The president’s team is privately urging lawmakers to focus on the jobs that can be created by money spent on the war.

I love how their messaging is that the proxy war is good actually because it’s creating jobs. The obvious question here is whether it would be better to create jobs that actually make things people in US need like say housing or infrastructure as opposed to ones directed towards facilitating atrocities half way across the globe.

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      His phrase was directed at the campaign’s workers and intended as one of three messages for them to focus on. The others were “Change vs. more of the same” and “Don’t forget health care.”

      Usians really have floppy disc for a memory…

      In March 1991, days after the ground war in Kuwait, 90% of polled Americans approved of President Bush’s job performance.[1] But during the following year, Americans’ opinions turned sharply; 64% of polled Americans disapproved of Bush’s job performance in August 1992.

      Hah