cui bono3 (fwd)

source lost. i might search for it if required, but the gist remains even 
withou soruce.




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                    ANDRE  GUNDER  FRANK
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Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 01:05:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: Andre Gunder Frank <franka@fiu.edu>
To: franka@fiu.edu
Subject: cui bono3

Who will benefit from the $40 billion anti-terrorism and recovery
package-to be taken from the "sacrosanct" Social Security surplus-which
lawmakers approved, without blinking, three days following the attack?
This sum is, of course, in addition to the some $325 billion that the
bloated military apparatus already gobbles up each year. Not unlike the
Israeli government-which recently passed its 2002 budget, slashing all
social spending while dramatically increasing the money allocated to
infrastructure and military-the U.S. Congress is now expected to
circumscribe spending on health care, education and other social services,
so as to confer billions on the military or, more precisely, on
corporations like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon. In a week in which the Dow
Jones posted a 14.3 percent loss, its largest since the Depression,
Lockheed Martin and Raytheon gained 10 percent and 37 percent,
respectively.





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                    ANDRE  GUNDER  FRANK
Department of History                      Home
University of Nebraska Lincoln [UNL]       4440 North 7th Street 
612 Oldfather                              Apt. 107 
P.O. Box 880327                            Lincoln, NE 68521 USA
Lincoln, NE 68588-0327                     Tel: 1-402-742 7931
Tel: 1-402-472 3251=direct 2414=Dpt        Fax: 1-402-742 7932 
Fax: 1-402-472 8839
E-Mail: franka@fiu.edu          Web Page: csf.colorado.edu/agfrank/