KEEP IT SIMPLE: War is corporate welfare

[yurbud]

Our tax dollars and troops lives are being spent to help the rebuilding, defense, and most of all oil industry profit.

Like other forms of corporate welfare like the R & D money we give pharmaceutical companies, rather than be grateful, these companies take our money then gouge us as much as they can bribe Congress to let them get away with.

[sweetheart]

1. its the war tax that;'ll break it

I wholly agree, however its framed. I've been calling it a war tax, for precisely the reasons you
maintain, framed like "death tax" in the ludicrous sillyness of a world that has failed at war with
incompetent interventions leaving us with serious concern over a civil future world.

[Cleita]

2. I can't disagree with you. War has been fought for

the most part since ancient times for the enrichment of kings and empires at the expense of the proles and plebes. It's just that today the kings are the captains of industry. All the talk about protecting us is just BS. They have already proved how disinterested they are in protecting us with their lack of response during 9/11 and during Katrina.

[yurbud]

6. it drives me nuts that even some on left like Al Franken talk about war

in Iraq as if it really is failed idealism rather than a naked resource grab with a fig leaf of idealism that only fools some Americans (the rest of the world can see the shlong of oppression hanging past the edge of the fig leaf).

[patrice]

3. We are War Slaves.

We Kill and pay for Killing for the State.

Jesus is still here and we ARE still killing him.

[sweetheart]

5. Its become that cynical

As much as its common, and normal, expected, for that matter,
the cyncicsm that we are the new phairasees, jeering at the suffering
of the oppressed, makes me sick, and no happy propaganda cures this indigestion.

[patrice]

9. I just had someone tell me she was offended when I replied

to a question about the sign I carry on our street corner, "Jesus is still here and WE are still killing him." Someone asked me what that means. I said the Bible is alive: the "state" is Pilate; the establishment church is Herod since Herod represented the Jews, i.e. the church of the time, and all of the innocent dead, including those of our troops who are also innocent, are Jesus. The first thing she said was "I'm offended by that . . . . ." I shouldn't have, but I stopped listening at that point and when she finished I told her Jesus isn't her property and she should read Mathew 25:40 "Whatsoever you do to the least of these . . ." at which point she walked off.

I should have said Jesus is dying for you so you can shop here and get permanent hair removal.

[yurbud]

7. sounds like a song

[patrice]

8. Yep, sung to the tune of "The Volga Boatmen" under the rule

of our own despots, multi-national corporations who specialize in arms and private armies that need to be backed-up and subsidized by public cannon fodder, which means, I'd like to point out, that the ignorant and disadvantaged amongst us, enlisted and civilian, are Jesus too.

[orpupilofnature57]

4. Fascists ,Nazis, one thing for sure I II III Bush*.*Generational Warfare

At the expense of blood on many battlefields.