A perfect example of what is so fucked up about America is captured in the defense industry threatening to send out layoff notices prior to this fall's elections if the defense budget is cut per the deal Democrats and republicans made on the debt ceiling.
Can somebody please explain to me why when an average American who has fallen on hard times seeks help from the government he or she is a lazy moocher, but when those titans of capitalism and free enterprise come with their hands out we're all too willing to hand over my hard earned tax money to people who are just too fucking lazy to find another way to make more money?
These people are enough to make a maggot puke.
Peace,
emaycee
Showing posts with label Military-Industrial Complex. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Military-Industrial Complex. Show all posts
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Thursday, May 31, 2012
We could be heroes...
There's been a lot of hullaballo (so to speak) over some words spoken by Chris Hayes on his show "Up with Chris Hayes" concerning the use of the word "hero" with regard to those serving in our military. Near as I can tell, Hayes was trying to make the point that we use the word hero perhaps too frequently in terms of the military, and this feeds our too frequent marches to war. He also admits he might be mistaken.
It seems to me much of the charade of anger on the right is because of the god-awful treatment of Vietnam vets upon their return home--there's a lot of retrograde guilt on all sides for what happened, and the right, being good at exploiting, is well, exploiting this to keep the military-industrial complex humming along. This does not mean that Hayes is wrong. Nor does it mean that our service men should be vilified. But in truth, one could make the case that the guy (or gal) going to work each day and paying the taxes that helps support our defense is, in his own way, a hero as well. It also begs the question why we as a nation refuse to give equal praise to those who seek peace.
But in the end, the biggest problem is that it makes it that much harder for another type of hero, a truth teller if you will, to convince the American people that spending more on defense than the rest of the world combined is a travesty, and the good that could be accomplished with the excess of money spent on defense. And that maybe, just maybe, we all might be a lot better off if we concentrated on peace first and more weapons second.
Peace,
emaycee
It seems to me much of the charade of anger on the right is because of the god-awful treatment of Vietnam vets upon their return home--there's a lot of retrograde guilt on all sides for what happened, and the right, being good at exploiting, is well, exploiting this to keep the military-industrial complex humming along. This does not mean that Hayes is wrong. Nor does it mean that our service men should be vilified. But in truth, one could make the case that the guy (or gal) going to work each day and paying the taxes that helps support our defense is, in his own way, a hero as well. It also begs the question why we as a nation refuse to give equal praise to those who seek peace.
But in the end, the biggest problem is that it makes it that much harder for another type of hero, a truth teller if you will, to convince the American people that spending more on defense than the rest of the world combined is a travesty, and the good that could be accomplished with the excess of money spent on defense. And that maybe, just maybe, we all might be a lot better off if we concentrated on peace first and more weapons second.
Peace,
emaycee
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