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America should stop being World Police and be the biggest baddest Blackwater they can be. Stop paying for forward deployment, make your hosts pay. Replace everyone at OF-10 with Fortune 500 CEOs. America is a business, war is a business, run them like one. Don't other federal agencies generate at least some revenue? Time for the Pentagon to get back in the black. What legislation prohibits this and how is President Deals gonna make it happen?
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poo poo, bitch. You can't afford me.
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Nov 28, 2018 22:05
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we already do, OP
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Nov 28, 2018 22:08
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Yeah the US is already getting paid to do war, just not directly. For example bananas are considerably cheaper in the US than any other fruit specifically because the US military invades the Central American countries where the bananas are grown whenever the farmers start saying they might raise the prices of bananas.
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Nov 28, 2018 22:12
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if the us formally takes spoils, the benefits accrue to the polity as a whole if the us simply uses its military to secure favorable access to resources and markets, the costs are borne by all while the benefits accrue solely to capital
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Nov 29, 2018 01:53
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you're paying for us wars every time you buy something that was produced using energy from dollar-traded oil
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Nov 29, 2018 02:00
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this is a dumb idea unless im the one in charge of making all the money
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Nov 29, 2018 02:02
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TVsVeryOwn posted:America should stop being World Police and be the biggest baddest Blackwater they can be. Stop paying for forward deployment, make your hosts pay. Replace everyone at OF-10 with Fortune 500 CEOs. America is a business, war is a business, run them like one. Don't other federal agencies generate at least some revenue? Time for the Pentagon to get back in the black. because then the money would go to the American government, instead of disappearing into a maze of bribery, corruption, and embezzlement that leads to the pockets of top officials
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Nov 30, 2018 04:30
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The US military are already mercenaries for the highest bidder?
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Dec 1, 2018 05:36
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Main Paineframe posted:because then the money would go to the American government, instead of disappearing into a maze of bribery, corruption, and embezzlement that leads to the pockets of top officials where would the money go after it reaches the american government
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Dec 1, 2018 07:52
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Trump promised he would do this several times on the campaign trail so unfortunately this mean it won't happen
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Dec 1, 2018 07:57
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Prav posted:where would the money go after it reaches the american government
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Dec 1, 2018 08:27
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the saudis actually did pay the us for the first gulf war
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Dec 1, 2018 08:56
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As did Europe after ww2. Everybody pays, or at least, they used to 
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Dec 1, 2018 09:22
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Prav posted:where would the money go after it reaches the american government it's a lot easier to launder the money if it never reaches the government in the first place
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We already do this. This is what makes the MIC work. We buy poo poo from other countries. We pay in dollars. Now they have dollars, but the only thing we exchange for our dollars is US Treasuries (in most cases). The US Treasuries float the war debt that sustains the Empire.
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Main Paineframe posted:it's a lot easier to launder the money if it never reaches the government in the first place i'm looking at the federal budget rn and it looks pretty straightforward. you don't need to launder money when you can just sell services to the dod
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Dec 1, 2018 19:51
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Prav posted:i'm looking at the federal budget rn and it looks pretty straightforward. you don't need to launder money when you can just sell services to the dod cutting out the middleman makes the grift more efficient and easier to hide for example, i'm pretty sure Halliburton made tons more off Iraqi oil contracts than they did from their US military contracts in Iraq and embezzling from the US government led to embarrassing incidents like getting caught purposely "losing" massive pallets of cash on Iraqi runways
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that is the most Ron Paul thing ever and it's going to be standard in 10 years
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