I dont think he understands what money laundering is.
Are foreign wars just a way to launder money for the elite?
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I dont think he understands what money laundering is.
Taking money and producing an invoice but not the product is one example.
He has no idea about that for sure. Or anything else for that matter.....
then no, it is not and I still have no idea why you would think so.
You have no idea!
I believe the large contractors are doing it.
No idea how little you know about anything? Trust me. I certainly do. As well as anyone with more than an elementary school education after they read any of your bullshit.
If you say so.... you voted for Trump, so I doubt it.
Once again idiot, you are wrong. I voted for neither candidate. Too fucking stupid like you.
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Sailor flunked out of 7th grade.
Im shocked he made it that far.
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Being generous.
This is quite laughable coming from two confirmed welfare collecting democrat liars. Piss poor attempt. That is truly is all democrats have now.
I don't think so. I'm thinking particularly about Thomas Piketty's book "Capital in the Twenty-First Century," which came out about nine years ago. It's a heavy tome, but well worth a read.
Anyway, one of the things it does is to look into historical growth of wealth inequality. One of his central arguments is that the default under capitalism is for the rich to get richer, relative to everyone else, but that this general trend is punctuated from time to time by crises that actually narrow that inequality.... and war is one of those.
It seems counter-intuitive, but check out this graph:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capit...tury#/media/File:Top1percentIncomePiketty.png
You can see that long periods of relative peace, like from the end of the Vietnam War to the star of the War on Terrorism, were periods of pretty steady and dramatic increase, when it comes to the percentage of income held by the top 1% in the US. Meanwhile, WWI and WWII both were periods when that percentage fell (as well as the early part of the Great Depression, which is another crisis that hit the wealthy particularly hard.... and the first part of the War on Terrorism, too). And, as I recall, similar patterns exist before that -- like the Southern aristocracy had its wealth levels rise greatly in the decades between the War of 1812 and the start of the Civil War, but then that went into free-fall during the Civil War.
Now, that doesn't mean that SOME members of the elite don't get much richer as a result of wars. If you're in arms manufacture or certain other key industries, there's opportunity there. But for the most part, wars make the rich poorer, by disrupting the normal pattern of capital out-earning labor. That, of course, isn't a defense of war, but I think it's important to recognize what's going on. If the elite foments war with the idea it'll make them richer, they could use a history lesson.
Hell must have just froze over. Yes....for the most part I agree with you. And Ukraine? Thats one big wash machine baby!
So Jane Fonda and John Kerry were correct?
Lets not get carried away now....LOL The key words in my statement were FOR THE MOST PART. There are several nuances involved in it that I am quite frankly WAYYYYYYYYY to tired to discuss today.
We are considered useless eaters.
When I say that our leaders are infants that is only an exaggeration....they are children....they behave like children......war is fun if you dont give a fuck about anything but satisfying your savage impulses.
Which is where we are.