death economy anniversary

DEATH ECONOMY ANNIVERSARY
Today, you could do as Obammy wanted and volunteer. To commemorate the 9/11 anniversary, volunteer in your community. Because paying higher taxes ( "read my lips, no new taxes" just a few months before taxes went up on tobacco-again ) isn't enough, now you must give more of your labor for free. This, right after he wanted the Girl Scouts to be the vanguard for the new Junior Stormtroopers. This guy really has no shame. Not any worse than Baby Bush's program of walking shoeless through body cavity searches at the airport, but certainly not much better. I would like to commemorate the anniversary by pointing out what idiots we are for this whole jingoistic knee jerk flag waving thing. I certainly don't discount the heroism of the rescue workers. I don't argue that it was tragic civilians died. And I applaud those guys ( and begrudgingly those gals-it isn't okay to send girls into the war zone ) in the military that are giving their all, despite being dragged into a needless political war. What I don't like is the general brainwashing most folks willingly embrace about the whole thing.
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I don't claim to know who was behind the attack. It certainly wasn't as simple a matter as a few camel jockeys going from Cessna flying lessons to precession jetliner target practice. My guess would be the bankers. But to be fair I blame everything on them, from inflation to Gore Warming to perhaps even ex-wife #2. So let's just say there are far too many unanswered questions and the simplistic script we were given by Cheney and party might fool the Big Brother watching legions of idiocy but can't stand up to the simplest scrutiny. Why did a building that wasn't hit and that was far away also fall down? Why was the entrance on the Pentagon hit smaller than a jetliner body or engine? It is not my intent to spend decades trying to unravel a mystery much more complex than a simple sniper attack from a grassy knoll using a Magic Bullet. While interesting, the details don't concern me all that much. What concerns me is who benefited from the attack. Directly, the military industrial complex. Indirectly, it gets much more complex. And much more interesting. But who could actually argue that our economy wasn't helped immensely by the huge increase in military and security spending? Even absent all conspiracies, even buying the official party line, the fact stands that war is the health of the state.
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The bankers had been scheming and plotting for centuries to get a central bank in this country. We had a few half assed attempts being in the nineteenth century and during the War of Northern Aggression. And in a way, it was inevitable. An Industrial Age economy needs money expansion for growth. But the price paid has been servitude. And the benefits from industry didn't last as long as our debt to the bankers. But finally a few ass whores in Congress cheaply sold out their great grandchildren's future and put the bankers in power. WWI saw the first state sponsored debt and slaughter that continues to this day. I could argue that no conflict in our history outside of the Indian eradication and rebellion against England was necessary for our survival ( and the native wars were for land based wealth rather than settler survival- but without the expansion and resource grab we wouldn't have survived a takeover by Europeans ) but the twentieth century wars were far worse in their futility and waste of life. World War One was about securing the bankers loans to Europeans, in jeopardy in the event of defeat. And credit expansion to become the breadbasket of Europe. World War Two was the only thing making the recovery from the Depression possible ( and the Fed created the Depression to start with ). And from the dropping of the atom bomb on Japan, we have constantly been at war.
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The Cold War was contrived from Day One. We could have nuked Moscow and been king of the world. But we were afraid of going back into the Depression. As a quick aside, the Depression, as I said, was caused by the bankers. But it also marked the end of our Industrial Economy. We were never the same in quality or quantity as compared to before 1929. After the war, colonial resource grabs in commodity theft and foreigners subsidizing the dollar started growing in importance rather than the previous free market economy we once had. But let's not get too far off track. To offset the possibility of regressing again economically, we started the Cold War. And I really believe we helped the Commies get the nuclear weapon knowledge they needed to help prolong the war indefinitely. Unless we actually stole all that from the Nazi's and the Ruskies got a few of the choice scientists themselves. But that is more far fetched. We needed to continue war to keep the economy going, but it couldn't be at previous levels. Even our country, blessed in oil ( at one time the globes leading exporter ) and ore couldn't keep up war level production for too long. But expanding the military to immense levels, justified by our manufactured bogeyman, compromised the need for spending with the need to husband our resources.
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Hot wars were needed from time to time. If your military goes too long without fighting they turn into a paper tiger. So every decade we start a war. We kind of skipped the eighties, still recovering from the First Oil Wars. But it has been pretty much as regular as clockwork otherwise ( and even in the eighties we did keep everyone on their toes with practice runs in Grenada/Lebanon/Panama ). I'm not trying to trivialize the patriotism of our soldiers. When you are eighteen and full of energy, you want to believe in Mom and Apple Pie and go kill something. They are doing their duty. I blame the government for an unnecessary war and the mindless cheerleaders applauding it. Not that voting counts anymore, but the mouth breathers pulling the level for War Hawk candidates doesn't know that. I hope you know better.
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