Who Gets Left Holding the Bag?

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Who Gets Left Holding the Bag?
By Timothy Gatto
OpEdNews Op Eds 9/20/2014 at 02:47:26

Let's all admit it, the wars we have been fighting in the Middle East have been for resources, mostly oil. When something happens in other parts of the World that are devoid of resources, we invariably ignore it. One only has to look at the situation in Darfur, where people were starving en masse, and we turned a blind eye. If the country isn't in a strategic area, or it has no resources we want, we ignore whatever is happening there.

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So what is Washington to do? I'm glad I'm not the President because I have no answer for him. Maybe he can sell off some of our $13 Billion Dollar aircraft carriers. We have 12 of them. China only has one, much smaller than ours, maybe they will buy it.

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We could adopt the Chinese model and pull our missiles, tanks, drones and troops out of all the countries they now can be found in and replace them with department stores full of US products. We could cut the military budget in half and take that money and loan it to nations that need it to employ US construction companies and architects to build their infrastructure at fair prices and fair interest on the money we loan them.

The truth is that it is probably (although maybe not), too late. What the people in Washington want is power and money for their friends that got them elected. The current model is failing the country but the fact is that they are making too much money to stop. When the bottom falls out (and it will), it won't be the top 20% that are left holding the bag. It will be the bottom 80% that are left penniless. The top 10% will just move to China and invest in their stock market and go along as they always have.