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Where's the outrage?-$6.3 trillion in projected 10 year defence spending

source: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/feature/2009/11/13/deficit_hawks

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...but *ONE* trillion for healthcare is not "fiscally responsible". Really?

The Real Deficit Hawks

When the House considered a healthcare expansion proposal that the CBO says will reduce the deficit by $11 billion a year, tea party protesters and Congress' self-described "fiscal conservatives" opposed it on cost grounds. At the same time, almost none of them objected when Congress passed a White House-backed bill to spend $636 billion on defense in 2010.

The hypocrisy is stunning -- lots of "budget hawk" complaints about health legislation reducing the deficit and few ”budget hawk” complaints about defense initiatives that, according to Government Executive magazine, "puts the president on track to spend more on defense, in real dollars, than any other president has in one term of office since World War II." And that estimate doesn't even count additional spending on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

So, as Bob Dole might ask, where's the public outrage at the contradiction? It's nowhere. Well, why not?

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One clear answer is values -- or lack thereof. In our militaristic culture, we are taught to prioritize Pentagon spending over everything else.

Another less obvious answer is ignorance sown by skewed reporting.

The health bill's expenditures are typically described by reporters in 10-year, $1 trillion terms while defense spending is described -- if at all -- as a one-year, $636 billion outlay. That can lead citizens to think the healthcare bill will cost more than defense -- when, in fact, the 10-year comparison pits a $1 trillion healthcare bill against $6.3 trillion in projected defense spending.

But even that's not apples to apples. Political headlines of late have all been some version of Dow Jones newswire's recent screamer: "CBO Puts Health Bill Cost At $1 Trillion." That's as true as an Enron press release touting only one side of the company's ledger. Though the bill's expenditures do total $1 trillion, the CBO confirms its other provisions recover more than that, meaning headlines should read "CBO Says Health Bill Saves $110 Billion."
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46 comments // Where's the outrage?-$6.3 trillion in projected 10 year defence spending

  • artemis6
  • EmperorThan
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      EmperorThan  

    • Hey BUDDY they're protecting our freedom!!!! ...you know, the freedom that is directly contradicted by our drug and prostitution laws.

    • 2 years ago
  • FoosMaster
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      FoosMaster  

    • But we Have to protect Dick Cheney’s, I mean Halliburton's, I mean KBR's profits and taxpayer funded contracts that they were given without bidding. We should not question their principles, tactics, and salaries. America should just take whatever we want, who's gonna stop us. And who needs healthcare reform. There are millions of deaths each year in America and only about 50,000 are due to lack of healthcare, not so bad. Hey, shit happens, deal with it. Having a military that can fight multiple wars and still fund Billions of dollars in research on new technologies for killing people is far more important than saving the lives of just 50,000 poor people per year, we should just get rid of them anyway, they are just a burden on the country and our wonderful "too big to fail" companies can’t make money on them so they are just worthless. We need to spend whatever is needed to protect the foreign interests of our big corporations and the huge profits of our military contractors.

    • 2 years ago
  • WhiteNoise
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      WhiteNoise  

    • I've seen the future, brother: it is murder.

      He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable an ignorable war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." - Albert Einstein

      http://www.antiwar.com/

    • 2 years ago
  • zphoenixdownz
  • fun_size
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      fun_size  

    • Our military spending accounts for MORE THAN HALF the entire worlds spending on defense. Honestly im all for having a strong and well supplied military but we really dont need 800 military bases around the world. It just furthers America's negative image as a bully and oppressive empire.

    • 2 years ago
  • shanklinmike
  • WhiteNoise
  • Mark701
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      Mark701  

    • The defense budget has become a sacorsanct cow. No Administration has a snowballs chance in hell if they are percieved to be weak on defense. That said, pentagon spending is the greatest waste of our national wealth. I would love to know what its going to be spent on.

      When you consider that we already spend more on defense than the rest of the world combined, it is truly obscene. China, our next big made up threat spends only 84 billion on defense. What is even more weird was that prior to WWII we had only the 18th largest military in the world and got along quite well.

      My view is this, let China take over the role of the worlds police force. That way we can focus on our economy and trade (where all future wars will be fought) and bankrupt THEM.

    • 2 years ago
  • Ares
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      Ares  

    • State control and funding of military function is far more critical than health care for private citizens. PERIOD.

