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    Feeds The Rich, Buries The Poor

    From the above link, I will start with three charts

    We never recovered after the dot com bust!





    I will continue with some of the article

    I don't need your civil war
    It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
    You're power hungry sellin' soldiers
    In a human grocery store
    Ain't that fresh
    I don't need your civil war

    Look at the shoes you're filling
    Look at the blood we're spilling
    Look at the world we're killing
    The way we've always done before
    Look in the doubt we've wallowed
    Look at the leaders we've followed
    Look at the lies we've swallowed
    And I don't want to hear no more

    Guns N Roses – Civil War

    George Washington, a true American warrior, understood that a large military establishment was dangerous to the Republic. He spent eight years in the field fighting for American Independence. He understood the power of a large dominant military.

    “Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.”

    George Washington

    What most people do not understand is the relationship between the Federal Reserve and war. The Federal Reserve is responsible for every economic difficulty that afflicts our nation. Without a Federal Reserve creating fiat paper currency out of thin air, an empire could not wage continuous war. There is no clearer proof than evaluating major U.S. military conflicts prior to 1913 versus after the creation of the Federal Reserve. Between 1791 and 1913 (122 years) the U.S. engaged in only four major conflicts:
    • War of 1812
    • Mexican-American War
    • Civil War
    • Spanish-American War


    Only the War Between the States can be considered significant and it was fought solely on U.S. soil. The Federal Reserve was created in 1913 by bankers in collusion with politicians in Washington DC. This private central bank, run by a cartel of major banks, has encouraged politicians to wage war. Continuous conflict enriches bankers, as all the money used to wage war is borrowed from them. This may explain why between 1913 and 2010 (97 years) the U.S. has engaged in eleven significant foreign conflicts:
    • World War I
    • World War II
    • Korean War
    • Vietnam War
    • Grenada Invasion
    • Panama Invasion
    • Gulf War
    • Somalia
    • Kosovo War
    • Afghan War
    • Iraq War

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    Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution says Congress has the power to coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin and to declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water. The corrupt politicians who have controlled the country for the last century have abrogated their power to coin money to a secretive private bank run by crooked bankers. Since 1941 Congress has failed in their Constitutional duty to be the branch of government that commits citizens of the U.S. to war. They have allowed the executive branch to decide when Americans will die and for what causes. The Bush Doctrine, created by Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz, is policy of preventative war, which holds that the United States should topple foreign regimes that represent a potential or perceived threat to the security of the United States, even if that threat is not immediate; a policy of spreading democracy around the world, especially in the Middle East, as a strategy for combating terrorism; and a willingness to pursue U.S. military interests in a unilateral way. Should the American people follow the doctrine of men who never served a day in the U.S. military and have no difficulty in wiping their blood stained hands all over the U.S. Constitution or a wise Founding Father who risked his life to create that Constitution?

    “The Constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.”
    George Washington


    Ronald Reagan increased military spending dramatically in the 1980s in an effort to bankrupt the Soviet Union. Total spending on defense in the decade reached $3.8 trillion. The collapse of the only country in the world that threatened the U.S. militarily left a vacuum in the 1990s. This peace dividend resulted in military spending decreasing to $3.3 trillion in the 1990s. Defense companies did not fare well in this decade as plants were closed and employees laid off. The 9/11 terrorist attack was a windfall for the military industrial complex, the neo-conservative Constitution burners, and privileged bankers. With no country on earth capable of competing with our immense military machine, the government used fear, loathing and false patriotism to ramp up military spending to $5.3 trillion during the just completed decade. Ask yourself who benefited from these expenditures. Are you safer? Are you better off financially today? Oil prices rose from $20 a barrel to $145 a barrel. The U.S. National debt rose from $5.7 trillion to $12.3 trillion. The financial system collapsed due to the actions of the Federal Reserve, greedy criminal bankers, and self serving corrupt politicians. And still the wars go on.
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    There are no rich dying in the deserts of Iraq and Afghanistan. There are no wealthy Wall Street bankers’ sons or daughters dying in the Middle East. Isn’t it fresh that there are 237 millionaires out of 535 members of Congress and only 10 members of Congress with a son or daughter putting their lives on the line in Iraq or Afghanistan? The facts are that the lower middle class and poor die in a foreign desert like dogs for no good reason. The rich and powerful line their pockets while selling soldiers in a human grocery store. The hypnotized masses are manipulated by government propaganda, ideologue think tanks, and corporate mainstream media. Even the financial crisis benefits the military industrial complex. Before the crisis, military recruiters had tremendous difficulty in convincing enough young people to become cannon fodder for the War on Terror. When 22% of the population is unemployed, there is no such problem. Nationwide, the Air Force reached its highest number of enlistments since 2004, and the Marines Corps was able to do enough recruiting in 2009 to go from 175,000 in its ranks to 202,000. The Army has exceeded its goal of 80,000 enlistments from 2006 to 2008, and it took in more than 70,000 soldiers, with a goal of 65,000 in 2009. The grocery store shelves have been restocked.
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    Are these the actions of a government preparing for a bright future? The ruling class sees their control slipping away. Any honest financial analyst can perceive that the country is headed for catastrophe. Hyperinflation and disintegration of the U.S. dollar are in our future. The consequence will be anger, chaos, and social unrest. The ruling elite are preparing for this by stationing troops in the U.S. and creating the means to squash any threats to their wealth and power. Now is the time to confront these traitors to the Republic. Speaking the truth, questioning authority, practicing civil disobedience, and peaceful protest are necessary to confront the evil doers today. I believe it is time for every concerned American to invoke their right to bear arms. Totalitarian states always act to install gun control laws. The biggest threat to America is from within, not from without.

