![]() ![]() Of course this does not take into account the instability in Egypt, Libya, Eastern and Central Africa that threatens even more war or the potential of turmoil in Europe should the Euro Crisis bring about more financial disaster or even revolution in countries that are our allies. Tens of thousands more (mostly contractors) are helping to shore up the Iraqi government or are fighting wars by other names in Pakistan, Yemen, the Horn of Africa or are deployed to counter Iran or standing by to assist Turkey if it comes into conflict with Syria. Right now over 100,000 American military personnel and tens of thousands of other Department of Defense, Federal law enforcement, intelligence, diplomatic, humanitarian workers as well as contractors are fighting a war in Afghanistan. ![]() Of course those that make this point are almost always the same lobbyists that shill for the defense industries and the banks. The losers will be the military personnel who must fight the wars who will get tossed onto the street by those that claim that personnel costs are the problem. The only people profiting from this are the war profiteers who even if the budget gets cut and they fail to deliver usable weapon systems on time or in budget will still get paid. There are no statesmen left in Washington DC only shills of the Right and Left and their masters from Wall Street to K Street. Again this didn’t need to happen but brinksmanship is the order of the day. The Republicans are now trying to change it and the Administration is refusing to budge on the issue. It is this act which now threatens the military which is at war with “sequestration.” This threatens deep cuts in the military beyond those already anticipated and planned for by DOD. This finally hit the culminating point when GOP pushed through the self inflicted wound of the Budget Control Act of 2012. The simple act of working together in the legislative process has been sabotaged by both parties over the years. That goes for Liberals as well as Conservatives. ![]() Anyone with a half a grain of sense knows that if you take something to the Supreme Court that you need to ask yourself the “Dirty Harry” question: “Do you feel lucky? Well do you punk?” When you go to the Supreme Court you put your case in front of nine Justices and not the electorate. The process is to win elections if you want to change laws not to threaten civil war or revolution when the cause that you are against and take to the Supreme Court gets upheld for whatever reason. That makes my blood boil, we are at war and this idiot wants to have a real live civil war and he is not alone. I saw the “tweet” of a Michigan Republican party leader asking if “armed revolt was now justified” because of the Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare. Maybe it is just me but it doesn’t seem that anybody in Washington has a damned bit of sense. Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, the Persian Gulf, Libya, Egypt, Pakistan, you name the place there is a real a present danger of US forces becoming involved in even more war. With all the domestic political news and the apocalyptic talk and actions surrounding John Roberts the Supreme Court and Obamacare it is hard to believe that we are at war for over 10 years and are at war or now preparing for war all over the Middle East. For a great many years as a soldier I had a suspicion that war was a racket not only until I retired to civilian life did I fully realize it….” Back -breaking taxation for generations and generations. Depression and all of its attendant miseries. What is the cost of war? what is the bill? Major General Smedley Butler wrote: “This bill renders a horrible accounting.
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