If Pres. Obama's pledge to include war costs within the annual budget is kept, won't it become even more obvious that it's Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld's wars that have skewed our nation's fiscal position?
In 2008, when Bush, Bernanke, and Paulson began the econo-crisis drumbeat, I wondered if an imminent financial collapse was primarily about the US' Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan expenses taken on since the coup of the Bush-Cheney regime - war by fiscal slight of hand.
And that perhaps 2008's dramas of secret meetings and rushing back to Washington to inject trillions into the system were, to them, a necessary attempt at hiding this fact, plus, hiding how they had cleared out US coffers while they had the chance and no one could stop them. Kind of like setting the barn afire after you've stolen the thoroughbreds.
Now Rep. Barney Frank has written a few words which may be of interest to everyone, especially those who said pre-March 2003: America can't afford years and years of war, you obscene profiteers, you.
And the reply I always got was: America is too rich to fail: Turns out...not so much:
Cut the Military Budget
By Barney Frank
Those organizations, editorial boards and individuals who talk about the need for fiscal responsibility should be challenged to begin with the area where our spending has been the most irresponsible and has produced the least good for the dollars expended--our military. #
But do spend more to better care for the medical and re-employment needs of the men and women whose lives have been forever changed by George Bush's illegal, ill-fated, lie-based, and oil-grabbing wars.
3 comments:
yes cut the pentagon budget yes spend more on people yes yes yes now you are moving in the right direction and that would be left of center colouring outside the conservative line, I love it when comes together.
I agree but I am wondering how we will do this when we are talking of 50,000 troops in Iraq no doubt to staff that obscenity called an embassy and we are increasing the troops in Afghanistan and yesterday i heard talk of some flying thing that will cover the sky perpetually that evidently is either already developed or people really believe it can be developed.
Frankly we seem as insane as ever.
That was me, Clymela not Anonymous but this morning I understand the 50,000 troops better and I feel better after listening to Rachel and Nancy Pelosi talk. We are on a better path here.
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