Comments on: Panetta: Defense cuts will increase unemployment http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/42021 The oldest political news site on the Internet Sat, 25 May 2013 18:56:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: FredW http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/42021/comment-page-1#comment-174445 FredW Mon, 19 Sep 2011 05:28:28 +0000 http://www.capitolhillblue.com/?p=42021#comment-174445 This is a despicable statement. There may be good reasons not to cut defense spending, but using jobs as an argument is indefensible. The worst thing about Bush was that he labeled everything “National Security” and, after he screwed up the economy, “Stimulus” even if it wasn’t. It was a way of using fear to shove unpalatable crap down our throats instead of really solving the problems. The worst thing about Obama is that he does the exact same thing; everyting is “stimulus”, even if it really isn’t. To make us fear pentagon cuts as a jobs issue is just plain immoral. Perhaps, Mr Panetta, we should open wars on a few more fronts until we reach full employment or until the unemployed are all dead.

]]> By: Carl Nemo **== http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/42021/comment-page-1#comment-174358 Carl Nemo **== Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:52:43 +0000 http://www.capitolhillblue.com/?p=42021#comment-174358 This is what happens when a nation turns the very waging of war into a ‘business opportunity’ as in the case of the MIC.

It’s truly Orwellian in that we must wage perpetual “no win” engineered wars to maintain full employment into perpetuity, ferreting out ‘terrorists’ everywhere and anywhere worldwide, seemingly until the end of civlization as we know it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airstrip_One#Airstrip_One

Have any of them thought of ways to turn our talents for destruction into the greening of America without giving away our money to the Chinese in order for them to become the premier manufacturer of wind and solar generating equipment. We have an electrical grid that needs updating nationwide, bridges, roads, water purification systems and waste management that needs serious remediation. There’s plenty of work for all from the scientific and engineering level on down to the folks installing and maintaining domestic infrastructure.

Panetta needs to pull the plug on the offensive nature of our military, engineered to such levels under years of PNAC driven Bushista mismanagement whose family patrons have been the MIC since early part of the 20th century as far back as WWI. All we need is a superb defense posture along with multiple contingents of SOCOM personnel for insertions into faraway places in the event regional destabilization is detected. Satellite surveillance, predator drones and personnel of this caliber are all we need, not hundreds of thousands of grunts and ‘tankheads’ milling about the deserts and mountains the Middle East, Afghansitan, Pakistan, Libya etc. at ruinous cost to the taxpayers. Enough is enough. It’s time to come home and rebuild the homeland from the ground up and to forge the weapons of war into plowshares.

Rest assured we’re safe enough. MAD is still in place with a reasonable contingent of B52H bombers, ICBM’s and our nuclear submarine fleet. No nation on earth can prevail against such in the event they should be so foolish to launch on the U.S. “We the People” will get the last word and shall prevail if such an attack should happen in this final world conflagration. So too, our enemies realize such is the case. : |

Carl Nemo **==

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