“Each year more than one trillion dollars goes up in smoke. More accurately, it is stolen from the middle and working classes and shipped off to the one percent. I am talking about the massive yearly bill to maintain the US empire. None of this trillion dollars taken from us is spent to keep us safe, despite what politicians say. In fact, this great rip-off actually makes us less safe and more vulnerable to a terrorist attack thanks to resentment overseas at our interventions and to the blowback it produces. The money is spent to maintain existing conflicts and to create new areas of conflict overseas that in turn feeds the demands for more military spending.”
Related posts:
Veteran’s Guns Confiscated After Forced ‘Psychiatric Evaluation’
Forget Terrorism: The Real Reason Behind The Qatar Crisis Is Natural Gas
Latest War is a Defense Bureaucrat’s Wet Dream
The Future of Building Your Own Guns
Hangover Heaven: The Vegas Hangover Cure on Wheels
StopWatching.Us: Rally Against Mass Surveillance 10/26/13
IMF pronounces Bulgaria’s banks safe, 2 weeks before bank run
Congress resumes attacks on emigrants: the Ex-PATRIOT Act is back
Silver Demand Surges In India While Gold Premiums at $35/oz In China
In U.S., Fewer Young Adults Holding Full-Time Jobs in 2013
Rail Fails While Pipelines Prevail
Democrats and “Internet Freedom”
Cop Misses Unarmed Woman, Shoots 6-Year-Old Boy Dead Instead
Developers Scramble to Build NSA-Proof Email
Video: Cops Shoot, Kill Subdued Man, Mock Him While He Lay Dying