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Warning: Over Half of Every Tax Dollar You Give to Uncle Sam is Spent on This (Video)
As divided as the United States has become during recent times, when every American seems to be a member of one hyphenated subgroup or another with differing ideas on how to do everything from running the government to using the restrooms, there is one thing virtually every American can agree on: We have reached critical mass on our accumulated debt, and we cannot continue on our current course. What no one is able to agrees on however, is how best to tackle the situation.
If we look at the the situation straight down party lines, conservatives traditionally want to make cuts or changes to entitlement programs while leaving national defense untouched and strong, while liberals traditionally want to make cuts or changes to national defense while leaving entitlement programs untouched and strong. The article below from The Mind Unleashed clearly comes at the issue of defense spending from a more liberal leaning perspective, something I’m generally not inclined to entertain, but the country is at a point where the pink elephant in the room has GOT to be discussed.
As it stands today, the U.S. outpaces all other nations in military expenditures by an enormous margin. World military spending totaled more than $1.6 trillion in 2015. The U.S. accounted for 37 percent of the total. The U.S. military expenditures are roughly the size of the next seven largest military budgets around the world, combined.
Regardless of any individual’s personal thoughts on the issue, one thing CANNOT be argued, and that is that we were warned this day would come and these arguments would be taking place as far back as January 17, 1961 in President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farewell address. President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farewell address is well-known for its warnings about the growing power of the “military-industrial complex.” The speech was nearly two years in the making, and the video below follows newly discovered papers revealing that Eisenhower was deeply involved in crafting the speech, which was to become one of the most famous in American history.
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What is lost on so many people, is that President Dwight D. Eisenhower was no prude to the military, like perhaps Barak Obama is today. Eisenhower was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe. When the President of the United States has a background like that, and warned of a dangerous and overpowering “military-industrial complex,” we should have listened.
Most people probably don’t think too much about this, but are you aware of just how much of your income is being used to fuel the military industrial complex?
Conveniently omitted from the corporate/state-run media organizations is the fact that some 53 percent of your tax dollars are spent on the military. That’s right, more than half of the money you give to Uncle Sam for the privilege of being American income is spent directly on military.
In 2011 the budget for the US Government was over 3 trillion dollars, while military spending included a $717 billion request from the pentagon, $200 billion towards “overseas contingency funding” for the two major conflicts we are engaged in, and $40 billion in black budget intelligence which includes the CIA, NSA, and other agencies where the amount of money given is never fully disclosed.
In addition, $94 billion was spent on non-DOD military operations, $100 billion on health care and veterans benefits, and $400 billion was spent paying off the interest on debt raised to pay for past wars. This all adds up to over 1.6 trillion dollars spent on so-called defense. That is more than what was spent during the second world war after being adjusted for inflation.
Defense Spending Or Offense Spending?
Now it is true that defense spending is important to American interests. You might be inclined to think about how much worse off we would be without a military. Without a strong defense, if a country decided to engage us in any sort of negative way militarily we wouldn’t be able to resist or hold our ground.
However, what is typically called “defense spending” is by-and-large nothing offense spending designed to support a policy of military interventionism which exploits many nations for their natural resources and establishes Rothschild controlled central banks wherever and whenever they can.
To see this, one needs not look beyond the excuses for going to war in the first place. From the Gulf of Tonkin incident of August 1964, to the supposed WMD’s in Iraq, to Obama’s attempt in the summer of 2013 to begin bombing campaigns in Syria, nearly each and every war is initiated alongside war propaganda intended to serve the special interests who profit from the lucrative military-industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us about in his farewell address of 1961.
Why would they need to continuously lie to get us into war if there was a plausible reason for “defending ourselves” in the first place?
Drone Bombings Are America’s Slap In The Face To The World
When you take the immediate danger of American soldiers out of the equation, and in some cases any human input at all, it creates a situation where the public generally doesn’t see any problem with bombing the living daylights out of another country because it is out of sight, out of mind. For this reason, the drone program has become one of the military’s most insidious operations in history.
To put the drone program into perspective you have to understand its scale and its ability to remain covert. During the Obama presidency alone, the US has bombed a total of eight countries. Syria, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, Uganda, and Pakistan. Also, Obama became the worlds first Nobel Peace Prize winner to bomb another Nobel Peace Prize winner when he authorized a strike on a Afghan hospital run by the 1999 Peace Prize recipient Doctors Without Borders, killing at least 22 people. And somehow, bombs somehow keep on falling in places where Obama boasts that he hast ended two wars.
A recent whistle blower exposed the fact that about 90 percent of those killed in drone strikes are not the intended targets. Yes, you heard that right. For every ten people killed by American drones, nine are innocent bystanders, some of which are merely patients in a hospital suspected of harboring terrorists.
“What is war but mass murder on a scale impossible by private police forces?” – Austrian economist Murray Rothbard
This Money Could Be Spent Fixing Our Country, Or Better Yet Not Stolen From Us
In 2014 one fighter jet ended up costing the US $400 billion dollars. That amount of money could have payed for every homeless person in America to have a house worth $600,000. Imagine what that kind of money could have done if it were spent on humanitarian efforts, or better yet, if left in the hands of hardworking Americans who are supporting the economy through their free market decisions.
At the end of the day, we are all cash-cows for Uncle Sam and his globalist military industrial complex.
This short video puts it all nicely into perspective:
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As I mentioned previously, there is no doubt that The Mind Unleashed’s article comes at the issue from a liberal perspective, but to deny it makes valid points, would only be sound as foolish as liberals themselves. Anyone who wants to continue the debate about which came first, the defense spending, or the need for continued defense spending because of defense spending, go right ahead. It seems like a mindless exercise at this point. To quote Hillary Clinton,
“At this point, what difference does it make?”
If we hadn’t injected ourselves in so many conflicts around the world, perhaps the U.S. wouldn’t have as many enemies as we do, or have the need to spend as much on defense as we do, but the simple reality is we DO have enemies all over the world, and they won’t cease being our enemy simply because we stop spending on defense. Cutting defense spending the way Obama has done has been grossly negligent, and has left the U.S. very vulnerable to military aggression by our enemies.
So what’s the solution? We’re right back where we started. Do we cut entitlements or defense spending, because one thing is certain: If we stay on our current course, our goose is cooked regardless. America has very troubling times ahead.
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