My final stimulus blog post will be up soon after I've had a chance to look at the damn thing. All I can find are partial cost reports from appropriations committees and a 100 MB file of the gigantic bill in a rough .pdf copy form. However, while you're waiting I would like you all to watch this video from Congressman Ron Paul.
Foreign policy affects the economy? Yes, it does. What happens to hundreds of billions of dollars in our budget? The taxpayer money goes to overseas bases, pointless wars, troop deployments founded on acute paranoia. The money goes to a foreign policy of imperialism, fear, and warmongering.
Cyril, where are you on this one?
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Well I just finished writing a 6 page paper on blowback and I came to the conclusion that Ron Paul is wrong. He makes no sense, and is an insane old man. Right?
ReplyDeleteIn all seriousness, I'm right here with you Chris. Ron Paul is absolutely right, but until something truly devastating causes the American people to realize why we're hated, nothing will change. And it's unfortunate.
I just think that there really needs to be better dialogue about this issue. It's plain that the two parties are just very slight variations of each other in this regard. Obama is sending 30,000 more US troops into Afghanistan. For all his talk about how he would have voted against the Iraq War and how he would move to get US troops out.... he approves this Pentagon plan?
ReplyDeleteMoving troops from Iraq to Afghanistan isn't making progress. It's not like they're still fighting a ground war in Iraq. It's going to be the exact same duties in Afghanistan: patrol the streets, keep order, wait for something to justify conflict.
It seems that almost all politicians are gravitating towards the middle (depending on the issue I suppose; dems are probably going severely more left on the economy). But, compromise isn't always the best course of action. However... it's the best course of action if you wanna get votes. We need to wake up to the ridiculous notion that deploying American "peacemakers" actually makes peace. And, damn it, that is not where our taxes should be going.
P.S. thanks Doug. Our foreign policy is often inseparable from our economic interests as you began to describe. So it's good to keep an eye on both things.