More Smoke, More Mirrors
In the general scheme of things, the $700-billion bailout doesn’t seem like a big deal. Consider that while the bailout is, theoretically, a one-time event, the House is handing over nearly that amount to the Pentagon for a single year’s budget.
Their $488 billion doesn’t include another $40 billion for Homeland Security. Those are the folks who feel up old ladies in airports and can’t slow the 5,000/night flood of illegal immigrants across our southern border. Nor does it include another $73 billion for veterans programs and military base constructions. Nor does in include the costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which will probably be another $150 billion.
Oops. You add it all up and we’re handing over more to war machine than the total of the bailout.
Let’s be clear. Some form of the bailout will take place, but who’s going to stop the military? Not our current government. Both the executive and the legislature are in the pockets of special interests, primarily the arms merchants whom Eisenhower famously warned about as the military-industrial complex.
The idea that we are spending so much on the killing is tragic; it’s more than the rest of the world combined. Also, we focus more than 60% of our research on things military.
The collapse of our infrastructure, the decline in our schools, the ever-rising cost of health care, and our deepening economic crisis are all results of the depraved military Keynesianism that has been our nation’s prime economic driver for more than half a century.
This final note. Congress has put in funding for twenty F-22 fighter planes the Pentagon did not request. They’re funding an aircraft that doesn’t even work.
Whether the bailout or the military budget, it’s all just vote buying, and it’s destroying our country.
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