An example of the U.S. creating negative value is its military industrial complex, and endless war-making. A 2000-pound unguided gravity bomb costs U.S. taxpayers $3000. It is a one-time use item and its only purpose is destruction and death. A $3000 bomb can bring down a $100 million high rise apartment building, a hospital, or a school, or a factory. Cui bono.
Since 2001 the U.S. has dropped approximately 326,000 bombs of all sorts, mostly on Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria. In 2016 President Obama dropped a record 26,171 bombs; so many that he temporarily ran out of bombs. The bombs are just a small fraction of the trillions of dollars of the cost of war. The human waste is incalculable.
Trump and now Biden drop an average of 42 bombs every day. That is negative value for "we the people" and even worse for the victims the bombs rain down on. The victims are mostly civilians, but they are simply chalked up as collateral damage, as if they are abandoned junk. Only fools would believe the propaganda that U.S. bombs are for humanitarian interventions to deliver freedom and democracy from cruel dictators and to stop terrorism.
The American System creates value. It builds mass transportation, high-speed rail, airports, and provides healthcare, education, social safety nets, and it lifts people out of poverty. There is only one way that the U.S. can begin to "finish the symphony" of the American Revolution, which Matthew Ehret writes about. That is for the U.S. to end all of its illegal wars of aggression, abandon its quest for world domination, give up its empire, and honor the U.S. Constitution and the United Nations charter.
To finish its revolution the U.S. must reject the British System, and accept a multi-polar world of win-win. It must welcome peace, cooperation and compromise. The only thing stopping the U.S. from embracing the American Political and Economic System is a small group of elites, war profiteers, and careerists who care only about their self-interests. Their selfish interests are not guided by a magical invisible hand for the good of all.
Matthew Ehret can be found at The Canadian Patriot, and at The Rising Tide Foundation where he is the cofounder with Cynthia Chung.
(Article changed on Aug 02, 2021 at 9:58 PM EDT)
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