Saturday, January 25, 2014

The militarized economy flowchart

Money is extracted from the American people —> politicians give it to a bomb maker (who donates to their campaigns in return) —> the bombs needlessly blow up people and destroy property —> Americans are now poorer, having lost the cost of building the bomb and the opportunity cost of not building something useful —> the bill arrives for the next batch of bombs. Repeat.

Bomb makers love this system. Families of dead/wounded innocents and American soldiers, as well as all of us that pay to build useless things and blow them up, don't.

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