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Originally Posted by Robbie
1. The money could have been better "spent"??? How about not spent at all. As for money being spent to avert a depression...that was done anyway. So the money for the war did NOT affect the economy collapsing (as you originally said), and it had no bearing on the banks getting bailed out. They did.
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I would much prefer the money had not been spent or borrowed at all. We agree on that. My point remains, the fact that we did borrow and spend 1T in Iraq made it much harder to deal with the collapse caused by the banking meltdown. I didn't say it caused the crash, I said it made dealing with the crash much harder... which in the long run is no better.
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As for "the money will never be taxed" So fucking what? What does the gigantic federal govt., which gets more revenue now than at any time in history...taxing companies have to do with the economy? Do you really think that taxing people more is going to fix the economy?
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You tried to make the point that the money spent in Iraq somehow would help the economy. I disagree. The money spent in Iraq will have almost zero impact on our economy. Paying Raytheon to blow up Iraq and Haliburton to rebuild Iraq provides very little dollar for dollar benefit to our nation.
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2. Yes, I do think that Haliburton and Blackwater employ U.S. citizens. You know...jobs. But I was referring to defense contractors who make bullets, and guns, and missiles. And all the money spent transporting troops, etc. And yes, I agree the wars were the dumbest fucking thing EVER. But it had nothing to do with the economy collapsing in 2008 and the recession of 2009.
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Again Robbie... I didn't say the war caused the collapse. I said the war made it much harder to deal with the collapse. NOT spending 1T dollars, countless man hours and a tremendous amount of our attention in Iraq would have made it much easier to deal with the banking meltdown here in the United States. Any benefit to Haliburton will be unnoticeable to our economy and the 1T spent in Iraq could have been much better spent or not spent at all...
