(Wars Leave Crumbling Infrastructure at Home for US)Divine plagues and foreign wars are now destroying the American standards of life and money.

GREETINGS,

    ”  Divine plagues and foreign wars are now destroying the American standards of life and money.“–PG.135(tfoa)

  —  ” The judgment of America. “Babylon could have been healed but she was not healed.”

  America is just beginning to experience sorrow, mourning, grief and distrust from the anger of God and man.

   According to both the Holy Qur’an and the Bible, there will be plenty more of the same. In these two books, one can easily find everything foretold that is happening today. The time will grow so troublesome that (according to the Holy Qur’an) children will become gray headed, and (according to the Bible) great heart failure will become a disease upon the people, who have the anger of God (the American people).”–PG.151(tfoa)

   Wars Leave Crumbling Infrastructure at Home for US

SOURCE: www.informationclearinghouse.info

By Clifford A. Kiracofe

April 10, 2012 “Information Clearing House” —-While politicians in Washington recklessly call for bombing Syria and Iran, they ignore the economic costs of failed US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Such costs call into question the condition of the US economy and are not without significant social and political implications. They also call into question the competence of leadership elites in the US, not to mention fundamental issues of governance involving the preservation of constitutional democracy.

In the past, the US paid for its wars through increased taxes and the sale of war bonds. The recent wars, however, have been paid for mostly through borrowing. Thus, there is an adverse economic impact with respect to the increased national debt, to the increased budget deficits, and to the upward pressure on interest rates.

Ongoing analysis of economic, human, and social costs by the Eisenhower Study Group, a team of US academics, estimates these wars have cost between $3 trillion and $4 trillion through 2011.

In addition, there are additional significant macroeconomic consequences of war spending relating to infrastructure and jobs.

With respect to infrastructure, investment in defense displaces public investment in basic infrastructure. Private sector productivity is negatively impacted as a result.

Core public economic infrastructure includes transportation, roads, utilities, water systems, and sewerage. Other key non-military infrastructure would include that for education such as schools.

In terms of jobs, the report of the study team indicates that public spending for non-military purposes creates more jobs than bloated unnecessary wartime spending. Examples of non-military sectors are construction, education, and health care.

The US national infrastructure is disintegrating. Much of it was created after World War II and some even before. On a national basis, bridges, roads, waterways, canals and locks, and other public infrastructure are in bad condition and getting worse according to experts in civil engineering. Yet Washington’s bellicose politicians have squandered trillions on unnecessary wars and now want still further military action against Syria and Iran.

Such irresponsible politicians think in terms of their next election rather than the future of their country. They serve themselves and not the people.

So how did the US get into its current predicament?

One explanation points to the failure of US leadership elites to adapt to the changing global correlation of forces after the end of the Cold War in 1991. ….MORE HERE

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