How to sink America
Debt Is Sinking America
Chalmers Johnson on military Keynesianism and other evils.
The military adventurers of the Bush administration have much in common with the corporate leaders of the defunct energy company Enron. Both groups of men thought that they were the ’smartest guys in the room,’ the title of Alex Gibney’s prize-winning film on what went wrong at Enron. The neoconservatives in the White House and the Pentagon outsmarted themselves. They failed even to address the problem of how to finance their schemes of imperialist wars and global domination. As a result, going into 2008, the United States finds itself in the anomalous position of being unable to pay for its own elevated living standards or its wasteful, overly large military establishment. Its government no longer even attempts to reduce the ruinous expenses of maintaining huge standing armies, replacing the equipment that seven years of wars have destroyed or worn out, or preparing for a war in outer space against unknown adversaries. Instead, the Bush administration puts off these costs for future generations to pay — or repudiate...
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Chalmers Johnson on military Keynesianism and other evils.
The military adventurers of the Bush administration have much in common with the corporate leaders of the defunct energy company Enron. Both groups of men thought that they were the ’smartest guys in the room,’ the title of Alex Gibney’s prize-winning film on what went wrong at Enron. The neoconservatives in the White House and the Pentagon outsmarted themselves. They failed even to address the problem of how to finance their schemes of imperialist wars and global domination. As a result, going into 2008, the United States finds itself in the anomalous position of being unable to pay for its own elevated living standards or its wasteful, overly large military establishment. Its government no longer even attempts to reduce the ruinous expenses of maintaining huge standing armies, replacing the equipment that seven years of wars have destroyed or worn out, or preparing for a war in outer space against unknown adversaries. Instead, the Bush administration puts off these costs for future generations to pay — or repudiate...
http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt312.html
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Keynesianism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Enron
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Engelhardt
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/engelhardt
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chalmers+Johnson
rudkla - 23. Jan, 08:27
