It is a strange fact that those who win wars wind up paying for all the destruction they cause. That is by international agreement and so, guess who got the bill for World War II? We did.
We were the only ones who could rebuild the world.
Obviously, the Germans were not in any position to pay anyone back for anything. They were too busy clearing their own streets of rubble.
The Brits were in similar condition, hanging on by threads.
So when it came time to rebuild Europe, Japan, and places as far-flung as Burma, who picked up the tab?
Mom and Pop back home in Des Moines.
This was accomplished by the Marshall Plan, yet another stroke of genius drummed up by our military, which should be permanently barred from having anything to do with accounting or finance.
Any organization that can lose trillions of dollars off their books, and turn around and find even more trillions of dollars of credit on their books that they can’t account for, needs to be relieved of accounting duty.
The recovering nations were allowed to place debilitating tariffs against American goods and services, and to profit their own governments on those tariffs. The resulting income was more than sufficient to pay for rebuilding all the war-time damage to Europe, a process that was complete by 1970.
These same nations were protected by the American Armed Forces at little (we are talking 1- 4% percent) or no cost to them, so virtually all the burden of their national defense was footed by the Americans, too.
All of that should have come to a conclusion around 1970-75, at most. The tariffs against American goods and services should have been quietly removed by all the various recipient governments and our own manufacturing and productive sectors of our economy should have been set free to thrive.
Read that — The Rust Belt should not exist. Detroit should be thriving. Millions upon millions of American manufacturing and service jobs should have been cranking out a good future for millions of American families for the past fifty years.
Should have been.
But we have been letting the rulers of the world manipulate our government processes and promote their corporate elections while suppressing our lawful government and unlawfully usurping upon us in Gross Breach of Trust.
They happily sold us and our best interests down the river and continued to glut themselves for an additional fifty years— and all in breach of International Treaties, in Breach of Trust, in violation of their commercial contracts.
Fifty years. Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George Bush, Wm. Jefferson Clinton, Barack Obama…. traitors all.
It’s only now that the facts about The Marshal Plan and its gross mis-administration are coming to the attention of the American People and they are beginning to understand just how terribly they and their country have been mistreated.
Donald Trump is the first American President in all these years to have sense and guts enough to call a halt to it.
Of course, those who have been sucking us dry are disappointed.
It’s important for all the other World Leaders who have been acting as leeches to understand that Donald Trump isn’t the only American who has had enough.
There are, in fact, millions of us. Not everyone knows the details yet, but all our backs are up, simply because of the level of suffering and injustice we’ve endured without relief for fifty additional years of enslavement and taxation and tariffs under “wartime” mobilization.
We are not willing to be killed off in yet another mercenary war, just so they can avoid paying their debts back to us, either.