With our health care system in shambles, our schools an international joke, and our economy falling apart at the seams, it is good to know that the good ol'USA can be ahead in something, right? It seems that the US leads the world in foreign weapon sales for 2008, accounting for a whooping 2/3 of all sales!
The numbers are huge, with US weapon sales increasing 50%, jumping from $25.4 billion to $37.8 billion! And, this with the entire world in an economic downturn! I guess no budget is too tight to include a few billion for heavy weaponry?
What really makes this amazing is that we have created quite a racket for ourselves. We insert ourselves into the business of countries all over the war, invade countries and start wars while at the same time selling the very weapons needed to fight those wars. It is every businessman's dream come true, only problems is that it leads to millions of death and suffering, our only real exports any more.
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