Okay aside from the image it send out to the rest of the world Im talking about finances? The US is and has been living seriously on borrowed money for a long time. The people instead of trying to tighten the belts they prefer to live on credit and beyond thier means. The jos are leaving the country so big companies can further profit off of expoited labor in other countries. Alot of the properties, toll roads, sea ports, and ect are now owned by other countries. With all this they still live like they are rich and with this they go off to other lands fighting, using tax payer money, sending assistance with tax payer money but really there is no money. The US roads are in major disrepair, there social programs are a joke. I dont believe the US can continue to send what is or would be required to fight anyone. If the US were attacked now, other than the unltimate act of desperation using nukes, I dont believe they have the resources to defend themselves. What is worse I believe with the massive debts sooner or later the note is going to be called for soon and then what?? What was once a looked upon by many and powerful country has seemingly become very weak and unstable.
As it is, we have to borrow 3-4 billion from the Chinese everyday to maintain the current situation. So the answer would be undoubtably NO. However, it doesn't matter to the puppet masters who want to bankrupt the country, and doing it through wars is the perfect way for them to achieve this goal. They want to phase out the dollar altogether in order to make way for the new centralized currency that will be shared between the US, Canada and Mexico under the coming North American Union, and in order to do this they need to topple the current system. Everything that is happening has been planned this way. It's not by mere incompetence. These people know EXACTLY what they're doing, and the average person cannot see this because the average person thinks that the ones running the show want the same things they do. Most Americans don't even know who the people really running this country are. Most people truly think Bush is the one running the country and that he makes the rules, when the man cannot even speak a proper sentence without reading off a script. Meanwhile, the public has been made so deliberately dumbed-down through the complicit, Military-Industrial Complex controlled media, neurotoxic vaccinations, mind-blurring food additives and whatever else, that nobody really has a clue, let alone the ability to even care. The lifestyle that most people take for granted is at its last days. Those who are aware of this and know what's going on will be much better off once the levee breaks than those who prefer to remain blissfully ignorant to what's happening.
Unfortunately there is plenty of money for more war. The debt is wildly exaggerated - US federal debt is not that high compared to many countries in the world. And the US economy is actually doing reasonably well. The fearmongering of economic doom is not backed up by facts.
Of course it can "afford" more wars when the banks simply print up more money, devaluing the dollar even more, while borrowing billions from the Chinese on a daily basis.
Doesn't America's Warmongering also serve as advertising it's Arms? Doesn't it need to "show off" it's Arsenal every so often to attract buyers? And in the long term, if we're to believed these wars are aimed at acquiring minerals and oil and "favours" from other countries, then, justifiably or not, America is just spending now to reap the rewards at a later date...
What makes you think "America" will reap any rewards? What do these people care about America or its people? Of course there will be profit, for the Elite and high-level bureaucrats, that is. You think this money will actually go towards helping the American people?
Indirectly.. Yes I do. The American Government often uses the "Sweets in one hand, gun in the other" approach to recruiting allies, so these countries DON'T care about Americans.. In fact, they almost certainly despise the country America even more! And indeed, where it used to be Bureaucrats creaming off the profits, it seems to be the rest of the nation creaming off whatever is left after bureaucrats have taken what they want.. Yet still, the American War-Machine seems to dictate the prosperity of the Nation..
I always thought the U.S. was trying to flatten itself out of troops so it can then resort to the use nukes and other sorts of missles for some reason.
That won't happen. The US wouldn't destroy a country with nukes, when its main objective is to take control over that country and its resources. To destroy a country with nukes would be counterproductive to them. There is no real enemy the US is after, other than the ones in which they've created themselves, and they're merely used to justify war. As far as the US trying to deliberately rid itself of troops, you are partially right, but not because of what I talked about above. You see, if there are no troops at home and the US is attacked for whatever reason, by whomever, then there will be nobody to "protect" the country, and the US government must then resort to using mercenaries a'la Blackwater, along with foreign UN troops, which would be used to police the people of this country under a martial law situation. Using mercenaries and foreign troops in the event of martial law is what the government wants, as these people will take orders which include disarming the public, and even killing American citizens if need be.
America will eventually end up as the Soviet Union did. There will be an eventual down turn as far as power, but those that hold the money will end up owning it all anyways, unless we wake up.
A little bit of debt can be a good thing (trust me, there is logic behind that statement), but I'd agree that uncontrolled spending isn't. In response to this thread's question though, you have to ask if America can afford the wars it already has?
