Guns vs. Butter. The old macro economic dilemma. Endless wars set our nation back.

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Opinion: Endless Wars Like Afghanistan are Why America Lags Behind



It was no surprise that Republicans had to be pulled kicking and screaming into an agreement to pass a 1 trillion dollar infrastructure bill. It is certain that neither the cost of investing in America nor the nation’s deficit was the issue; not when Republicans eagerly passed tax cuts for the rich that added to the deficit, or appropriated trillions of borrowed money for two undeclared wars.
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“Endless war(s) create enormous fortunes for investors in the military-industrial complex.”
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And as Johnston’s piece notes, those wars, like the Afghanistan conflict, rob Americans of a society, an economy, and a quality life that a nation like China now enjoys.
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While America has been borrowing trillions to fight forever wars to benefit the military industrial complex, and barely investing 1.3 % of the economy for infrastructure, schools, hospitals and the public good, China invests over 5.5% of its economy on its infrastructure. An investment, by the way, that benefits the people of China as well as that communist nation’s economy. - PoliticusUSA

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1. Yes.

And we're over here tying our crumbling skyscrapers up with lots of rope, driving our cars off broken and unfinished interstate highway overpasses, and watering our grass with Brawndo. We are an embarrassment to humankind, but we're too stupid to realize it.

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2. I agree. We boast about our way of life & freedoms, but "The greatest country on earth" moniker is

just smoke and mirrors.