Monday, August 29, 2011
THE FOUNDING FATHERS: MYTH ASIDE, THIS IS A VISION GONE WRONG! – Part II: WAR WAR WAR & DEBT
It is the duty of the Patriot to protect his country from his government. – Thomas Paine
George Washington’s Prayer at Valley ForgeWhy? Our war machine generates such “spectacular profits that many people around the world” are convinced America’s “rich and powerful must be deliberately causing catastrophes so that they can exploit them,” warns Naomi Klein in “Shock Doctrine.” No wonder the GOP takes military spending, like tax cuts for the rich, off-the-table: The war industry is a major political donor. – Paul Farrell
Unlike Vietnam, today you hear very little news about America’s wars. Again why? Mat Taibbi correctly points out, “These are for profit companies and there’s no money in doing the right thing.” So, as long as the MSM keeps it off the nightly news the people are content with America’s sociopathic spree of senseless destruction and killing of innocents. Yet they’re captivated by sensationalized coverage when a deranged Mother kills her baby. It’s a sad state when an isolated incident is “sold” as infotainment that trumps real news of wholesale murder and mayhem. According to Chris Hedges; “News As Entertainment has trumped actual journalism.” Wake up America! Throw in the food stamps and this is the modern version of Bread and Circuses. Our sophistication makes us either the most ignorant or hypocritical people on earth.
Must See: Chris Hedges: MSM Feeds Masses ‘Road Kill’
Must See: Chris Hedges: MSM Feeds Masses ‘Road Kill’
The media and the government, both are hijacked by big corporations and through their two identical twins they provide us with the illusion of democracy. As Chomsky well-put, the media is in the business of “manufacturing consent” – Edip Yuksel
A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps, both. – James Madison
Part II of IV: Follow up to THE FOUNDING FATHERS: MYTH ASIDE, …– Part One: WAKE UP AMERICA
Osama bin Laden’s stated intent was to embroil the US in Middle Eastern wars and to destroy our financial well being.
The USA-Inc has a magic word to hypnotize us: “Terrorists!” So that our tax dollars could be transferred to war profiteers, the military industrial complex and its allies! – Edip YukselThe U.S. is entrenched in three illegal and immoral wars in the name of security. In the latest; Libya we’re supposedly protecting the people, which of course is a lie. First, we’ve thrown in with a group of militants with terrorist ties. And the civilians we’re protecting; nearly 1,000 have been killed and according to UN High Commissioner for Refugees 686,422 had fled Libya as of May 4, mostly for Egypt and Tunisia.
The cost of President Obama’s unconstitutional attack on Libya has been $716 million as of June 3. According to the LA Times Obama’s unauthorized war on Libya costs $9,421,000 a day:
“The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.” – James Madison
6,114 American lives have been cut short and 44,596 have been wounded in action; many severely (http://www.defense.gov/news/casualty.pdf). 600,000 to one million in Iraq alone will not see tomorrow.
Here is a great take on our current military entanglements which is probably more accurate re: cost. via World Revolution News.
Defense accounts for 58% of discretionary spending.
Defense is 19% of the total budget and increasing, (this does not include interest).
Military expenditures have more than doubled since 9-11-2001.
Defense; we spend as much as the rest of the world combined and borrow the money to do so. Debt-funded wars – say, in Afghanistan and Iraq – are easier to defend than pay-as-you-go wars that voters must finance up front with taxes. See: War, Debt and Democracy
Would not the trillions wasted on this nonsense have gone a long way toward rebuilding our infrastructure and retraining Americans for the 21st century, rather than killing those still stuck in the 20th? Instead of strengthening our homeland for all Americans, we engage in foreign interventions which makes us less secure while siphoning off hundreds of $billions to Independent Contractors, Weapons Manufacturers and Banksters; the financiers of destruction and misery.
While millions of American people are jobless, millions are losing their homes, and millions of American children suffer from hunger and malnutrition, we are spending about to a trillion dollars for the business of destruction and creating more enemies so that the business of destruction will become even more needed and lucrative. While the so-called “elected officials” in our Federal and state governments are seriously debating of cutting vital social programs such as education and health care, they never talk about cutting the mushrooming military budget -Edip Yuksel
From a deep watery grave, it would seem Osama has us right where he wanted us!
Before any domestic austerity measures (cuts in public services and promised benefits) are imposed on the American people we must demand the draw down of troops and a timely end to these senseless and costly wars. We must also reaffirm the constitutional process in waging war and put in check, the presidents implied Imperial Powers.
See: WARFARE STATE: Defense Firms Want To See US Combat Missions Continue
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DEBT: Charge It Please
According to the National Inflation Association, when you factor in the unfunded liabilities of the U.S. government, total federal debt obligations now come to a grand total of 76 trillion dollars. Other sources put the figure over $ 100 Trillion.
The facsimile of U.S. “growth” now depends entirely on Central State manipulation and stimulus of risk trades and financial slight-of-hand… we’re spending/injecting $7 (of borrowed money) to create $1 of “growth” in GDP. – charles hugh smith
