The main beneficiaries from recent American foreign policy and military spending has been the multi-national/international oil, mining, armaments, and engineering/reconstruction companies - not the US community or economy at large..
Take a look:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/03/BUTL10FVD9.DTL
$5.17 Billion for three months work. Now that’s what I call a stimulus check.
