McConnell: Military Aid ‘Is Not Charity
to Ukraine,’ U.S. Jobs Are Being Created
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Pam Key
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Posted By: mc squared,
4/28/2024 7:03:59 PM
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that military aid to Ukraine was not charity, adding that it created jobs in the United States.
Host Kristen Welker said, “I want to ask you about your legacy. You said just this week that you often feel like the only Reagan Republican left. As you prepare to step down from your leadership position this year, what are your greatest concerns about the future of the Republican Party?”
McConnell said, “I tell you, I feel better about it after we had our vote. I don’t know what I said then, it may have been before the vote.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Newtsche 4/28/2024 7:10:58 PM (No. 1707922)
What was it Ike said about the military-industrial complex?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 4/28/2024 7:28:06 PM (No. 1707936)
A million dollars' worth of jobs and a billion dollars' worth of hardware.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Mushroom 4/28/2024 7:30:17 PM (No. 1707939)
And a couple of those very large facilities are in Kentucky. What a coincidence
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 4/28/2024 7:31:00 PM (No. 1707940)
The billions to Ukraine is wealth we do not have. What is being created is inflation and misery.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 4/28/2024 7:41:42 PM (No. 1707943)
Turtle head is filthy and evil. He deserves a traitor's fate.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Mcscow sailor 4/28/2024 7:42:44 PM (No. 1707945)
We buy current munitions jobs using money borrowed from our descendants. Whatta deal.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jalo1951 4/28/2024 7:45:33 PM (No. 1707949)
So I guess we should all be praying for WW3? Happy Days are here again. This is a sick reason for war. Then I guess FJB should be for Israel wiping out the whole Middle East and not just hamas. More money, more war jobs, more kickback checks, more inflation, more debt, more everything that is not good. FJB
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
watashiyo 4/28/2024 7:47:00 PM (No. 1707950)
He's saying, that as more soldiers die using our money in the Ukraine war, more Americans will land a job. Is he insane? ....maybe that's true in the socially and morally bankrupt politics of Amerika.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Albatross 4/28/2024 7:57:48 PM (No. 1707955)
Inflation is the result of too much money chasing too few goods. In this case, the wages are paid in the United States but the goods disappear to another country and are useless to the American consumer.
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Yeah, Mitch, it's not charity...... It's funding for Madam Zelensky's shopping in Paris.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
PostAway 4/28/2024 8:08:39 PM (No. 1707958)
Only a depraved mind could conceive of such an evil rationalization. Only a deceitful mind could concoct the premise on which that statement is built: that government creates wealth of any sort.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Californian 4/28/2024 8:10:41 PM (No. 1707960)
Billions of US tax payer dollars taken from us.
Sent to Ukraine to fight stupid war of no strategic importance.
10% comes back to politicians as kick backs.
The rest goes to the MIC who send more kicks back to our politicians to build weapons which are not productive output.
Weapons then get used in pointless war serving no purpose.
Tax us some more and repeat the cycle.
Oh yeah, some jobs were created in Kentucky, too.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 4/28/2024 8:16:41 PM (No. 1707965)
In that case, give me the money. Think of how many jobs would be created if the government gave *me* a billion dollars! And I promise not to just blow it up like Zelensky. I'll spend in America on cars, houses, and boats, etc.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
tootall 4/28/2024 8:30:06 PM (No. 1707971)
Got to replace all the stuff we gave the Taliban when we ran away from Afghanistan!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Safari Man 4/28/2024 8:33:41 PM (No. 1707972)
Thanks for the command economy, b’mitch. I forget who we’re fighting today… is it Eurasia or Eastasia? I’m sure it’s double plusgood either way.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
valinva 4/28/2024 8:50:31 PM (No. 1707977)
Jobs are being created and I'm getting big campaign contributions and making a ton of money on stock trades.- Mitch M.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Bogasso 4/28/2024 8:50:54 PM (No. 1707978)
Breaking windshields and slashing tires creates jobs for Safelite and Goodyear too.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Venturer 4/28/2024 9:03:22 PM (No. 1707987)
Isn't that just wonderful we are using the creation of jobs to justify the thousands who are dying in Russia and the Ukraine.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DVC 4/28/2024 9:45:05 PM (No. 1707999)
Actually, this is correct. Fifty percent of the money goes for R&D in US companies for developing improved weapons for us, and for new, upgraded weapons for the US military, some replacing older weapons sent to Ukraine.
At least 20% is just for US weapons research, nothing to do with Ukraine.
Some is for expanding US weapons production just for our needs, and for new, emerging threats.
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Auschwitz gave Germans jobs, too. What's your point?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DVC 4/28/2024 11:50:34 PM (No. 1708035)
Normally the comments on this site are well thought out and intelligent.
On this topic, is pretty surprising how illogical, hateful and foolish too many of the comments are.