      If you don't keep the military oiled and running well, you get violent revolution. Is that what you want instead?

      Also, it's spelled DEFENSE.

    • 2 years ago
  • lovelander
  • Ares
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      Ares  
    • Ares:

      No, violent revolution from the military itself. History tells us again and again that organized violence (state controlled military) is the most significant key to social control. The military will only put up with so much poor leadership before they up-heave the existing, broken government, and implant their own leaders, typically from within bureaucracy already in place.

      Keep the people with the weapons happy, or they will knock you out of power. This happens less frequently in advanced nations, but you can count on it happening at some point. Never underestimate the importance of keeping the military happy.

      I don't know what fantasy world you people are living in, but in the real world the people with the guns make the rules. Get used to it.

    • 2 years ago
  • fun_size
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      fun_size  
    • Ares:

      Yes i agree those with guns ultimately make the rules. However, as long as the President is the commander in chief and Generals dont have their own personal armies we should be quite safe from military coups.

      Since the end of the Cold War the US has continued to build up its armed forces while most of the world has reduced theirs. So just who are we preparing to fight? Yes worldwide terrorism is a problem, but after 2 long and costly wars and our current recession we CAN NOT continue at this pace.

    • 2 years ago
  • Ares
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      Ares  
    • Ares:

      "However, as long as the President is the commander in chief and Generals dont have their own personal armies we should be quite safe from military coups."

      That's the point. Military officers will remain loyal to existing governments only as long as they believe that they are operating well. When enough officers think that the government is failing, they will use the military as THEY see fit. The enlisted ranks are loyal to officers first, the President second, and if officers decide it's time for a new government, the enlisted men will follow them.

    • 2 years ago
  • jgritty
  • lovelander
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      lovelander  
    • Ares:

      Ares you are way off dude. You are talking about a coup via the military. And a coup cannot happen in this Country - why? because the soldiers swear an oath to protect the Country by direction of the President - their oath is not to some disjointed generals who happen to disagree with the President.

      "The military will only put up with so much poor leadership before they up-heave the existing, broken government, and implant their own leaders, typically from within bureaucracy already in place." Poor leadership? Please last eight years and yep no coup.

      You write as if you live in Thailand or something. Are you an American?

      First you write this:
      "Keep the people with the weapons happy, or they will knock you out of power." Uh huh...

      Then you write:
      "I don't know what fantasy world you people are living in, but in the real world the people with the guns make the rules."

      My friend FEAR has got you by the balls. And again you are wrong - people with the money make the rules.

      You are a gonner - pity.

    • 2 years ago
  • WhiteNoise
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      WhiteNoise  
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    • Ares:

      $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$SHOCKING !!!

      This not defense...
      IT'S EMPIRE BUILDING !
      http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/100524/

      "It does not matter if the war is not real, or when it is, victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. A hierarchal society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. The war is waged by the ruling group against its subjects, and its object is not victory, but to keep the very structure of society in tact." - George Orwell, from 1984

      "A society whose citizens refuse to see and investigate the facts, who refuse to believe that their government and their media will routinely lie to them and fabricate a reality contrary to verifiable facts, is a society that chooses and deserves the Police State Dictatorship it's going to get." - Ian Williams Goddard

    • 2 years ago
  • Ares
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      Ares  
    • Ares:

      lovelander -

      I don't know how I can make this any clearer for you. There has already been one military coup in our history, 233 years ago. The fact that it was against what we now call a "foreign" government is irrelevant.

      Military officers swear under the same oath that every other serviceman does, but if you know anything about, well, reality, you know that oaths are broken all the time. Consider perjury, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman," or "I have no more territorial ambitions in Europe."

      I'm a natural born American. Made in the U.S.A., baby. You're telling me how you think it works, I'm telling you how it actually works. Just like a white collar worker answers to the office manager instead of the CEO of the business, military servicemen answer to their superiors and officers on a regular basis, and they command their loyalty.

      Again, I'm not sure how to simplify this any further. The people with the guns make the rules, and if they aren't kept happy, they will do what is necessary to ensure security and stability, even if it means deposing the broken government that they swore allegiance to. They want to be loyal to a functioning bureaucracy, not a busted system.

