B. Kidd
Diamond Member
70 per cent of the U.S. force structure in Iraq and Afghanistan are private contractors.
How To Profit From the War in Afghanistan: Military Contractors
OWS protestors are from IOWA (I'm Out Wandering Around). Their best and most focused talking point should have been an anti-war sentiment. Instead, they are like horseshit point-wise, all over the place. Many an effective domestic policy movement (civil rights, women's rights) rode the coattails of the anti-war movement concerning VietNam.
OWS protestors learned nothing from that counter-culture history and are doomed to just fade-away.
American capitalism is a 'blood-economy'. It takes fellow Americans' blood to grease the wheels of continued corporate war profits, even, in a 'down' economy. (One significant reason why Wall St. is sustaining, while Main St. is failing).
But, instead, OWS protestors are only selfishly concerned about their own future and blood, instead of focusing on what should be the starting point for the real 'meat-of-the matter'.
No -- we're not the "blood economy". We're the country that has footprints on the moon. That wrote the operating systems for the world. That has a machine that can play Jeopardy. That has mapped the Human Genome. That put computers into every home.
THAT'S what our leadership should be stating. We are crying ourselves into dehydration here with this class war nonsense and calls to dismantle the system. And the morons who are in charge can think beyond FDR...
That was then, this is now. And our leadership is not stating what you allude to (except for green energy boondoggles).
Would you like to venture a guess how much higher our unemployment rate would be if we were not involved in endless nation building?