Originally published at http://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/12/18/us-needs-covid-relief-and-renewable-energy-not-space-force
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The āwarā budget has for some time been a large pipeline of money flow from the treasury to weapons manufactures, with very little of it flowing to troops on the ground, and never decreases, no matter the military position around the world. The new Space Force is yet another way to increase the size of that pipeline.
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āThe war budget never decreasesā ?
Congress has serially approved war budgets HIGHER than what the Pentagon requests, all with zero discussion, making the worldās biggest corporate welfare program bigger with each passing year.
Meanwhile, ādomestic programsā (programs benefiting the 99%) are endlessly discussed and debated in Congress before they land in the dustbin of history.
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So even as the USA builds its āspace forceā they condemned Russia for launching what they called āa killer satelliteā as an act of unwarranted aggression.
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The Pentagon and the arms makers realized long ago how to make this happen. Distribute the jobs across a multiple of US States. Any Senator or Congress person who would vote against increased spending becomes a ājob killerā. Even Bernie Sanders voted for more spending on the F 35 because some of it was built in Vermont.
This the same way Big Oil used the Government of Alberta, pillaging and polluting that province , demanding ever lower taxes and Royalties, and indicating if they do not get what they want they will stop investing.
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Iām all for the covidiotās idiotic āspace forceā ā¦ as long as he is the first one deposited on Mars to see how life-friendly it is.
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Yeppers ā excellent example of the pot calling the kettle black!
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But itās not a job he can tackle alone. To make a successful flight and landing, he needs a stalwart crew. McConnell seems a good bet, along with Pelosi and Feinstien for ābalance.ā There are many other names of those who can provide needed services, Keeping the toilets clean, and pumping out the waste bins, etcā¦ There is a huge list of government employees and electees that are desperately needed to man (and woman) that ship. Hell, we might have to build a whole fleet, but it might be worth it to get these drones to another lifeless, oxygen-less planet, to make it work. Something they now get for ineffective efforts to assuage our ills. That would be about the first tax I could agree upon. It would be for public benefit, and could act as an insecticide to cure the infestation of DC.
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OUTSTANDING COMMENT!!! Oops sorry, your comment made such perfect sense I couldnāt help shouting it from the rooftops!
In all seriousness, not only the mitchybrat, peloser and not-at-all-fine-stein it is my considered opinion that the space force wouldnāt be complete without katie-barr-the-brat and susan-canāt-do-sh!t collins. And of course you are right ā there are enough DC suckers that nothing less than an entire fleet of drone-carriers would be necessary!
Now ā have a glorious Christmas and stay safe.
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Thanks Wolfess! You, too!
OOOUUURRRRRRRR!!
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It is a glorious thing indeed to start the day to the āsoundā of a howling wolf!