Paying the bills: Not giving our government credit for all that it spends
My go-phone just died. "Maybe you forgot to charge it?" asked a
friend. No. I just forgot to pay my freaking phone bill at the first of the
month.
If you don't pay your bills, you get cut off. Everyone knows that.
It's the law. Literally. And this law not only just applies to
ordinary people like you and me, it also applies to our government as
well. Duh.
And the first of the month is once again starting to roll around for
you and for me -- and also for the United States of America too.
Who is going to foot the bill for all those thousands of ICE raids that we hear so much about on TV?
Who is going to write out that big check for America's half-baked and
squalid "war on terror" and all those other phony, invented (and
totally pricey) other "wars" that Washington delights in? http://thesaker.is/saker-book-review-pokemon-in-ukraine-tactical-war-game-introduction-manual/
Who will keep the lights on in our expensive and elaborate prison system?
Who is going to have to tighten their belts in order to pay for the Border Wall? https://www.unz.com/article/the-border-fetish/
Who will have to bite the bullet financially in order to pay for the
Afghanistan fiasco? Israel's sick apartheid regime? All those cute
(and very expensive) little acronyms for oppressive operations abroad such as the
CIA, AFRICOM, NATO, FUK-US, SOUTHCOM, PACOM, US-AID and SOCOM? And also
for all those cute (and very expensive) little acronyms for oppressive operations
here at home such as the NSA, SWAT, DEA, DHS, SEC, ATF and FDA? https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB216/app1.pdf
Who will be stuck with trying to pay all these bills when the first of
the month finally rolls around for the USA as well as for us? It will
be you and me that will be stuck with trying to fend off the repo man
after America goes bankrupt. https://patch.com/california/lajolla/californias-largest-employer
America is not spending its money wisely. And who the hell do you think is going to get stiffed for the tab?
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| That's my pop, off to war |
PS:
A border Wall and an ICE machine have only proved to be wasteful and
stop-gap solutions to a very real problem. It's time to do the math
correctly for a change. Immigrants come up here from Latin America
because their lives down there have been made a living hell. So. If
you don't want them to come here, stop screwing up their lives down
there. Boom. End of problem. They'd probably rather stay down there
anyway, given a choice.
PPS:
While recently re-reading my (most excellent) book recounting my experiences as
an embedded journalist during the "war" on Iraq, I was (sort of)
surprised to see Mike Pence's name jump out on the page. Back in 2007,
he and John McCain held a press conference in the Green Zone that I had
attended, wherein Pence happily offered us poor benighted reporters an
inside glimpse on how to be a truly shady war hawk. http://jpstillwater.blogspot.com/2007/04/letters-from-iraq-me-light-brigade-john.html
Who knew back in 2007 that this war-drum-pounding little piece of shite
would someday become America's vice-president and even help us spend
approximately ten billion dollars in just one night on the illegal and
criminal bombing of Syria. Guess Pence just couldn't get enough of
Shock and Awe -- and was willing to tell the exact same lies to see it
all happen again.
Still and all, ten billion dollars woulda gone a hecka long way toward paying off my go-phone bill.
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