Sickening to say the least. World wide welfare. Makes me feel like opening my wallet and burning the contents just to spite an increasingly worthless dollar.
UK gets 39b almost right off the bat. That must be post WW2 aid. I don't know what the rest of it would be, but a lot of this is really scratch your back scratch mine stuff. A lot of aid is just taking money from public coffers and putting it into private ones. It doesn't have to go to a poor country. It doesn't have to be food.
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Your so sweet cupcake. Thinking those countries received a fraction of those stolen us taxes. I would explain but I don't want to shoot myself in the back of the head with a shotgun twice.
Because the US was the only country left that had a functioning economy and infrastructure after the war. We had to bail everyone in Europe out. There were actually plans to remobilize the German army and invade the Soviet Union but they decided not to go through with it.
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Here's some notable 1971 events I found:
The US Dollar was decoupled from gold.
The worlds first electronic trading system, NASDAC, was launched.
A bomb was detonated in the US Capitol building.
26th ammendment passed lowering voting age from 21 to 18.
Chat rooms debuted on ARPANET.
The US blockade against China ends.
What did I miss?
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