ten times more??? got anything to back that up?
There's only a select few companies that compete for defense contracts. Public works contracts, on the otherhand, have a much larger list of contractors bidding on them. Historically, the largest impact on the economy comes from construction, because it affects so many other industry's. That's why a good indicator of how the economy is doing, is "housing starts". When that is up, we are growing.
Or look at it this way, maintaining a US base in Germany, does not put money back into our economy at home. However, an infrastructure project that builds a bridge in Virginia, affects practically everyone in that area and after it's done, at the very least, you have a bridge!
When you spend our money to bomb Fallujah, we don't get shit out of the deal!
which anti trust laws are not being enforced?
How do you think the healthcare industry has been able to jack up their prices to obscene levels? A one night stay in the hospital costs almost $36,000. For one ******* night!
Why do you think the healthcare lobby wanted that "public option" out of the healthcare bill? Because competition, would drive their prices down and there was no way for them to control it.
How do you think the banks got too big to fail? By buying out the little banks.