      As far as your dismissal of my claim that the people with the guns make the rules, that I am somehow living in fear... guess what? I AM the people with the guns. It isn't fear, it's reality. I'm sorry you're so swept up in... whatever the fuck it is you're talking about, but you're arguing against not only my personal beliefs and experience, but against the professional beliefs of countless university professors and independent scientists I have studied under.

      Nice try, though. "Pity." lmao..

    • 2 years ago
  • RaceBannon
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      RaceBannon  
    • Ares:

      no ares,

      he's right money controls the world and the military not the other way around. If we bankrupt the military or stop funding it then nothing would happen except gas prices would finally go up just as it is in europe.

    • 2 years ago
  • Ares
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      Ares  
    • Ares:

      Who holds more power, a man offering to give you $100, or a man threatening to shoot you in the head if you don't give him 80 of those dollars?

      That's what I thought.

    • 2 years ago
  • lovelander
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      lovelander  
    • Ares:

      A part of me wants to advise you to go get some counseling.

      Based on your logic the USA citizens should continue to pay the military industrial complex billions of dollars a year to keep them HAPPY. Because if they get mad at you they will turn off your electricity? Uh huh...you do see this is ridiculous.

      I do not prescribe to your extremely cynical outlook for America. I do not have delusions of revolution and military coups. The point of the article is to show about how much tax money will be spent on our military - that has not won a war since WW2.

      And yes you do have a heavy dose FEAR controlling you. Why else would you need guns in "your bedroom"? The boogie man? Live in the ghetto?

      My favorite part is where you use university professionals and scientists as verification for delusions. I thought both parties were ver boten to the right.

    • 2 years ago
  • RaceBannon
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      RaceBannon  
    • Ares:

      I get ares point to a small degree, the government has laws, but it can enforce laws with force via police actions by whomever (in our case we have too many organizations). The point were we part is your assertion that the military needs to be fed to keep them from performing a coup. Its a wild accusation and you're forgetting the military generals would have no idea of what do with the country during a coup, at best most the these guys are good at taking orders from a suit, rarely the other way around.

      However history shows that governments cannot always suppress a well thought out opposition. Are you familiar with the french revolution?

    • 2 years ago
  • Ares
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      Ares  
    • Ares:

      love -

      I want to advise you to seek living in the real world that the rest of us live in. I don't know where that electricity example came from. We keep the military happy by paying for their efficient function so that they don't violently over throw the government. When did electricity enter into the equation?

      Why do I keep firearms in my bedroom? Ever heard of home invasions?

      I honestly have no idea where you're coming from, here, you're all over the place. If you disagree with me, you disagree with countless sociological studies, and the professionals who publish those studies.

      Enjoy your self-righteousness.

    • 2 years ago
  • lovelander
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      lovelander  
    • Ares:

      "We keep the military happy by paying for their efficient function so that they don't violently over throw the government."

      So your are afraid of our military. Just say it. I happen to like my Country's military and will never fear the good folks who work tirelessly to protect it.

      Why do I keep firearms in my bedroom? Ever heard of home invasions?

      Yes and they are most likely to happen in a ghetto. So you live in a ghetto. Just say it.

      If you disagree with me, you disagree with countless sociological studies, and the professionals who publish those studies.

      I disagree with you and your non-sited studies by unnamed experts. You got nothing!

      Lastly who ever is telling you that our military has some secret agenda to overthrow our government if not funded properly - you as an American have the duty to tell them to FUCK OFF and pull their heads out of their asses. That is the most ludicrous statement ever uttered.

      Go tell your neighbor about that and see what they say.

      embarrassing

    • 2 years ago
  • pjacobs51
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      pjacobs51  
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    • Ares:

      The real world:

      Tonkin Gulf Lie Launched Vietnam War, Over a million people die, including over 50,000 Americans. The cost to the US $150.00 billion in direct expenses. Indirect expenses would probably total at least that, while still other costs-such as payments to veterans, interest on debt incurred etc-are all but unending.

      WMDs lie launched Iraq War, cost an estimated $860 billion, and yes lots of people died. Indirect expenses still pending.

      "War is hell, there ought not to be any"

      ~ unknown WWII soldier.

    • 2 years ago
  • Ares
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      Ares  
    • Ares:

      I can't tell if you're just being stubborn, or are just accidentally not comprehending what I'm saying. Let me answer your questions sequentially so you can understand:

      I am not afraid of the military. I'm joining the military as an OFFICER this spring.

