The United States has such a large GDP because 1/3 of it is the private healthcare industry. Another massive chunk is the government throwing tax dollars at a shell company of a shell company of a shell company that moves a government contract for construction around to each other 4 times, all subsequently increasing GDP.
also, the supposed humanitarian purpose of the pier could even have been easily achieved with negative dollars spent, by simply not sending said dollars to isn'treal
Yes.