No war since at least the Korean War and more likely World War II has been to “fight for our freedoms.” Such wars have been to enrich the “DEFENSE CONTRACTORS” and oil corporations of the “military-industrial complex” that (Republican) Eisenhower warned us about, who want to offer up our young heroes as human sacrifices on the blood-spattered altar of greedy corporate profits — to blow things up and destroy things and KILL PEOPLE instead of building up our physical and human infrastructure to actually make our economy work better and build things instead of destroying them.
When the military asks for more money to kill and destroy to enrich greedy corporate profits (or give corporate welfare or tax giveaways to their rich donors), no Republicans or “moderate” Democrats ask how we are going to pay for it. They just rubber stamp it.
But when we ask for a fraction of that amount, with pitifully modest tax increases on the most profitable corporations few richest elites at the top — an infinitesimal fraction of the top marginal tax rates we required from them from 1950 until Reagan began his war on working people in the 1980’s — to pay for modest benefits for those most in need, in ways that help them transition off dependency and into self-sufficiency, hypocritical howls of “fiscal responsibility” from those who have never balanced a budget or even reduced an annual budget deficit from one year to the next fill the airwaves of the corporate, conservative mass media — all of which are owned by very wealthy corporations and billionaires, no exceptions, though some are more overt about it than others — and the rich get richer and press down the boot of oppression on the necks of those whose labor make such wealth possible.
No war since at least the Korean War and more likely World War II has been to “fight for our freedoms.” Such wars have been to enrich the “DEFENSE CONTRACTORS” and oil corporations of the “military-industrial complex” that (Republican) Eisenhower warned us about, who want to offer up our young heroes as human sacrifices on the blood-spattered altar of greedy corporate profits — to blow things up and destroy things and KILL PEOPLE instead of building up our physical and human infrastructure to actually make our economy work better and build things instead of destroying them.
When the military asks for more money to kill and destroy to enrich greedy corporate profits (or give corporate welfare or tax giveaways to their rich donors), no Republicans or “moderate” Democrats ask how we are going to pay for it. They just rubber stamp it.
But when we ask for a fraction of that amount, with pitifully modest tax increases on the most profitable corporations few richest elites at the top — an infinitesimal fraction of the top marginal tax rates we required from them from 1950 until Reagan began his war on working people in the 1980’s — to pay for modest benefits for those most in need, in ways that help them transition off dependency and into self-sufficiency, hypocritical howls of “fiscal responsibility” from those who have never balanced a budget or even reduced an annual budget deficit from one year to the next fill the airwaves of the corporate, conservative mass media — all of which are owned by very wealthy corporations and billionaires, no exceptions, though some are more overt about it than others — and the rich get richer and press down the boot of oppression on the necks of those whose labor make such wealth possible.