So it turns out that the right wing talk radio machine is aflame over the Prez’s plan to look at cutting some fat from the half trillion-dollar “defense” budget. Other than 1812, 1941 and 2001 we’ve really been more about offense than defense, but whatever. And other than WWII, when is the last time things turned out to be a big win? Korea? Tie. Viet Nam? Loss. Mogadishu? Lebanon? Iraq? Afghanistan?
Anyway, the right claims that any cuts to “defense” make us more vulnerable to terrorist attack. Huh? How the hell does an F-22 keep terrorists out? Aircraft carriers? Nuclear subs? The US spends more on “defense” than the rest of the world combined. Can you say overkill? The runners up, China and Russia? We spend 18 times what they do. 18 times. Can you say corporate welfare for the military industrial complex?
We can’t afford freaking health care, but missile frigates by the dozens are terrific. To use the military parlance, “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?” If I hear Sean Hannity say one more time, “He’s making an attack inevitable by slashing our military!” I’m gonna have to get all medieval on his ass.
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"We can’t afford freaking health care, but missile frigates by the dozens are terrific."
You are right, we can't afford health care anymore than we can Frigates. Missile Frigates and Stealth bombers against the "terror threat" is just like where the money actually goes in "Health care" versus where the threat lies. While we spend billions on symptom relief and performance enhancement drugs, we are dying of preventable diseases that only require self discipline.
Be it war on terror, or on cancer, WE never seem to address the real problems, because those with the bucks, whether lobbying for industry ( idiotic muscle cars, for instance) Military ( Things that remind me of hi tech firecrackers and all the fun things we boys like to light with matches) or the things supposedly regulated by the FDA ( think Viagra and variants) are clearly...well...Freudian analysis anyone?
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