Hate doesn't make you smarter.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
john56 4/29/2024 12:06:20 AM (No. 1708039)
Well, the Turtle in partly right. With all the weapons that we've given to the Ukrainians and the Taliban from Uncle Joe, all we have left are a couple of boxes of musket shells from the Civil War and a bayonette from the Battle of Yorktown.
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Mitch, I'm looking for a new job. Relocation would be nice, also. Who are these companies that are hiring?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 4/29/2024 3:18:54 AM (No. 1708054)
Doing what? Printing $100 bills? Like Billions of them!
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 4/29/2024 6:16:32 AM (No. 1708083)
#19, I can understand your take on it but here is my concern. Why does "military aid" have to be tied to a foreign country in order to update our equipment? My other question is along the lines of how many countries does the United States have to take care of financially? Just got done reading an article about a NYPD firefighter being fired because they wanted the funds to take care of the illegals coming into New York. The man died of a heart attack and the family is without adequate financing. Just look at the devastation in Nebraska and Iowa with the tornadoes - maybe Mitch McConnell should be talking about his own country. . .
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 4/29/2024 6:19:09 AM (No. 1708084)
A correction to my post - maybe Mitch McConnell should be talking about his own country solely. . .
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
rikkitikki 4/29/2024 7:10:40 AM (No. 1708095)
McConnell's moral compass is so FUBAR'd he couldn't find it with both hands.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/29/2024 7:58:23 AM (No. 1708132)
McConnell's sell-by date is expired, just like Biden's. He needs to take his ill-gotten Chinese money and go back to Kentucky.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
smokincol 4/29/2024 9:18:56 AM (No. 1708185)
jobs that are created during a military conflict are only useful, for the most part, during that conflict period so ... mitch has it wrong, again
it gives the appearance of a prosperous economy but is, in fact, a shadow economy with no plans for the future and disappears when the conflict ends so, must be, that mitch seeks for this Israel / Hamas mess will have no end date nor a date in which the world returns to "normal"
further proving that we need our President back in the Oval Office so there can be some kind of building an equilibrium in the world thought and end all of this regional bickering and blustering
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
hershey 4/29/2024 9:19:34 AM (No. 1708187)
Post Turtle...didn't he say just a couple days ago the give away wasn't a 'lot of money'???? Course not when it's not yours you are sending down the toilet...
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
anniebc 4/29/2024 11:06:47 AM (No. 1708276)
Two senile old fools in power. The rest of the clowns are just fools. God is so angry with US.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
BarryNo 4/29/2024 11:08:16 AM (No. 1708279)
This just demonstrates how solidly McConnell is in bed with the conglomeration of interests that involved us in Vietnam, Korea, the Gulf War and the war in Afghanistan, and now Ukraine, selling their weapon of destruction and spending American lives for their lust for power and wealth. The Military Industrial Complex. Eisenhower warned us of this filth. Kennedy was assassinated by their instruments in the CIA. How many other Americans have been quietly murdered opposing their greed? I think my father may have been one.
Some years ago, My father, a corporate lawyer warned his company that they could not and should not attempt to corner the market on Uranium. That their plan of using shell companies to hide their control would be meaningless and easily detectable, as well as being illegal. Uranium is a strategic material and at the time there were limits on who could mine, refine or stockpile it, that his superiors wished to bypass, and then force the US to pay more for the nuclear fuel.
He took documents in a double sealed briefcase out to the West Coast to cancel the action.
Then he died due to an early blood pressure remedy that had been recalled by the FDA, 6 months before but was prescribed to him by the company doctor (This info was also sealed for 20 years) When his superiors were brought to trial, five years later, my father, dead and buried, was accused of advising them to go through with the deal, and that they were simply following his legal advice...
Except my father had taken to recording his meetings on an early cassette recorder - very new technology then - so when he transcribed the minutes of the meeting later , he could refer to the recording for accuracy. They had replaced his signed minutes in their files. But the recording was presented to the court by my brother as evidence - there being no laws on this point at the time. My father's superiors were convicted, but my father was still dead. This is how the Military Industrial Complex operates.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
danu 4/29/2024 12:06:15 PM (No. 1708316)
ditch mitch---he consorts w/ liars and thieves [and derp staters]
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And there you have it - this is what Eisenhower told us about.
The industrial military complex wants the profits from war, and they completely control our congress.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 4/29/2024 12:37:20 PM (No. 1708338)
I always remember the observation that the United States only got out of the Great Depression by getting involved in WW 2. Btw, is our debt increasing or decreasing? We all know the answer to that.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
DVC 4/29/2024 12:42:20 PM (No. 1708343)
Telling foolishly obvious fairy tales, #22, is a clear sign of having no cogent, sensible discussion points on this topic.
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He's as batty and evil as Biden. Should we be happy that people are dying but a few jobs are being created? Pure scum.