      I don't live in the ghetto, I live in the suburbs. If you think home invasions never happen outside run-down inner cities, you're fooling yourself.

      OK, you asked for it pal, here's just a few off the top of my head:

      1. "A Revolutionary Theory of Revolutions" Theda Skocpol

      - This is the pioneering study that veers away from Marxian ideology (money rules the world) and steers toward political ideology (control of organized violence, THE MILITARY, rules the world.)

      For your enjoyment: "If the state is military at its core, we have the starting point of a new theory of revolutions. Revolutions are not possible as long as the military apparatus of the state holds together... The most basic condition for revolution is the breakup of the army and internal security ofrces which keep the state in power."

      2. Dr. Neal M. King, Professor of Sociology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. You know us as Virginia Tech. Professes the power of keeping the military happy by adequate funding, or lose control of the state.

      3. Immanuel Wallerstein

      - I'll save you the time-consuming method of proving you wrong and simply provide you with the main assertion that applies to this discussion:

      - Global politics remain centered upon military control, even as global trade practices evolve to suit shifts in power.

      And lastly, I NEVER said that the military was planning a secret coup to take control of the government. If you go back and read (it's tough, I know!) you'll see comments like this one!

      "The military will only put up with so much poor leadership before they up-heave the existing, broken government, and implant their own leaders, typically from within bureaucracy already in place."

      The point there is, the military CAN overthrow the government IF they so choose, because they hold the ultimate and unwavering power of the state: ORGANIZED VIOLENCE.

      I'd love to see your credentials and rationale that makes you think you inexplicably know more than these people.

      Have a terrible day.

    • 2 years ago
  • Stargate2077
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      Stargate2077  
    • Ares:

      There are people who believe hard power (i.e. military) controls everything and keep a country going. There are others that believe soft power (i.e. trade, international libraries, education, etc.) can keep a country going.

      It seems that this philosophical difference is part of what divides conservatives and liberals in the United States. Those who view hard power as primary often cite soft power as not having hard empirical data to show its effects and thus ignore soft power as having any effect and a waste of time and money. Those who view soft power as primary often cite hard power as being self-destructive and costly to maintain as time goes on due to how hard power is viewed as methods for an empire rather than a democratic government in today's world.

      At the end of the day, my opinion is that both hard and soft power have to be maintained in balance in order to hold what I have heard people term as American ascendancy on the international stage. What is your opinion on these larger philosophical viewpoints?

    • 2 years ago
  • lovelander
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      lovelander  
    • Ares:

      The point there is, the military CAN overthrow the government IF they so choose, because they hold the ultimate and unwavering power of the state: ORGANIZED VIOLENCE.

      Sure the military CAN overthrow the government - no argument there - but will they - NOPE. That is your delusion. I CAN go rob a bank - will I - nope. That is my point.

      Good luck as an officer I will be here providing your welfare.

    • 2 years ago
  • lovelander
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      lovelander  
    • Ares:

      @stargate

      On the a larger scale sure they needs to be a balance between soft and hard power. I am all for a strong and robust military, but at what cost? this country is bankrupt and the American return on military investment is non-existent. I would like to see the military budget cut by 30% for the next 5 years.

    • 2 years ago
  • WhiteNoise
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      WhiteNoise  

    • MEANWHILE...

      Pentagon’s Black Budget Grows to More Than $50 Billion
      http://current.com/items/91322143_pentagon-s-black-budget-grows-to-more-than-50-...

      HALLIBURTON / KBR STEALING US BLIND !
      http://current.com/items/89801957_halliburton-kbr-stealing-us-blind.htm

      Making a killing on war!
      http://current.com/items/89660159_making-a-killing-on-war.htm

      PENTAGON SCORES A BIGGER RIP-OFF THAN BAILOUT
      http://current.com/items/89342370_pentagon-scores-a-bigger-rip-off-than-bailout....

      FOR THOSE STILL WONDERING WHERE THE MONEY GOES,
      A LITTLE HISTORY PRIMER MIGHT COME IN HANDY ;)

      MAKING THE WORLD SAFE FOR HYPOCRISY
      http://mtwsfh.blogspot.com/

      This is what is called, in the history biz, a revisionist history. American history, at least as far as the general public knows it, is in desperate need of revision, bringing what is taught and what is said about America's past more in line with the truth.

