$320,000,000 DAILY FUEL BILL for the Marines alone in Afghanistan

I came across a most interesting column by Paul Craig Roberts, an economist who used to be one of the masterminds of Reaganomics serving as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Ronald Reagan. He held a number of high and prestigious academic positions, is an author of numerous books, and as a persona non grata in the American mass media, he can be called an American dissident. He was awarded Legion d'honneur, the highest French Order, by French President Francois Mitterrand. You can read the text of his column from which I borrowed the title of the today's post here. In it, he discusses how needs of the US citizens are thrown under the bus by our government which minds almost exclusively interests of the financial elite, and of the military-industrial complex. (For example, we the people are being charged $400 per GALLON of fuel used by our troops in Afghanistan, and we spend those gallons like there is no tomorrow while arguing with straight faces that we do not have enough money for the national health care.)

On the other hand, here is a permanent link to the list of all of his columns.

I consider myself lucky to have discovered such a distinguished, well-informed and intelligent source of information and interpretation of the current situation.

P.S. My Russian-speaking readers can read an excellent in-depth interview with Paul Craig Roberts to a Washington, DC - based correspondent of a Russian news site slon.ru here.