Re-socializing the military has to be a top priority.

[K-W]

We need to get rid of the war making money hole that is the current corporate military establishment. It is the reason that we have paranoid madmen running the country, and its because large corporations want the free lunch of defense contracts.

It is the only way we can eliminate the neo-conservative influence in washington. It is the only way we can begin a reform of the military and a meaningful cut in military spending. As long as defense contractors know that they can determine thier own profits simply by influencing politics, our freedom will always be threatned.

Not to mention the incredibally scary thought of corporations with armies. Conservatives allow globalization to free corporations of any national constraints and let the corporations arm themselves... Sounds like a GREAT idea.

[maggrwaggr]

1. yes, the new "welfare queens" need to be exposed and ridiculed

Read Amy Goodman's book "The Exception to the Rulers" and she gives a wonderful run-down of all the profiteering being done by these assholes just on the Iraq front.

It's depressing as hell, actually.

It pisses me off to no end.

They use OUR money to go destroy a country which they then give out contracts to their cronies to rebuild again using OUR money.

It's classic gangster economics at work!!!!

Our country has been PLUNDERED by these people. And most Americans are just sitting back saying nothing, having no idea that they've been fucked up the ass.

[maggrwaggr]

2. I so agree with your post I'm writing a 2nd response

I don't think it's really sunk in yet to people that corporations now have ARMIES. That they are using in lands such as Iraq, but also in places such as Nigeria, where Chevron, for instance, has hired the local "kill squads" to violently squelch any kind of peaceful protests from people who have an entirely justifiable desire to share in the oil wealth of their own country for little things like jobs and schools.

Chevron has killed people who merely wanted to talk to them and discuss the situation in Nigeria.

And now we've got companies like Dyncorp who literally hires armies, and SAIC, a company with BILLIONS in revenues, mainly from government contracts, and it's not even a public company.

This country is even more fucked up than most of us HERE realize.

The more I learn, the worse it gets.