Keiser Report-The Warfare Bankrupt States Of America

[maxkeiser]

Run time: 26:13 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccgycc-W1LQ   Posted on YouTube: September 11, 2010 By YouTube Member: itsalargeworld Views on YouTube: 26   Posted on DU: September 11, 2010 By DU Member: maxkeiser Views on DU: 644

 

[sakabatou]

1. Thank you captain obvious.

[truedelphi]

2. Oh Max, Max, how do you really feel...

Gotta say you often make me laugh. Not that your analysis is not spot on, but the image of Tony the Poodle is so apt.

[dotymed]

3. Wars are an unnecessary tragedy, but remember when

they were great for our economy?
Now, not even the dramatic increase of the buying of the "goods of war" affects the American economy in a positive way.
We do not produce anything. Communist China, Socialist Europe (hurray) and most third world nations, whose factories are mainly owned by American "investors", reap obscene profits (not the actual workers, of course) from the obscenity of war.
I remember during the late '60's, my Father (a professional soldier) explained to me how wars were good for our economy. but not so good for the people actually involved in the war...
Now it is GREAT for a few select, politically connected wealthy individuals, but terrible for everyone else. Of course the people who are in "the war zone" still have it the toughest of anyone. I really cannot go on about how our money SHOULD be spent to benefit America, we ALL know, even the ones who are the loudest liars...

[truedelphi]

4. And it makes you wonder - If the USA is not profucing its own war goods -

Are they worthwhile goods?

I can not get a Chinese made garden hose to last three months (American made hoses lasted for years and years.)

And what if we should actually need to engage in a war with China? Will they have all the ammo that is quality controlled, while we have the rejects?

[dotymed]

6. Honestly,

I don't think they have any type of quality control, anything for a buck.

[izquierdista]

5. What advantage does the little guy have?

Diversity. That word that causes apoplexy in conservative circles. It's a funny thing, lawyers can go around claiming property, real or intellectual, like Daffy Duck finding the mother lode of treasure, but if mother nature wants to submerge the real property or attack the patented organism with a new disease, they are left with zilch. Monsanto's patented roundup-ready shit isn't going to be worth a plugged nickel when nature moves and splices those genes around as has been done for billions of years. All of the rich countries buying up cropland will be for naught when nature decides to change the sea level or the annual rainfall. Big corporations are the dinosaurs looking up at the asteroid. It is the little guy who plants heirloom varieties and keeps propagating his own strains who will survive.