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Well... Lets talk about the book. Since this clearly relates to money.
What industry gets the biggest amount of Tax Dollars? Oh that would be the defense industry with a whopping 40%-50% domestic spending.
Lets ad the political angle.
This book brandishing military theory of dooms day sell's well to people and its not the price of the book, its the idea of our demise. How do you make people believe that Military spending at 50% of our budget is an absolute necessity?
Do not get me wrong but America spends a fuck ton on defense, more so by far than any other country or even countries in the world combined.
As a people we got trade off's... In political reasoning is...
Lets cut education and these so called "Entitlement programs" before even considering cutting defense spending. The argument holds no water. Dumb people believe the book, dumb people say, "Oh lets not cut defense spending I do not mind poor people living in boxes starving or my kid getting a fucked education I rather have dumb kids than armagedon!"
Politicians and military official prey on our fears. This book is nothing more than a special interest of the military spending machine.
But lets get back to the book...
This man held the book up in congress protesting something must be done and there is no question if but when. How great is that?
Judge for yourself the real motive. Fact is if North Korea wanted to do something like that I suppose they could try but the end game is the end of that nation regardless of succeeding in its funny EMP prank.
So again... The book is propaganda to instill fear.
My point of view is America needs to cut defense spending and put the money towards better education and even welfare programs and internal construction. I am not for giving tax breaks to wealthy while cutting off medicare and social security or even privatizing in any manor while lowering standards of education for the sake of even more defense spending.
We got plenty of military toys well ahead of any other country in the world and it will remain so even if our domestic spending to the military was cut to 20%, which is a sober amount of spending in itself vs 40%-50% which is completely insane and over kill and over spending.
Its part of a larger game at play and the name of the game is how dumb is the American Citizen? Can we keep spending money on stupid shit and line the pockets of conservative warmongers at the expense of stupid generations ahead and more card board boxes for the homeless and unemployed?
Chop even 10% of defense spending and we can erase the national debt in record time.
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