Rising Military Expenditure: The Coming U.S. Budget Attack
By Shamus Cooke
Global Research, November 8, 2009
The United States is moving backwards... fast. State budget cuts are
decimating essential health and social services; public education is being
destroyed; the social safety net is in tatters. To make matters worse, all
of this is occurring when the loss of jobs stands at a twenty-six year high
with no end in sight.
But this is only phase one. The federal government intends to balance
its books too, at the expense of society's neediest. Instead of governors
presiding over painful cuts, the President will be doing the gutting. And
although his proposed budget isn't due until February, the President's
spokespeople are priming the media to play a major propaganda role in what
will be a colossal blow against working and poor people.
Obama's Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, has been particularly
busy promoting the future cutbacks, repeating that "the country must live
within its mean;" "deficits must be brought down dramatically" - something
that will "require very hard choices."
What are these hard choices? One possible option is no longer
available. The biggest annual deficit producer is the U.S. military, which
Obama will not radically reduce. Instead, he will increase it; Taxpayers
will pay $660 billion (!) in 2010 toward the military. And maybe more -
military commanders see more fighting in the future, not less; consequently,
they want more money. The New York Times reports:
"...Admiral. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
did not say how much additional money would be needed, but one figure in
circulation within the Pentagon and among outside defense budget analysts is
$50 billion." (November 4, 2009).
Senate Democrat John Murtha thinks only $40 billion extra will do the
trick, making the military budget an even $700 billion for 2010.
A different "hard choice" that could fix the deficit is to drastically
raise taxes on the very wealthy. To this end, Obama has made the
wholly-inadequate pledge to "roll back the Bush tax cuts." Taxing the
super-rich an extra 4 percent isn't going to do the trick; not even close.
At bare minimum, their taxes should be raised an additional 35 percent, to
the pre-Regan level. But Obama would never propose such an idea.
The solutions Obama has proposed are the ones that Geithner is
actually referring to when he says "very hard choices." Last January, Obama
told the conservative Washington Post that, to lower deficits, he would
"reform entitlement programs" - social security, Medicare, etc. Reform in
this case means to eliminate, or drastically reduce. The Washington Post
reports:
Continues:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15964
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Rumsfeld 2.3 Trillion Dollars missing Pentagon 1 DAY b4/9-11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kpWqdPMjmo
Murtha Moran and the Pentagon's Missing $2.3 TRillion
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TopCrime/message/1741
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Obama's Defense Department appointees - The $3.4 Trillion Dollar Question
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12291
related:
http://www.rense.com/general82/exxp.htm
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National Emergency: Economic Coup in the USA (Video/Audio)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AccountabilityParty/message/81
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U.S National Debt - video
The Senate Budget Committee held a hearing on a hearing on bipartisan
process proposals for long-term fiscal stability.
video:
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/id/215187
We Need A Tobin Tax
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TakeOurMoneyBack/message/221
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Why: War in Iraq and Afghanistan
Both wars were planned long before 9/11
October 10, 2009
The New American Century
http://rainbowwarrior2005.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/why-war-in-iraq-and-afghanistan/
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Taliban Getting U.S. Troops Hooked On Heroin (VIDEO & AUDIO)
http://airamerica.com/liveinwashingtonwithjackrice/blog/10-20-2009/taliban-using-heroin-weapon-video-audio/
C.I.A. Complicit In 90% Of The Heroin Trade Around The World (AUDIO)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GovernmentShadow/message/33324
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarOnError/message/1302
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The Politics of Heroin at Fox News -
Rupert Murdoch, the CIA, Shackley, Nugan Hand Bank & Crimes of Patriots
http://aconstantineblacklist.blogspot.com/2009/11/politics-of-heroin-at-fox-news-rupert.html
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TopCrime/message/2521
War = Tyranny
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarOnError/message/1292
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