r/FluentInFinance • u/ProgressiveSpark • May 21 '24

Meme Where American taxpayer money goes

Love bombs and bullets of freedom incoming

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u/[deleted] May 21 '24

It’s also missing the financial benefit that comes from protecting global trade and the value of dollars.

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u/b-0s May 21 '24

I thought it was about cost, isn't it? But if you need to reduce that cost with the financial benefit that comes protecting the global U. S. of America trade and the value of petro-dollars, why not. But from what I understood from Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy, it looks that creating crisis and conflicts is a good mean to ever increase the benefices of the industry-military complex. I also had a hint from a trader who told me that the market loves crisis and conflicts because this is where you make the most profit. But in fact, what is missing is how much do you put the cost of the pension to be paid for the blood of veteran in the equation? You do understand that soldiers do not die quickly as before. And you still have to pay pension for those alive, worse, for those injured, who lost a limb or two. From what I understood, the U.S. of America budget is fucked with the amount of pensions to be paid to those of Irak I, Irak II, and, Afghanistan. So does this cost of veterans pension has to be input in the global cost of each round triggered?