Monday, May 29, 2017

Opposing Trump's Insane Budget and Agenda

YOU CANNOT simultaneously preserve peace and prepare for war. Einstein said something like this, and it makes perfect sense, with just a little thought. However, that is exactly what we are doing, and what we, humanity, has always done. It should be no wonder that there has never been still isn't any real lasting peace. Trump's budget calls for a ten percent increase in American military spending, at a time when the American military is already ridiculously strong, with incredible bloated level of money pumped into it, More money that the next ten military powers in the world combined. We simply do not need this much military. We are safe, safer than we seem to think. Our paranoia is largely a result of corporate government military industrial complex propaganda. We could cut spending on the American military by half, and still be amply strong. We'd have seven aircraft carriers, for instance, instead of fourteen. Do you think we could somehow survive with that number? If you don't, you aren't thinking clearly. The American military hasn't been used for defensive purposes for a very, very long time. The American military is purely an offensive force, designed and intended to extend American economic and political power all over the world, by extending military power. In some ways, it works magnificently. The U.S. has military bases all over the world, starts or enters any war it pleases, has extended American corporate profit making worldwide, and has supported our corporations while they rape the rest of the world, stealing their natural resources in places from Latin America and Africa. The American military is used for far more than merely defending America from enemies and would be invaders, or keeping America safe, as we are dishonestly told. Home grown American terrorism is a far greater threat than any foreign entity. We need to defend ourselves against right wing hateful extremists. much more than Islamic foreigners. The Timothy McVeighs and Dylan Roofs of our sweet lovable country are the real threat, not some imaginary horde of Islamic killers who hate America, inexplicably. America's greatest enemies are within, not without. They are extreme corporate greed and criminality, and white supremacist style hatred of racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities. Trumps' budget is an evil plan which transfers great wealth to the already wealthy, reduces greatly assistance to the poor and defenseless, obliterates beneficial social programs while turning America into even more of a monstrously militarized national security state and harsh police state. You cannot maintain good health and simultaneously maintain a a self destructive, unhealthy lifestyle. That is just common, Einsteinian sense. Even more sensible would be the complete destruction of the insane Trump right wing agenda which currently so tragically afflicts perhaps one third of we the American people. We must try.

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