This is just theft. Legitimately disgusting, the level of disrespect.
The money going into ‘humanitarian relief’ (however much doesn’t go into lining the pockets of US NGOs) will be spent making sure that the newly independent Afghanistan remains subservient to the US. With their own money, Afghanistan could buy tractors. With humanitarian aid, they will get grain.
They will have no agriculture, and therefore no economy, that could stand independent of the US.
“As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems they ask and rightly so, “So what about Vietnam?” They ask if our own nation wasn’t using massive doses of violence to solve its problems. And, I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today, my own government. ”
Trump-loving Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) came out firmly against a ban on lawmakers buying and selling stocks while in office.
In an interview with the UK Independent newspaper, Tuberville said that he worried fewer quality candidates would run for office if they didn’t have the ability to personally profit from it in addition to the generous taxpayer-funded salary they receive.
“"I think it’s ridiculous,” Tuberville said. “They might as well start sending robots up here… I think it would really cut back on the amount of people that would want to come up here and serve.”
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