      Making the World Safe For Hypocrisy is a chronology of the largely suppressed history of the United States. It is the history that good upstanding Americans are not supposed to know.

      Almost everything you read here is based on publicly available information and most historians know all about it. And yet they remain strangely silent, allowing the fantasyland, propagandized version of American history and the fatuous pseudo-patriotic nonsense spewed by politicians and the mass media to stand unchallenged.

      ANTI-AMERICAN?

      Whenever anyone dares to point out the painfully obvious fact that the U.S. and its leaders have for two hundred years consistently acted in a fashion diametrically opposed to the values which America claims to represent, that person is instantly accused of being anti-American.

      Am I anti-American? I don't think so. But, if believing in free speech and real democracy is anti-American, then I guess I am. If believing that a government should not lie endlessly is anti-American, then I guess I am. If believing that a government should not spy on its own citizens is anti-American, then I guess I am. If believing that a government should not kidnap, torture and murder is anti-American, then I guess I am. If believing that a government shouldn't slaughter millions of innocent people simply to further enrich the same old handful of psychopathic bastards and their offspring is anti-American, then I guess I am.

      Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar. - Julius Caesar IV

    • 2 years ago
  • RaceBannon
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      RaceBannon  

    • if it makes everyone feel better this is how america will sink, by doing what every failed empire has done, expanding its military. As for the potential aftermath of a bloated military in a country going broke, well thats another very sad conversation.

    • 2 years ago
  • WhiteNoise
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      WhiteNoise  

    • WHAT YOU IGNORE ABOUT THE WAR
      A quick & awful reminder of the insanity of it all & Gonzo's eulogy of our crumbling empire...

      " The U.S. Treasury is empty, we are losing that stupid, fraudulent chickencrap war in Iraq, and every country in the world except a handful of corrupt Brits despises us. We are losers, and that is the one unforgivable sin in America.
      Beyond that, we have lost the respect of the world and lost two disastrous wars in three years. Afghanistan is lost, Iraq is a permanent war zone, our national economy is crashing all around us, the Pentagon's ‘war strategy’ has failed miserably, nobody has any money to spend, and our once-mighty U.S. America is paralyzed by mutinies in Iraq and even Fort Bragg.

      The American nation is in the worst condition I can remember in my lifetime, and our prospects for the immediate future are even worse. I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.

      Our highway system is crumbling, our police are dishonest, our children are poor, our vaunted Social Security, once the envy of the world, has been looted and neglected and destroyed by the same gang of ignorant greed-crazed bastards who brought us Vietnam, Afghanistan, the disastrous Gaza Strip and ignominious defeat all over the world. The stock market will never come back, our armies will never again be No. 1.

      We have become a monster in the eyes of the whole world – a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us… No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we’ll kill you." - Hunter "Gonzo" Thompson
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsrMzfhdmkU&feat...

      Global Warfare USA: The World is the Pentagon's Oyster
      US military operations in all major regions of the World
      http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16111

    • 2 years ago
  • WhiteNoise
  • WhiteNoise
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      WhiteNoise  
    • WhiteNoise:

      WHAT YOU IGNORE ABOUT THE WAR
      A quick & awful reminder of the insanity of it all & Gonzo's eulogy of our crumbling empire...

      " The U.S. Treasury is empty, we are losing that stupid, fraudulent chickencrap war in Iraq, and every country in the world except a handful of corrupt Brits despises us. We are losers, and that is the one unforgivable sin in America.
      Beyond that, we have lost the respect of the world and lost two disastrous wars in three years. Afghanistan is lost, Iraq is a permanent war zone, our national economy is crashing all around us, the Pentagon's ‘war strategy’ has failed miserably, nobody has any money to spend, and our once-mighty U.S. America is paralyzed by mutinies in Iraq and even Fort Bragg.

      The American nation is in the worst condition I can remember in my lifetime, and our prospects for the immediate future are even worse. I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.

      Our highway system is crumbling, our police are dishonest, our children are poor, our vaunted Social Security, once the envy of the world, has been looted and neglected and destroyed by the same gang of ignorant greed-crazed bastards who brought us Vietnam, Afghanistan, the disastrous Gaza Strip and ignominious defeat all over the world. The stock market will never come back, our armies will never again be No. 1.

