So you thought the Pentagon was already big enough? Well, what do you know, especially with the price of the American military slated to grow by at least 25% over the next decade?
Forget about the butter. It's bad for you anyway. And sheer military power, as well as the money behind it, assures the country of a thick waistline without the cholesterol. So, let's sing the praises of perpetual war. We better, since right now every forecast in sight tells us that it's our future.
I like to remind folks that we spend as much on our military as all
the rest of the world’s countries combined. But to be precise, our
exact percentage of spending, according to the Center for Arms Control
and Non-Proliferation, is only 48 percent of the world’s global
expenditure on the military. I’d like to point out that that’s an awful
lot of money.
I wanted to be a fighter pilot when I was in sixth grade. Fresh off my first viewing of Top Gun,
I decided to serve my country by learning to fly an F-14. Fifteen years
later, I'm a civilian with no flight experience whatsoever. This is
hardly surprising. Childhood dreams don't always become adulthood
realities.
Whether Barack Obama or John McCain wins the election,
war profiteer and military contractor General Dynamics will be well
represented in the next administration. That was one of the messages
from a group of peace economy activists speaking at radical bookshop in
Montpelier, Vermont on Monday; John McCain has a General Dynamics
lobbyist, Rob Chamberlin, working for his campaign. And that "voice for
change" Barack Obama? According to the NY Times, James S. Crown, a
board member of General Dynamics, is on Obama's national finance
committee.
