something I posted on FACEBOOK: > The Pentagon could have bake-sales. It could cut costs (fewer expensive > weapons, fewer military bases, fewer generals and admirals, etc., etc.); > after all, that's what they did after World War I. It could sell naming > rights to corporations, so the Pentagon could be renamed "the ExxonMobil > building" or "the De Beers Diamond." Drones could be renamed "DuPont Drones." > If the GOPsters allow Post Office to survive, it could issue stamps where if > people chose to buy them, half of the price would go to the Pentagon. It > could stop invading countries for free and instead charge them for the > privilege. (That is, they could make the looting official.) We're told over > and over again that we have to live with cut-backs of needed social services > so that rich people can get tax cuts -- so why can't the Pentagon learn to > live with a standard of living below the one to which they've become > accustomed? Or maybe the Pentagon could use its immense lobbying power to > push to raise taxes on the ! rich?< -- Jim Devine / If you're going to support the lesser of two evils, you should at least know the nature of that evil. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
