The Pentagon’s Parking Problem

 

The Pentagon has a parking issue.

 It has so much money they don’t know where to put it all. A recent headline in “Common Dreams” sums it up nicely. Here it is:

 

‘Ridiculous’: Pentagon Doesn’t Even Know What to Do With Extra $500 Billion Trump Wants to Spend

 

The article explains that the Trump syndicate wants to increase its war department’s budget by 50 percent. It took 250 years to get that budget up to a trillion dollars. Trump and his people want to add another half trillion in one year.

 

But this is such a huge addition that, according to the Washington Post,

““White House aides and defense officials have run into logistical challenges surrounding where to put the money, because the amount is so large.”

 

The Kill Line

  As everyone knows, this comes at a time when virtually any program that might directly help ordinary U.S. citizens eat, be educated, stay healthy, or breath clean air is being ruthlessly slashed. Comedian turned social critic Lee Camp puts it like this:

Most Americans right now can’t afford a $1,000 emergency without finding themselves neck-deep in debt and/or poverty. About half of all American children live at or near the poverty line, often going without basic necessities. The younger generation – trying to make sense of this morally vacant system by using video game terminology – have begun referring to this as “the kill line.”

 

Every Day is Laundry Day at the Pentagon

 Camp’s use of the phrase “money laundering machine” is a reference to the corruption and waste already rampant in the war department.  As he says, “Tax dollars are taken, rinsed in a big washing machine called “national defense,” and then spit out into the pockets of bloodthirsty war profiteering contractors.”

 

This is all textbook, predictable behavior of a declining empire. The ruling elites loot the treasury to make themselves obscenely rich. Then they let the peasantry starve while they bankrupt the country while looting faraway resources at gunpoint.

It actually works well, if you’re a billionaire with no conscience.

 

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