Wargasm

[salinen]

Since we produce no durable goods, or any other goods for the world markets, America is deeply dependant on the sale of killing machinery. And it's a booming business. What a charming scam it is. First, from taxes, these jets and bombs and carriers are built. So the government uses our money to produce them. Later, this same government sells these weapons. So they are paid hansomely for product that they received for free. Sweet! Where's my check?

But along with this perfect scam comes another side effect. In order to market killing machines, you must market paranoia, hate, racism, and nationalism. Otherwise, sales would fall off. Without the export of paranoia and hatred, the economy would suffer. And we wouldn't want our economy to suffer. That's an act of war in itself. Would Exxon/Mobile try to promote riding bikes?

America showcases these wares on the world stage for everyone to witness. Leveling Bagdad and Kabul are cool little demonstrations of the power, or free commercials for the McDonald Douglas's and G.E.'s.

Bring it on!

[helderheid]

1. Check out this song:

http://cdbaby.com/mp3lofi/atommusic-02.m3u

War Porn

[patrice]

2. "We are the hollow men. . .

We are the stuffed men,
Leaning together,
Headpiece filled with straw. . . ."

Look at our TV. This IS what we are. Commercials for every drug known to man, especially those drugs that make men feel more like men. Why do "we" need these things? Why are we hooked on the high produced by Death and Destruction?

Clearly, "our" meaning systems, especially Christianity primarily, have FAILED.

[salinen]

5. Wonderful

You reminded me that America must also produce warriors. And the best way is to hook them on violence early.

[patrice]

7. Oh geeezzz, I forgot to attribute it!!

That's T.S. Eliot. His poem, The Hollow Men, that ends with the famous lines, ". . . This is how the world ends, Not with a bang, But with a whimper." Made me cry the very first time I read it in high school, over 30 years ago, even though I didn't have the vaguest idea at the time what he meant. Boy! I do now.

[salinen]

14. It might end in a bang.

[patrice]

15. The only ones it will be a bang for are the ones who pull the trigger.

For all of the rest of us, it's going to be a whole lot of whimpering. ;(

[bryant69]

3. We produce no durable goods ?

No other goods?

I'm not sure this is accurate.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[sinkingfeeling]

4. You are so right. The war machine is destroying America. If there were a

true accounting of 'defense' spending, it would be over 50% of the national budget. And in just a few years, there will not be enough revenue to cover the big 3: Social Security, Medicare, and the War Machine. It's a total waste of our treasury.

"Someone once told me that politicians use war to hide economic depressions. That war-making artificially relieves unemployment, boosts productivity and helps to invent new technologies. Wars also distract the citizenry away from the failings of their own governments and focus attention on a common external enemy. Wars conceal economic depressions because wartime debt spending can be explained away as the costs of combat."

But if military spending is cut, won’t many jobs be lost? Well, the Defense Monitor states, "As far as providing jobs, military spending is a much worse investment than other federally funded programs. For example, $1 billion spent by the Pentagon on weapons, supplies and services generates 25,000 jobs. However, the same $1 billion would create 30,000 mass transit jobs, 36,000 housing jobs, 41,000 education jobs, and 47,000 health care jobs."

http://www.lewrockwell.com/sardi/sardi59.html

[salinen]

6. War for the sake of new technologies

is the lamest excuss for war ever. I'm not faulting you, you didn't invent that silly line.

[sinkingfeeling]

10. What?

[salinen]

12. You had it correct

I'm hungry

[ellisonz]

8. Team Amerika

No one even says Amerika like AMERICA anymore, it has become an object of scorn for the more perceptive masses, and an object of ignorant, submissive, and hollow utterances from the less perceptive. The blind lead the blind, on the backs of human welfare and dignity; it is done.

SOCIOGASM

[Little Wing]

9. You lost me at the first comma

[patrice]

11. WADR - Would it have been better to say . . . . ?

"Since we don't produce enough durable goods to off-set the trade deficit . . . "?

[salinen]

13. perfect

Although I'm trying to think of what durable goods are produced here.

[patrice]

16. We make cars don't we?

The Beast itself - ain't that great!

[salinen]

17. Not much longer for Ford & GM