Keep Bombing, Our Economy Depends On It

I remember discussing with my co-workers, in 2006, walking on our way to lunch, about how I thought that we'd never once been asked to sacrifice for the wars going on, not once asked to buy a war bond, pay more taxes, conserve rubber, what have you. Nothing. Except, maybe, go buy a car.

I know what you're thinking.

You're thinking, how can you walk to lunch as an office worker? Aren't your cubicles buried in the bowels of a blank building in an office "park" surrounded by other blank buildings and twelve acres of vehicle parking? Doesn't it take you forty five minutes to walk to the "retail plaza" because it's forbidden to mix the two together? How do you have enough time to eat?

Good questions, for sure.

But no, I was discussing with my co-workers the cost of our wars, and I queried how we'd pay for them. But you know what? Those costs are pocket change relative to the massive, massive deficit spending we're about to incur with all these bailouts. The wars, they don't cost shit, relative to everything domestic we're blowing our wads on.

There's no reason we shouldn't just keep our 160,000 soldiers overseas permanently. Jesus Christ, if we brought them home they'd just suck off the public teat for the next few decades because we don't have any jobs for them here. Better for them to continue to bomb brown people because they stay employed, their families are taken care of, tens of thousands stay employed in ordinance manufacturing, deploying, and disposal, arms companies are arming, security firms are securing, on and on and on. The cost of operating in Afghanistan is nothing compared to the cost of bailing Goldman Sachs. In Afghanistan, all we have to do is spend a few million training soldiers to kill (who want to, by the way), spend another coupla million on various aircraft and ordinance, and bam! We have GDP. Goldman et al are gonna suck up five times what poorly paid E-3's and E-5's are gonna suck up.

We could bomb five new nations and feel good about it for what we paid to keep our banks alive and feel like shit about it.

Bombing is a bright spot in our wretched economy. You keep hearing about X thousand jobs cut from here, Y thousand jobs cut from there, and Z thousand jobs cut here and there...Home Depot, Starbucks, Boeing, Caterpillar, Warner Bros., Pfizer...but tell me...have you heard of Colt Firearms laying off workers? Rathyeon? General Atomics? Lockheed-Martin? Northrup-Grumman?

Actually, I'm a little bit surprised Caterpillar is laying off workers. Apparently the Israelis aren't bulldozing enough Palestinian homes with their marquee D9 model.


Maybe if they did, more American assemblers could keep their jobs. Chalk it up to the bad global economy; yeah, that's it. Israel is suffering too you know, along with China and Japan. Just can't export their products like they used to.

Remember...never confuse me with someone who gives a shit. Don't confuse me with those who cling to hope. I take great pleasure blogging about how things are...not how they should be.