While US lawmakers can't find enough money to spend on infrastructure, healthcare or education, they have no problem to pour outrageous amounts of money in unproductive sectors like armament industry...
By Philip A
Farruggio
Global
Research, July 05, 2019
This writer
has been focusing tirelessly on the (obscene) fact that over half of our
federal taxes goes down the rabbit hole of military spending. Well, writer and
researcher Andre Damon of the World Socialist Website just wrote a piece on
July 1st on this very subject. He stated that under phony populist demagogue
Trump the Senate (with the help of 36 Democrats) passed the largest ever
Pentagon budget. Taking over from Democrat Obama, where under his watch the
said budgets even surpassed the ones under the war mongering Bush/Cheney cabal,
‘The hits just keep on comin!’ From the $619 billion in 2016 to $700 billion in
2017 to the $716 billion in 2018 to…drum roll please… $750 billion passed last
Thursday. This now makes military spending AKA Defense spending (has a better
‘secure our borders’ flavor to it, yes?) accounting for… drum roll again…
around 60% of the federal budget!
Imagine if
you will that if just 25% of that money immediately went for things like A)
Jump starting full Medicare for All with no need for buying supplemental private
add on insurance (Read Which Path to National Improved Medicare for All?) B)
Fixing our roads, bridges, power distribution below ground like in Europe, and
money to sure up coastal areas to stand up to hurricanes better; C) Having an
Amtrak to rival the railroad travel and accessibility that the Europeans have
had for generations; D) Begin to institute public banking whereupon, with low
or non profit, the consumer will save immeasurably. (Read The Public Banking
Revolution Is Upon Us by Ellen Brown)
To put
things into perspective, according to Andre Damon, Russia’s annual military
budget is $61 billion, and they sure as hell kept our USA wolf from overtaking
Syria and Venezuela! He goes on to report that the Democratic controlled House
of Representatives is only proposing a $733 billion Pentagon budget. That’s
some Green Deal hah? One surmises that most of those new Dems, you know the
myriad of ex military and CIA folks, must have joined with their bipartisan
colleagues to keep the money rolling into the War Economy and OUT of the Green
Economy.
When will
Sanders and AOC and the handful of true progressives walk away from that
corruption? What in the hell good is it to belong to a party that may win
elections, and then do as little as possible to help we working stiffs… AND
make the world a little less crazy. Duh, it’s called ‘Lead by example’! As far
as the other and much more ruthless party, they are far beyond help. Yet, half
of the voting suckers choose them for a myriad of reasons… yet never to save
their working stiff asses! So sad this country that I love.
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Philip A
Farruggio is a contributing editor for The Greanville Post. He is also
frequently posted on Global Research, Nation of Change, World News Trust and
Off Guardian sites. He is the son and grandson of Brooklyn NYC longshoremen and
a graduate of Brooklyn College, class of 1974. Since the 2000 election debacle
Philip has written over 300 columns on the Military Industrial Empire and other
facets of life in an upside down America. He is also host of the ‘It’s the
Empire… Stupid‘ radio show, co produced by Chuck Gregory. Philip can be reached
at paf1222@bellsouth.net
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