US Jobs 'Unexpectedly' Shed As War Machine Profit Soars
The Independent reports US private employers unexpectedly shed 32,000 jobs in November, with small businesses taking the brunt. They blame tariffs, carefully sidestepping the inconvenient truth that record defense budgets—$886 billion in 2024, with another $14 billion just approved for Israel—don't exactly stimulate Main Street. While Americans worry about grocery bills and layoffs, the industrial
war complex is seeing its best quarterlies. It's almost as if the architects of our foreign policy believe infinite funding for conflict overseas has no domestic economic consequence. How many 'unexpected' job losses will it take before we start 'unexpectedly' questioning where trillions are being spent, and on whose behalf? Perhaps fewer private sector jobs are a necessary sacrifice for, well,
you know, 'democracy'—provided that democracy is 6,000 miles away and bombing a besieged population.