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The tragedy of the Trump/Ryan Tax Scam of 2017 is not just in what it does says about our present and does to our future. It's also in how it soils our past.
Labels: memes, tax policies
posted by DownWithTyranny @ 12:01 AM
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Apparently they did.
Not apparently. They absolutely did. Which general was it that said the us military has been used around the world to make it safe for American corporations (to rape and pillage)? And when did he say this?
Hint: it wasn't in the 21st century. so this has been going on for quite a while now.
Technically, this was the reason the nation was founded. Most of the rebel leaders were smugglers tired of being forced to give up lucrative businesses by the Crown. Those who fought and lived never got as rich as those who "managed" the war-making supplies.
“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”
― Smedley D. Butler, War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier
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