Half-assed priorities of the federal government....

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January 30, 2012

Half-assed priorities of the federal government. Meanwhile the country’s infrastructure has gone to the dogs. The irony of it all is that we are no more secure as a result of all this military spending. Basically what it has accomplished is to have earned us the enmity of most of the world while dumbing down and impoverishing the populace at home. We have the Ministry of Peace and the Ministry of Plenty to thank for this. To be sure we’re not quite at the “WAR IS PEACE” stage yet, only the “PREEMPTIVE WAR IS PEACE” stage. Call me paranoid but one can’t help but wonder if the government actually wants the unemployment rate to remain high so more struggling young jobless citizens will join the armed forces. A government doesn’t need to use a military draft if it can inveigle voluntary enlistment through careful control and steadfast manipulation of poverty.

“When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.” ~Jean-Paul Sartre

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