The Mountain Oracle is intended to be a space for the publication of my personal and radical views. As an activist, my views are intended to make you feel discomfort with the status quo if you don't already.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
This is the Way We Support Our Troops
This is how we support our troops. First we justify an economic system in which millions of our citizens are unable to participate. This encourages, in essence, a "poverty draft." Then we engage in wars for which we do not raise revenue. We are told instead by George Bush following the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, "Go shopping." Since the wars are not being funded, the solution is to slash domestic spending. Finally we foreclose on our troops when they are fighting in our illegal wars. And ... when they get home we cut programs even more that would have enabled them to have jobs and reintegratee into our community. Oops! Looks like the magnets holding the "Support our Troops" emblems are losing their grip.
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