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This writer has made
it my main purpose, for 15 years now, to focus on the single most important
issue destroying our nation's economy. Yes, for those who read me frequently,
it is this obscene military spending coupled with extreme militarism! Unbeknown
to most Americans, over half of our federal taxes goes directly or
indirectly for military spending. To keep one soldier in Afghanistan,
for example, for one year, costs us over one million dollars! The
soldier gets less than $ 75k a year, depending on rank. When the government
farms out, which it does quite excessively to private mercenaries, oh I
mean' military contractors', their guys get around $ 200k a year each. Of
course their employers, the private companies hired by Uncle Sam, like Eric
Prince's ( formerly called Blackwater ), get tens of millions of
our tax dollars. Then we have the over 1000 military bases in over 100
countries with powerful WMDs at their disposal, that cost we taxpayers
hundreds of billions of dollars to operate. And they actually have the audacity
to ask the question of those natives of these countries: "Why do you hate
us?" Listening to the
local Orlando NPR station this morning in my car (of which I renamed National
Propaganda Radio, serving the empire so well) they had a segment about some
poor working stiff. It seems that public transit in the area where he lives
does not go to the nearby town where he works. The gist of the story was that
the guy is a low level worker, earning about $ 10 an hour. He has to take an
UBER to and from work each day which costs him $30 a day. After taxes he is
lucky to earn enough to barely survive. The reporter interviewed the official
from the LINK public transportation authority about the lack of viable public
transport. He gave the usual and most honest answer that there was NOT enough
funding for this. Of course, the reporter and the official never dared
mention why there is not enough funding for things like that. Remember the emergency
management official during the Flint, Michigan safe drinking water crisis, and
what he answered during the Congressional hearing? They asked him why nothing
was done to get the citizens of Flint better drinking water and lead free water
pipes, and he said "We didn't have the funds." Not ONE of the two party
congress people conducting the hearing EVER mentioned how we could have plenty
of funding to address this problem: Cutting the obscene military spending
and getting the hell out of the Middle East! Not one! We have a scam
perpetrated countless years ago by the super-rich who run things. They
made sure that there would always be this Two Party/One Party system in
place, making sure, by any means necessary, of keeping third party movements
OUT of the process. So, they, the super-rich, separated into groups (and
sometimes not even doing that) of their super rich compatriots, with one
funding the Republicans and the other, the more ' kinder and gentler', funding
the Democrats. Since they have always owned and controlled the
mainstream media, they made sure that we working stiffs were mesmerized into
believing those fairy tales. It actually became a ' sense of pride ' for many
working stiffs to boldly announce what affiliation they individually had, Republican
or Democrat. Look at all the recent rancor that good and decent hard working
Americans take part in over this con job. Sad. Meanwhile, the real empire of
the super-rich continues with such draconian means of control... worldwide and
domestically! The ' Trump
Phenomena' is another aspect of what many in the confidence game refer to as '
The Long Con'. The use of phony populism and misdirected national pride
convinced so many working stiffs to get on board. In reality, and this is key,
the only real reason why this man ever won was due to the disgraceful choice of
the other party to run Mrs. Clinton. I joke with many friends by saying that
if the Democrats ran Donald Duck they would have defeated Donald Trump! Even
still, the underling sad fact is that, once again, regardless of which of the
two parties runs things, the obscene military spending and imperialist mindset
still rules! When the ' cookie crumbles ' and we march into a new economic
depression, even worse than the 2009 upheaval, we may face a terrible fascist
revival here at home, echoing to a lesser extent what transpired in 1932
Germany. The only hope for we working stiffs is to realize that the same super
rich who have always controlled us will welcome such a thing. Americans need to
stop supporting political movements that are against their own
interests.