remember the fiscal cliff...............................From TomDispatch
By Nick Turse
''A billion dollars from the federal government: that kind of money
could go a long way toward revitalizing a country’s aging
infrastructure. It could provide housing or better water and sewer
systems. It could enhance a transportation network or develop an urban
waterfront. It could provide local jobs. It could do any or all of
these things. And, in fact, it did. It just happened to be in the
Middle East, not the United States.
The Pentagon awarded $667.2 million in contracts in 2012, and more
than $1 billion during Barack Obama’s first term in office for
construction projects in largely autocratic Middle Eastern nations,
according to figures provided to TomDispatch by the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers Middle East District (USACE-MED). More than $178 million in
similar funding is already anticipated for 2013.''
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