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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">NKP guy,</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">The military used to be the prime example of gold plated government spending, but that is “old hat” compared to this current era of bailouts and stimulus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the president signed the first economic stimulus bill, he spent more money than the entire cost of the Iraq War to that point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We live in a new age where politicians believe that spending is the way to get us out of debt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have just told us that unemployment benefits are a good way to grow the economy because every one-dollar turns into two dollars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But if we can make something out of nothing like that, then nobody should be lacking for money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are living in an economic dream world as a way to rationalize the insatiable greed of the governing class.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Until now, $2-trillion of the tarp bailout was listed, but not accounted for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few days ago, it was accounted for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The money went to prop up foreign banks, and to a lot of places that nobody can justify.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example, they gave $18-billion to G.E.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So you have the fed chairman Bernanke, without the consent of congress, without asking the American people, spending $2-trillion without even a clear explanation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That amount of money is <span style="text-decoration: underline;">more than the entire annual U.S. budget</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For $2-trillion, we could have built infrastructure to the moon and back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">So the problem is not military spending alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The problem is that spending is the fuel that runs the ruling class, and makes it grow ever larger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If society is not constantly critical of that tendency, the spenders will take it all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately too much of society is preoccupied with dance contests to notice what is happening to them.</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span> </span></span></p>
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