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Grins

(7,226 posts)
Thu Apr 18, 2024, 02:47 PM Apr 18

I HATE torture apologist, Mark Thiessen. But today...

Today in the Washington Post he delivered a long column pointing out that the money Congress doles out for Ukraine or Israel, more than 80% of it stays in the United States. For defense contractors. Our military takes our existing and aging inventory, sends it to Ukraine and Israel, and then uses the money to replenish our inventories with newer and better equipment!

A Win-Win!

And then Thiessen does one more thing. He tracks where those factories producing that newer and updated equipment are located, calculates the jobs and state and local revenue generated there, back to their Congressional Reps. - the ones who voted "No!" on providing those funds.

Example:

"Workers in Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R) Lima, Ohio, congressional district are churning out Abrams tanks and Stryker combat vehicles for Ukraine thanks to the military aid he has opposed."

The majority of those districts living fat off the federal teat? Republican.

Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/18/ukraine-map-districts-weapons/
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Wounded Bear

(58,685 posts)
1. That's been true all along. We're not sending a ton of cash over there...
Thu Apr 18, 2024, 02:48 PM
Apr 18

maybe in some of the humanitarian funds, but the military stuff goes like you posted.

PatSeg

(47,560 posts)
5. Yep, they're playing a game
Thu Apr 18, 2024, 03:50 PM
Apr 18

and all that matters is winning regardless of how many innocent people suffer and die.

Traurigkeit

(230 posts)
8. You know people, I know people, all those on this site know people ... but
Thu Apr 18, 2024, 05:30 PM
Apr 18

these things that are known as Republican House Representatives or Republican Senators and all the state and local Republican politicians can not be called people.
They are not people in the way we all know people.

PatSeg

(47,560 posts)
13. Sometimes it feels like they are a different species
Thu Apr 18, 2024, 06:46 PM
Apr 18

I'm thinking maybe Body Snatchers or alien brain worms.

4lbs

(6,858 posts)
4. Keep hammering the message, "your congressperson voted NO on your jobs."
Thu Apr 18, 2024, 03:42 PM
Apr 18

Can't do it just once or twice. Many of them won't listen or their skulls are too thick to get it.

Keep doing it every day. It will eventually sink in.

Grins

(7,226 posts)
10. Voting you for having best answer
Thu Apr 18, 2024, 05:44 PM
Apr 18

Dems should be in those districts pointing that out 24x7.
Unfortunately, I don’t see that happening.

SergeStorms

(19,204 posts)
7. I said that some time ago.
Thu Apr 18, 2024, 05:28 PM
Apr 18

That most of that money will be spent on weapons, ammunition etc. that republicans have conveniently located in red states!

The workers in these factories will be making money hand over fist. Republicans are soooo dumb!

Traurigkeit

(230 posts)
9. The workers in these factories will be making a little more money and
Thu Apr 18, 2024, 05:34 PM
Apr 18

their owners will be raking in the profits.
Owners may or may not add a shift but you know those Republican supporters, they'll bleed the life out of the small (low paid , low overhead) staffs they have now.

SergeStorms

(19,204 posts)
14. True, true.
Thu Apr 18, 2024, 10:10 PM
Apr 18

The workers might get a little overtime, but the owners would be raking in windall profits.

SWBTATTReg

(22,156 posts)
11. Hey, being in STLMO, Home of McDonald Douglas (fighter jets) and Emerson Electric (other military equip)
Thu Apr 18, 2024, 05:50 PM
Apr 18

and Boeing, etc., these industries have provided tons of well paying jobs for tons of my friends over the decades. We believe in the defense of this Country, and thus, many support these industries etc. for the jobs and money they pour back into their communities.

Obviously, the likes of Gym Jordan and M. Green have never read up on the industries these procurement bills provide for their voters. They need to be kicked out of Congress and replaced w/ those that will support these bills. I guess they felt that all they need to do is mouth off. Constantly mouth off and do nothing.

Warpy

(111,319 posts)
12. TFG doesn't care whose throats get cut
Thu Apr 18, 2024, 05:54 PM
Apr 18

as long as he gets revenge, and Ukraine pissed him off when it didn't supply him with manufactured dirt on the Biden family.

While I wish we could get rid of Johnson, I doubt she and Gaetz will manage it.

TexasBushwhacker

(20,209 posts)
15. I'm surprised how many people don't understand this
Thu Apr 18, 2024, 10:25 PM
Apr 18

They'll complain that we shouldn't give aid to other countries when we have issues here in the US. Hello!!! Almost all of that "aid" is spent on American goods!

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