      We have become a monster in the eyes of the whole world – a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us… No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we’ll kill you." - Hunter "Gonzo" Thompson

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsrMzfhdmkU&feature=player_embedded

    • 2 years ago
  • cadex
  • Incredulous
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      Incredulous  

    • Let's see now...where is all that money going...below are just 4 of the contracts awarded yesterday. There were 6 more awarded that wouldn't fit on this post...but you can go to the DOD website and find out for yourself. NOTE how many of these contracts are not competitively procured.

      Spreading the seeds of Democracy...

      Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, Inc., Newport News, Va., is being awarded a $96,682,393 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for engineering, technical, design, configuration management, integrated logistics support, database management, research and development, modernization, trade, and industrial support for Los Angeles, Seawolf, Virginia, Ohio SSBN, and Ohio SSGN Class submarines, special mission submersible interfaces, submarine support facilities, as well as Foreign Military Sales programs. This contract includes options which, if exercised, will bring the total cumulative value of the contract to $635,287,686. Work will be performed in Newport News, Va., and is expected to be completed by September 2010. Contract funds in the amount of $44,473,900 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-10-C-2102).

      Lockheed Martin MS2, Manassas, Va., is being awarded a $59,592,068 cost-plus incentive-fee, performance based, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide development, integration, and testing of the multistatic active coherent modification to the P-3C aircraft acoustic subsystem and tactical software. Work will be performed in Manassas, Va. (80 percent), and Patuxent River, Md. (20 percent), and is expected to be completed in November 2014. Contract funds in the amount of $400,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to FAR 6.302-1. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity (N00421-10-D-0003).

      Northrop Grumman Corp., Electronic Systems, Linthicum Heights, Md., is being awarded a $44,490,000 modification under previously awarded cost-plus-incentive-fee contract (M67854-07-C-2072) to increase the estimated cost ceiling for the Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar System development and demonstration, target cost, and target cost plus target fee of contract line item number 0001 by $17,490,000 to reflect undefinitized change orders for the UPX40, change to medium tactical vehicle replacement as the prime mover and the up armor. Additionally, this contract modification increases the estimated cost ceiling, target cost and target cost plus target fee of contract line item number 0001 in increase by an additional $27,000,000 to reflect the estimated cost increase associated with the 9 month schedule extension. Work will be performed in Linthicum Heights, Md. (75 percent), and Syracuse, N.Y. (25 percent). Work is expected to be completed Sept. 15, 2011. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.

      The L3/Interstate Electronics Corp., Anaheim, Calif., is being awarded a $39,187,635 cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide flight test data acquisition, processing and analysis of the TRIDENT missile flight test missions for the United States and United Kingdom. This contract contains options, which if exercised, would bring the contract value to $49,437,854. Work will be performed in Anaheim, Calif. (50 percent); Austin, Texas (20 percent); Ascension Island (10 percent); Cape Canaveral, Fla. (10 percent); and St. Croix (10 percent). Work is expected to be completed Sept. 30, 2010 (Sept. 2012 with options). Contract funds in the amount of $33,863,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The contract was not competitively procured.

    • 2 years ago
  • bansheewail
  • derk
  • kennymotown
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      kennymotown  

    • The military industrial complex owns us all, we are all just slaves to the corporations that are robbing us blind to make killing machines that will end up killing us. NO HEALTHCARE for the people but we sure can feed the defense department. Every time the people fall for the terrorist attacks that should be dealt with the justice department oh no some republican politician spouts off and claims we are at war with Islam. When we spend the trillions to fight these trumped up wars the terrorist win. So what if we kill a thousand of them 100,000 replace them the whole world will soon be our enemy and the scared little pigs that control your minds fake you into this unnecessary military spending while the country and it's people crumble within.

    • 2 years ago
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      Ozzykozzy2  

    • WHAT THE F*CK!?!?!?
      THEY JUST GOT 700BILLION LAST YEAR! WHERE THE HELL IS ALL THIS MONEY GOING?!?!?! THATS 1.4 TRILLION DOLLARS WITHIN 12 GODDAYM MONTHS!!!!!

    • 2 years ago
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