10 January 2012

California and Florida: Sponsoring Terror

So if materially supporting terrorists, terrorism, and terror in general is enough to lose you your rights and get you "disappeared," who then would go to GITMO for investing nearly $90 billion dollars in part of the Axis of Eeevil?


The move, which mirrors actions by Florida and California, comes after state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli announced $86 billion of the nearly $150 billion state pension fund has been divested from companies involved in Iran and Sudan. 

Yes, I know what "divested" means.  It means that until they were in danger of having the country holding most of their money blown up, Florida and California were investing in terror.  At least by the definition given by the NDAA.

How much does a nuclear program cost?  More than $90 billion? Apparently the startup of each plant is about $30 billion, give or take.

If we consider that this $90 billion was used to prop up some Iranian government loans, those loans would have been worth about $900 billion*.  More than enough to get a really good head start on nuclear war.

Still think we can win, guys?  Still think it will be easy?




*Inkwell  money lending means that banks can loan at least 10 times what they actually have on hand.  Using derivatives and other complex and vaguely Gordon-Gecko-esque terms it can get to be as much as 100:1, but I doubt anyone is crazy enough to loan 9 trillion dollars to Iran.

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