- all being destroyed. One Iraq veteran had to go to back, this time to Afghanistan to "blow our stuff up" Yesterday, he posted the Declaration of Independence on his FB.

[Feeding the Abscess]

Actually the people making weapons of "defense" (mass murder) would get redeployed to other industries and lines of work better serving the wants and needs of thier fellow man. It is more clearly a transfer of labor, not the death sentence most people make unemployment/re-employment out to be.

Beautifully stated.

[flightlesskiwi]

Actually the people making weapons of "defense" (mass murder) would get redeployed to other industries and lines of work better serving the wants and needs of thier fellow man. It is more clearly a transfer of labor, not the death sentence most people make unemployment/re-employment out to be.

(at least) 4 trillion dollar broken window fallacy FTW! 4 trillion that the US never had and never will have.


Know what's going on in Afghanistan right now? Destruction of equipment that was taken -- too expensive to bring back -- all being destroyed. One Iraq veteran had to go to back, this time to Afghanistan to "blow our stuff up" Yesterday, he posted the Declaration of Independence on his FB.

that happens with every "conflict." it's rather disturbing when one sits down to think about it. it was cost effective and "worth it" to ship all the stuff over, but to hell with it being cost effective and "worth it" to ship back. let the taxpayers (or, really the government-debt-slaves as we should all rename ourselves) pay for the new stuff!! i guess after 10 years of accumulation, it "just makes sense."

[Travlyr]

War is good for the economy. Jobs... jobs... jobs, and at $100/hammer... huge profits for defense contractors.

[flightlesskiwi]

War is good for the economy. Jobs... jobs... jobs, and at $100/hammer... hugh profits for defense contractors.

it is a racket!!

racket for the ratchets!!

[The Free Hornet]

yes, we want to make more Americans unemployed, we haven't done enough of that with outsourcing and immigration.

Hi onlyrp, would we better off had all the contractors been building hospitals, schools, houses, factories, roadways, and bridges here in America? Imagine all the extra "stuff" we could have. How much lower could medical bills be and how much would service be improved had 20% of the military recruits went into the medical field in some capacity? Could we use more farmers and chefs and personal fitness trainers?

What does it profit us to tax you and me, devalue our currency, and load us down with debt so we can build a bomb to blow up something or someone in the Middle East which only increases the likilihood that they will retailiate - here or abroad, but more likely abroad - and not engage in profitable commerce?

[Voluntary Man]

"[E]very one concerned in supplying the army finds means, in the doing it, to fill his own pockets."

www.fullbooks.com/The-Autobiography-of-Benjamin-Franklin4.html