    “How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?”
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    We practice selective annihilation
    Of mayors and government officials
    For example to create a vacuum
    Then we fill that vacuum
    As popular war advances
    Peace is closer

    Guns N Roses – Civil War
    I will end with Guns n Roses - Civil War



    Starting with the begining, middle and end, this should get you dander up!
    Last edited by Rajiv; January 20, 2010, 08:14 AM. Reason: modified the html

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    Re: Feeds The Rich, Buries The Poor

    Excellent post and views, I even stole the Ike & Washington quotes for the political section on my quotes page.


    The battles are not lost with very high certainty, as the Brown victory and other events have shown. The average American is not as schtoopid as many think, given time etc.


    "You can always count on Americans to do the right thing—after they’ve tried everything else."
    -- Winston Churchill
    ... and here's hoping it remains true and that time is available... and dead ahead still remains quite ugly.
    http://www.NowAndTheFuture.com

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      Re: Feeds The Rich, Buries The Poor

      Originally posted by Rajiv View Post
      Feeds The Rich, Buries The Poor

      From the above link, I will start with three charts

      We never recovered after the dot com bust!
      Okay, BUT the period of time charted was preceded by a period of decreased defense spending in the 90's. By OMB's figures for "defense and international" spending in Historical Table 15.5, defense spending during the last two decades of the Cold War (1971-1991, inclusive) averaged 5.8% of GDP; between the end of the Cold War and 9/11 (1992-2001, inclusive) the average was 3.8% of GDP. In 2008, the figure was 4.5%.

      The period of reduced defense spending following the Cold War was marked by a reduction in force structure and consolidation in the defense industry. Obviously, the increase in defense manufacturing from 2001 onward is connected to Bush's two wars, but it also has the character of a reversion to the mean rather than an excursion above that mean. (The sad thing being that war, and arming for war, has defined the 'mean' for most of our post-WWII history.)

      The other thing to think about is that the plot of % recruits versus household income doesn't appear to be normalized by the number of households in each income bracket. I would think a more meaningful chart would be the percentage of households in each income bracket from which recruits are drawn, rather than the percentage of recruits coming from each income bracket.
      Last edited by ASH; January 20, 2010, 02:57 PM.

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        Re: Feeds The Rich, Buries The Poor

        There are a couple of things I don't like about the analysis part of the article.

        The ability to take part in armed conflict also increased with the ability to tax directly and specifically the expansion of withholding in 1943.

        http://www.tax.org/Museum/1866-1900.htm and
        http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2092

        And the IRS even brags about this on their own website.

        http://www.irs.gov/irs/article/0,,id=149200,00.html

        The roots of IRS go back to the Civil War when President Lincoln and Congress, in 1862, created the position of commissioner of Internal Revenue and enacted an income tax to pay war expenses.

        This private central bank, run by a cartel of major banks, has encouraged politicians to wage war. Continuous conflict enriches bankers, as all the money used to wage war is borrowed from them. This may explain why between 1913 and 2010 (97 years) the U.S. has engaged in eleven significant foreign conflicts:
        So most recently it was the Asian Central Bankers encouraging American politicians to invade Iraq?
        Last edited by Slimprofits; January 20, 2010, 03:32 PM.

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        • #5
          Re: Feeds The Rich, Buries The Poor

          Good post and article! However, I do not see any relevance to the recruit-origin-as-a-function-of-income chart.

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