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It’s Chad Benson’s last day sitting in for Greg, and he and Jim are pleasantly surprised that the House GOP held together on a debt ceiling bill, and there are some rumblings that Kevin McCarthy might be better at being speaker than anybody expected.
Today also brings a pretty lousy U.S. GDP number, raising questions of just how the U.S. economy is performing.
Finally, while it’s not unusual for former government officials to make a bundle in the private sector, it’s less than idea to see tetired Army Gen. Keith Alexander, who led the National Security Agency, making $700,000 on a contract advising the Saudi Arabian government.
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Generals get a pretty hefty pension. Also, public sector workers making less than private sector workers may have been true in the 1960s through 1980s, but its not really true today, especially when benefits are thrown in. Alexander has better choices than to work for Saudi Arabia, and forgoing that money doesn’t mean he won’t have enough for his kids’ college funds.
Saudi Arabia has been an American ally for generations.
The foreign policy incompetence of the Biden administration has disrupted that relationship, but I don’t think it’s time to start thinking of Saudi Arabia as an enemy.
There’s nothing wrong with that relationship that a Republican (or competent Democratic) Presidency won’t fix.