Ron Paul is right. Military adventurism is a luxury we can no longer afford

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James Delingpole
London Telegraph
Sept 8, 2011

Ron Paul has got himself into trouble over his suggestion that if the US military stopped air con for its troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, it could save the treasury a whopping $20 billion a year. He remarked in the latest Republican presidential candidate debate in the Ronald Reagan Library:

I was astonished! We are spending twenty billion dollars on air conditioning for our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. I would take all that away, use ten billion to pay down the debt, and use the other ten toward FEMA and any other agency that we really need. And if you took that air conditioning away, those troops would come home very quickly, and I’d be happy with that.

It’s unlikely to endear him to the rump of US right: there are an awful lot of conservative apple pie moms out there whose boys (and girls) are proudly serving right now in sweaty, lethal hell holes where dysentery is a way of life. But Congressman Paul has never held back from telling it like it is and while his suggestion may be insensitive and tasteless, the broader point he is making is absolutely spot on. Foreign military adventures are a luxury the free West can no longer afford.

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To put Paul’s remarks into perspective, consider these shocking figures from Mark Steyn’s terminally bleak new masterpiece After America.

In 2010 the US spent about $663 billion on its military; China about $78 billion. How is it financing this massive expenditure? By borrowing money, mainly from China. Within a decade the US will be spending more of the federal budget on interest payments than it does on its armed services.

If today’s abnormally low interest rates return to their 1990 to 2010 average of 5.7 per cent, then America’s debt service projections for 2015 (that’s less than four years away, by the way) would increase from $290 billion to $847 billion. Steyn notes: “China would be in a position to quadruple its military budget and stick US taxpayers with the bill.”

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3 Responses to “Ron Paul is right. Military adventurism is a luxury we can no longer afford”

  1. Ron Paul is correct. The military industrial complex is intent on running and controlling the entire world. No war is too small for those criminals, and no one is safe from them. They conjure up some phony boogeyman, then declare war on the country he is on, and from there, it is merely a matter of how they kill that country’s citizens-either bombing, or phony “terror” attacks, or troops, or shelling from destroyers, or drones, or sending Israel, their military proxy to bomb and kill civilians.

  2. yes, ron paul is talking the right talk…..now.

    In the past his record of voting and his ideas made him look like the screwball he really is.

    The NWO global-elite-banksters have cleaned up his act for him and made him to be the “outside” candidate that could win, but does not matter IF he wins as EVERY candidate is already bought and paid for and will do what they are told or will be replaced very quickly as was kennedy.

    The only hope left for our country to RETURN to a constitutional rule is a very bloody civil war that will bring all the rich, greedy, sinners to their knees for the bullet that is their due for their treason.

    WE ARE AT WAR AFTER ALL, AND TREASON WHILE AT WAR REQUIRES THE DEATH PENALTY.

  3. “If today’s abnormally low interest rates return to their 1990 to 2010 average of 5.7 per cent, then America’s debt service projections for 2015 (that’s less than four years away, by the way) would increase from $290 billion to $847 billion.”

    Never mind the Euro mess, this alone will KILL future generations!!!

    Don’t be a debt slave. Unite behind RON PAUL! The pen is mightier than the sword!
    RON PAUL 2012 THE CHANGE YOU WANTED

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