The Military Industrial Complex

When I think of the military and "defense," I think of the defense of the U.S. - its borders, and its people. Yet, our neighbors to the South have been invading America for over twenty-five years, with drug cartels taking backpacks full of drugs for children in the U.S. and their user-parents. Between illegal firearms and the drugs, Mexico makes between $40-70 billion, enough to run their failing economy. Add to this the sex trafficking trade of children and young teens, and America is in deep trouble. Fools like George W. Bush call those of us who want this to stop, "protectionists."  Y  ou're damn right we're protectionists. Coming from a warmonger who doesn't care how many troops come home limbless, he has a lot of chutzpah. His investments are in "defense" weapons. (George Bush, Sr. belonged to the Carlyle Investment Group with Osama's family.) And our corporate hijackers are considering Jeb Bush for 2012. God help us! The U.S. invasion is not about "race," either. President Eisenhower coined the term the Military Industrial Complex. Originally he wanted to call it the Military Industrial Congressional Complex because of the marriage of our policy makers with legislators, armed forces and the arms dealers who support them. Eisenhower warned about it in his Farewell Address.

Now, with 737 bases, that we know of, stationed all over the world and billions granted to defense contractors, we are at the mercy of the military President Eisenhower warned us about. Political contributions, jobs for family members are only some of the perks these drones in Congress receive. They travel first class by granting billions - many billions unaccounted for - to Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, General Dynamics, and GE who now employs 14,000 workers in China so that China's economy will be built up and ours will go down. This is why the word communist means nothing to these corporate crooks. It's all about slave labor and looting others' resources by bombing or at the point of a gun. But who will have the money to pay for their wars? Their products? Americans are subsidizing our demise. These companies produce tanks, missiles, F -16s, tear gas, drones, guns, helicopters - all for the purpose of killing innocent people in foreign lands and the Congress is well paid for this subsidy. And you're worried about those Islamists? Muslim Brotherhood? Shame on you. You should be praying!