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Originally Posted by California Tanker
It's not as if the money's evaporating, it's going somewhere.
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An excellent point, and a necessary corrective to the simplistic "It's all about the oil" theme one sometimes hears.
Quite apart from the oil, the martial obsessions, the imperial ambitions, and the need to deflect attention from a presidency that was bereft of talent, promise, or a clue, there was this: a mind-bogglingly huge transfer of public money to a relatively tiny number of Admin-friendly (or Admin-owned) private companies.
That money's not evaporating, indeed.