Debt ceiling...
Is coming back in the news. No one will point the finger at the Pentagon, but they should. They are the chief reason why we have deficits every year and they are responsible for pushing our country into bankruptcy along with the Federal Reserve. Here is a recap:
There was a period of hope just after WWII when Americans sought to get back to our roots: avoid foreign entanglements and to promote the general welfare.
The general welfare enjoyed full employment. The G. I. Bill resulted in a housing boom as pent-up demand from the war made social mobility flood into the middle-class. This masked the first hope. The Iron Curtain in Europe led to the Cold War. The US found an uneasy peace with the nuclear standoff, however the military kept its power within our government.
Another Chance
In 1991 we had a second chance as the USSR crumpled under the weight of military spending by their government. The failure of a planned economy added to the excessive debt. All we had to do was live up to promises made in meetings with Reagan and Gorbachev. We could have cut the military budget by two-thirds. We could have used that money for research, rebuild our infrastructure and repaid our national deficits. We didn't.
The problem surfaced behind the scenes. The pentagon had influence with military contracts throughout the nation. In the South it had military bases which provided those states with employment. In the West it used research facilities to buy the influence of those states. It controlled Congress. This made it even more powerful. None of our so-called leaders spoke out against this danger. Money buys influence.
In time the pentagon found new avenues of danger that they could manipulate into our national attention. Russia was reawakening in the Middle East in Afghanistan. The CIA helped the opposition and its leader, Osama Bin Laden. When that episode ended, the "Deep State" kept the Middle-East in the news. The story flipped. The so-called ally, Bin Laden was anti-West. He posed a danger. Through BS, they convinced a small minded president that terrorism would be a growing threat to the US. The tragedy of 9/11 made their case.
WMD
Remember weapons of mass destruction? The war-mongers at the pentagon threw fear into the news. A dirty bomb could be used by these terrorists.
In reality, they hi-jacked planes like Cuban sympathizers in the 1970s. As a nation, we received endless wars with excessive debt. We have a growing homeless and poverty rates as our best paying jobs are outsourced under the flag of staying competitive. This masks the lie of greed and profits before what is best for the nation. This military grab for power under our so-called "national interests" is sending us recklessly down the road to financial ruin just as the USSR suffered in 1991. We are the danger to the world as our military "empire" is in over 100 countries.
In today's news we hear of the BS of the Ukraine / Biden inquiry when the real news is we provide that nation with almost $500 million in military hardware with borrowed money. Dear Reader, this is on the Russian doorstep. No wonder they are paranoid. Look at this from a Russian perspective? Gorbachev was promised after the Berlin Wall came down that NATO would not expand. It has. The pentagon had us back Osama and then, we went after him. Recently, we were allies with the Kurds in the Middle-East. Now, we left them in the desert sun. At the same time our military budget has grown to over half of our budget at $750 billion and this is borrowed money. People, our national defense could protect us with a just $250 billion. The rest is waste spend in endless wars while generals seek a lifestyle of the rich and famous. Every year we spend money that we don't have that goes off in a blast of a poorly aimed fire power. We should be helping Americans with good paying jobs as we rebuild our bridges, roads and tunnels.
Our society has an uneasy peace. Least we forget that we are an experiment. We are not a homogeneous society like most nations. Our economy has lost almost all of our manufacturing. Our future has been mortgaged due to the pentagon's reckless adventures. Just add up their recent performance.
Our foreign intelligence is a joke - WMD?! The pentagon is a group of war mongers who sit around a table talking in a paranoid state. They see danger just looking out the window. They request things like new air craft carriers when that ship is obsolete due to smart bombs. They should be building just new age subs and cyber-security.
How about one of the many military agencies like NSA? These are the biggest idiots of all! The FBI gave them the tip of the terrorists in San Diego. They refused to share their data with the FBI on those same terrorists. In fact, the NSA people watched this same group traverse the country right up to the airline ticket counter and did NOTHING! TOLD NO ONE! They are responsible for 9/11.
How about the internet to which we invented. We get hacked everyday, including government agencies. The Deep State uses its power with the media to stop any withdrawals of troops in the Middle-East like the present moment in Syria. These people will never give peace a chance. I ask, where is the anti-war message from any candidate running for office? When will we return to our roots as President Washington advised upon leaving office, "Avoid foreign entanglements and promote the general welfare." If not now, when?
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