We have a host of crippling economic evils in this country, more plagues than Yahweh visited upon Pharoh, and we are increasing our commitment to the fruitless conflict in Afghanistan. This is so self-evidently insane to me, that I'm actually almost struck dumb trying to counter those who argue that these horrendous expenditures are necessary. And now we've got serious discussion of widening the wars we're fighting by committing US troops to Pakistan and Yemen*.
"Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad." -- Friedrich Schiller
*It's a small commitment of troops being proposed for the moment, for "training." Do you really trust the Pentagon on something like this?
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I think that's close to what Joseph Stiglitz came up with, but then he added future costs, like care of the wounded soldiers, etc. over the next 50 years or more.
He settled on $3 trillion total, quite a bit up from Wolfowit'z imitation of General Buck Turgidson: A billion....Tops!!!
Did you hear about what happened to the fee on the banks? Check update II on the "Holy Mackerel" story from Tuesday. We are being drawn and quartered, sir. We're barbecue for the bastards with all the money. The world ends with a whimper.
The middle class is not being killed; it is being brought home from the taxidermist's.
It's all over, but the shouting...and the shooting.
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