[quote=pri_dk][quote=CA renter]Let’s also not forget that one of the primary jobs of our military is to force foreign markets to remain open for US businesses (either so we can sell into it or exploit their resources — including labor) and to keep the sea lanes open for US business interests. It has very little to do with protecting Joe Sixpack’s “freedom.”[/quote]
Just a couple of days ago you were spouting about how the economies of our Cold War adversaries collapsed solely because of US trade embargoes.
Today you are claiming that the military is about “forcing their markets to remain open.”
Which one is it? (don’t bother to answer, please)
You do know that people in the military are government employees?
Patent and trade enforcement? Government employees.
Where does Joe six-pack work, BTW?
Probably Qualcomm if he lives around here. (Do you think Qualcomm cares about patents?) Maybe Microsoft. Maybe he’s an engineer at Apple. Maybe an assembly line at GM. Maybe his wife Suzie works in HR at GE.
Most likely he works at one of the thousands of large companies that employ millions of Joe and Suzie six packs and sell their products here and all over the world.
But apparently it’s all evil, so let’s shut it all down.
Let’s make them get other jobs, working for the government, because there wouldn’t be many other alternatives. (But only the parts of the government that you find agreeable.)
They can find jobs paid with taxpayer money.
Hey, where did all the taxpayers go?
It’s amazing, we still have Useful Idiots in the 21st Century.[/quote]
Indeed, Useful Idiots who support the very entities that are trying to destroy them — those who have decimated manufacturing in this country, and who have amassed great wealth as a result, and who are trying to destroy whatever little is left of the middle class in the US. Keep pimping for those who have created a system where all the wealth is driven to the top and who are trying to create conditions that will further accelerate and intensify this wealth/income disparity. Keep on pimping, Pri.
Also, I never said that Russia collapsed solely because of trade embargoes; we forced them into putting a tremendous amout of their resources into their military/national defense, too.
BTW, do you know **why** we turned against Russia? Figure that out, and you’ll understand why those points you posted above are perfectly consistent. I won’t bother you with those “pesky” posts and links. You’ll have to look it up yourself.
[edit: When I say we force other countries to “open their markets,” I mean we want them to open their markets on OUR terms.]
