Ron Paul: "We Spent a Billion Dollars Fighting the Houthis…and Lost' - Kotaku In Action 2

Ron Paul: "We Spent a Billion Dollars Fighting the Houthis…and Lost' (ronpaulinstitute.org)

posted 147 days ago by BollocksToBolsheviks 147 days ago by BollocksToBolsheviks +51 / -0

We Spent a Billion Dollars Fighting the Houthis…and Lost - The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity

Why does it seem the Pentagon is far better at spending money than actually putting together a successful operation? The failed “Operation Prosperity Guardian” and the disastrous floating Gaza pier are but two recent examples of enormously expensive initia...

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– HallucinatoryBeing 4 points 147 days ago +4 / -0

Taiwan Semiconductor just finished building one fab in Japan and is ready to build a second one by the end of 2024. Meanwhile, production in the Arizona plant is delayed until 2025 and the company can't find anyone to hire except low-IQ, CHIPS Act-mandated DEIversity™.

We don't make anything in this fucking country, and the few shit that we do are literally falling from the sky. America's main industries are paper-pushing (a.k.a. finance, law) and rent-seeking (a.k.a. tech, services). We're a post-developed economy of grifters and con artists trying to grift and con other grifters and con artists.

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