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By the same logic, an increase in health, education or social care spending would also maximise jobs, growth and skills. Except we’d also have more and better hospitals, schools and care homes, rather than just more bombs.
What the government can’t afford:
❌Lifting children out of poverty
❌Disability benefits
❌Compensation for WASPI women
❌Winter fuel allowance
What the government can afford: an extra £13.4 billion on the military.
Never any money for the poor. Always enough money for war.
The Guardian illustrate this typically braindead comment piece with a pic of Starmer at RAF Akrotiri on Cyprus, the international hub to support the Gaza genocide.
This is what "defence" budget is. It's a budget for imperial wars - and transfer of public funds to arms industry.
Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection. New York Times, April 9, 1944” ― Henry A. Wallace
They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest.
I am only about a quarter of the way in but Killing the Host by Michael Hudson is essential reading for anyone trying to understand modern politics and economics. Revelation after revelation, especially on the corrosive nature or rents and unearned income. 1