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Feb 1

CULTure, black budget tech, conspiracy, economic manipulation, informative text

“The facts about America’s bloated, excessive, always-increasing military spending are now well-known. The U.S. spends almost as much on military spending as the entire rest of the world combined, and spends roughly six times more than the second-largest spender, China. Even as the U.S. sunk under increasingly crippling levels of debt over the last decade, defense spending rose steadily, sometimes precipitously. That explosion occurred even as overall military spending in the rest of the world decreased, thus expanding the already-vast gap between our expenditures and the world’s.”
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“The clear fact is that, no matter how severe are our budgetary constraints, military spending and all so-called “security-related programs” are off-limits for any freezes, let alone decreases. Moreover, the modest spending freeze to be announced by Obama tomorrow is just the start; the Washington consensus has solidified and is clearly gearing up for major cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, with the dirty work to be done by an independent “deficit commission.” It’s time for “everyone” to sacrifice and suffer some more — as long as “everyone” excludes our vast military industry, the permanent power factions inside the Pentagon and intelligence community, our Surveillance and National Security State, and the imperial policies of perpetual war which feed them while further draining the lifeblood out of the country.”
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“A large part of the problem with the budget freeze — even if it is mostly symbolic — is that it has a real, and negative, impact on employment. In the aggregate, a three-year freeze on non-defense discretionary spending will cost the economy several hundred thousand jobs at a time when we need every bit of employment growth. What’s more, a budget freeze will have the likely effect of keeping the federal government from following policies that could alleviate unemployment.”

Yep – American warlords are draining your way of life to fuel their megalomania.