Storms

Over the next few years it seems almost inevitable that the United States will be forced to spend a great deal  of money on infrastructure repair, and cleanup and rebuilding of storm damage.
A great deal of money, its absolutely certain.


And where's that money gonna come from? Incredible economic growth by virtue of enormous tax reductions for the wealthy? Or, are we gonna have to try something else? And remember, we will be simultaneously trying to pay down a fifteen trillion dollar  nationaol debt.  And if we don't make a dent paying down this enormous debt, AND rebuild the infrastructure, we're in big trouble, economically.

Well, the obvious solution is to liquidate the empire, and to invest the peace dividend on the above priorities. By "the empire" I mean America's vast global system of military installations, and her gigantic offensive war machine. The military industrial complex.

Each year the empire becomes more expensive, the national debt grows, and the infrastructure crumbles.

And the storms become more numerous and more severe, with climate change, or at least, so it seems to me. On May 22 of 2011 I  began my three week vacation in my home town Joplin, Missouri, U.S.A. The weather was sticky and windy. About five PM I went for a jog, and as I reached the twenty minute mark the wind bagan to howl and a huge black anvil shaped cloud appeared overhead. My thought was "how nice, a rain cloud. I could use a cool off".

Then the tornado sirens began to sound. I ignored them, and kept running, wanting badly to reach thirty minutes. Suddenly a golf ball landed at my feet, and I thought "terrible shot, nowhere near the course". Then another landed at my feet, and I realized they were ice balls.

I decided to curtail my run at twenty five minutes, and headed for a storm shelter. When I emerged, my hometown Joplin was in ruins, a field of rubble, hit by the biggest tornado in the history of the entire universe, so far as I know.

Walking among the rubble, I thought: "how much of this is going to happen in the furure?" The answer I arrived at frightened me.