Myself, like so many of my fellow bloggers, are always looking for something special to write about on our sites……me? I try to keep Americans up to speed on the Middle east and Central Asia…..especially sine we are still fighting our longest war ever and all the cash we have pissed away on situations that needed NO cash…….it is embarrassing that we piss away lives but the misuse of cash is just mind numbing……
You know kinda like $60 hammers and $200 Toilet seats and other worthless use of the American tax dollar….and when I thought I had heard it all I read a news article that just made all the disgust for contractors and the like…….
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has revealed another bizarre and ultimately fruitless US expenditure in Afghanistan.
This time it was the State Department, which spent $3.6 million on equipment to gift to Afghan TV stations to upgrade the quality of live sports broadcasts on television there.
A very ambitious chore…..but think about a couple of problems with this logic from the State Department…….Afghanistan has NO national sports teams that I am aware of at this time and at best 20% of the country actually has a TV in their homes…..so where was the need?
Typical American thinking…..give the Afghans stuff they do not need and probably thought very little of this “problem”……basically we are telling them what they want and need.
My next question is….who convinced the State Department that Afghanistan need this service? If it is a worthless program why do we keep funding these wastes of money? And since most of them are failures…..why is NO one responsible for pissing away money we do not have?
I bet we could have found a program in this country that needed that cash to fund it……whatcha think?
So, what’s the current total of money
spentwasted on Iraq, Afghanistan, the multi-national droning, The War on Terra and all the Big Brother programs America has now?Whatever the amount is, I’m sure it’s more than enough to pay for Medicare For All, foodstamps and a public education system that doesn’t produce imbeciles.
Intervention BS will always keep funds from the programs that need the cash….sad but that is what American exceptionalism is all about….
Yeah, American exceptionalism:
America is all about democracy & freedoms…except when said democracy or freedoms get in the way of The Powers That Be.
America is all about peace and international cooperation…except when there’s something to be gained by doing so.
America is all about equality & prosperity…except when comes to The Poors, The Blacks, The Browns, The Vaginas or anything that would remotely inconvenience the 1%.
Oh yeah. America is exceptional all right