10 thoughts on “We’ve spent $48 Billion in Afghanistan… just since we left”
This is awful. But if anyone thinks Musk and Vivek are going to do anything but redirect that money to themselves, they’re smoking fat rocks.
In the before time, 2008, Congress voted on actual budgets that everyone got to read. But even then if they wanted to “cut” spending, all that meant was a reduction in growth. Baseline budgeting has ruined the US government.
What is the check against Congress? The presidential veto. Yes, shut down the government. Yes, stop baseline budgeting. Yes, only spend what you receive in taxes.
This isn’t hard, but Trump is betting on smoke and mirrors to lull people into thinking he is doing something. He’d a monumental coward. And a murderer.
All the US has to do is stop printing money, stop spending money we don’t have and stop “free trading” with China. You don’t need tariffs, you just do basic econ 101. And you simply focus on your own country. Lord knows China and Russia are.
“Angela Merkel has just dropped a smoking gun into the pages of her new book. According to ‘Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021’, published on November 26, Berlin was fully aware that Washington wanted to kill off Nord Stream. And that it was just using Russia as a scapegoat to steal a massive new energy market for itself.
“The United States argued that its security interests were affected by the building of the pipeline because its ally Germany would make itself too dependent on Russia. In truth, I felt that the United States was mobilizing its formidable economic and financial resources to prevent the business ventures of other countries, even their allies,” Merkel writes.
“The United States was chiefly interested in its own economic interests, as it wanted to export to Europe LNG obtained through fracking.”
This pretty much establishes that it was by premeditated design that Washington leveraged the Russian military operation in Ukraine as a convenient pretext to turn economic competitor Germany – and the EU more generally – into a vassal. But Merkel’s successor, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and the rest of the German and European establishment, acted like Joe Biden was just coming to their rescue out of benevolence when he offered to sell them LNG to replace Russian gas – which turned out to cost several times the price, to the ongoing detriment of German and European industry and citizenry.
Biden had stood beside Scholz at a White House podium in February 2022, talking like a mafia boss, saying that “there will no longer be a Nord Stream 2” if Russia enters Ukraine. Then the pipeline just mysteriously blew up in September 2022. Germany still hasn’t found those responsible, though.”
This is awful. But if anyone thinks Musk and Vivek are going to do anything but redirect that money to themselves, they’re smoking fat rocks.
In the before time, 2008, Congress voted on actual budgets that everyone got to read. But even then if they wanted to “cut” spending, all that meant was a reduction in growth. Baseline budgeting has ruined the US government.
What is the check against Congress? The presidential veto. Yes, shut down the government. Yes, stop baseline budgeting. Yes, only spend what you receive in taxes.
This isn’t hard, but Trump is betting on smoke and mirrors to lull people into thinking he is doing something. He’d a monumental coward. And a murderer.
All these complaints about what Trump might not end up doing…
Yet, you’ve not mentioned one of the worst things he is doing?
Pushing through the Antisemitism Awareness Act that destroys the 1st Amendment for the sake of Israel?
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/12/01/the-return-of-status-based-law/
Mike’s a retard, who knew?
Classy, Mark. Your passive aggressiveness is showing.
Probably the CIA needs Afghan poppy production to keep going so it can continue to possess off-the-records budgets from the sales of heroin.
Winner!
Perhaps this could all be cleared up if we changed the name to the Department of Offense???
Meanwhile, between China and Saudi Arabia…
https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1859446480198828360
All the US has to do is stop printing money, stop spending money we don’t have and stop “free trading” with China. You don’t need tariffs, you just do basic econ 101. And you simply focus on your own country. Lord knows China and Russia are.
“Angela Merkel has just dropped a smoking gun into the pages of her new book. According to ‘Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021’, published on November 26, Berlin was fully aware that Washington wanted to kill off Nord Stream. And that it was just using Russia as a scapegoat to steal a massive new energy market for itself.
“The United States argued that its security interests were affected by the building of the pipeline because its ally Germany would make itself too dependent on Russia. In truth, I felt that the United States was mobilizing its formidable economic and financial resources to prevent the business ventures of other countries, even their allies,” Merkel writes.
“The United States was chiefly interested in its own economic interests, as it wanted to export to Europe LNG obtained through fracking.”
This pretty much establishes that it was by premeditated design that Washington leveraged the Russian military operation in Ukraine as a convenient pretext to turn economic competitor Germany – and the EU more generally – into a vassal. But Merkel’s successor, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and the rest of the German and European establishment, acted like Joe Biden was just coming to their rescue out of benevolence when he offered to sell them LNG to replace Russian gas – which turned out to cost several times the price, to the ongoing detriment of German and European industry and citizenry.
Biden had stood beside Scholz at a White House podium in February 2022, talking like a mafia boss, saying that “there will no longer be a Nord Stream 2” if Russia enters Ukraine. Then the pipeline just mysteriously blew up in September 2022. Germany still hasn’t found those responsible, though.”
https://www.rt.com/news/608402-merkel-us-nord-stream-narrative/