[lbo-talk] RE HOW THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT IS BLOWING IT: REVISITED

[Michael Dawson -PSU]

-> What evidence is there that US "imperial" adventures raise income levels
for
> anyone other than, say, defense contractors and their employees?
>
> -- Luke

You're joking, right?  The U.S. military not only pumps $400 billion a year
into the world economy that otherwise wouldn't be there, it also polices
cheap oil, which is the basis for the the autos-ueber-alles transportation
systems of North America, which, in turn probably account for 33 percent of
GDP here, Canada included.

This is all without even mentioning the more general policing of the Third
World and its cheap commodity exports.

And Canadians imagine we're the only deluded ones!