Air Force Awards New Bloated Tanker Project While Americans Rot - We The People Are The Enemy Of The War State

There is no money for teachers.  There is no money for Social Security.  There is no money for health care.  There is no money for emergency medical technicians.  There is no money for unemployment benefits.  There is no money for heating assistance for the elderly.   There is no money for homeowners.  There is no money to create jobs.  There is just no money, period.

That is, unless you are the war state.  Then there is endless money.   The military budget spread across all agencies of the government is arguably $1 trillion.  (Department of Energy which houses the budget for the nuclear arsenal, the Defense Department, the State Department, Homeland Security, the CIA, the NSA, Wall Street banksters, and countless other agencies.)   The rest of the world’s military budget combined?  Less than half of that.   

The Air Force gets a new tanker plane for $35 billion dollars and the American people get a boot in the ass.   Yeah, yeah.  This creates jobs.  Jobs funded by taxpayers at an astronomical cost to society both in dollar terms and ultimately through the perpetuation of the war state and the military-industrial complex.  None of this is about defending our country.  It’s about corporate power and projecting hegemony that results in endless loss of life, fraud, infringements on democracy, loss of economic opportunity, propping up American puppets and blowback better known as karma. 

We already have the two largest air forces in the world.  The active air force and then an even larger air force  of unused planes sitting in the desert….rotting.  (See pictures below)    Proponents of the war state would tell us that these 5,000 planes are used as parts.   True.  Partly.  But what is also true is that there are a LOT of current generation planes sitting under shrink wrap that can be brought back into active duty quickly. 

This is an example of the war state’s directed overproduction for the benefit of of the state, its power, its greed and for the benefit of socialist welfare corporations minting untold profits through this endless overproduction.  (The same dynamic of overproduction in the industrial food monopoly)  We need more airplanes at this time like we need a hole in the head.  What we need is more butter.  Less guns, more butter.  But the war state cares not about poverty, corruption, fraud, democracy or economic opportunity for its citizens.  It cares about control and power. 

It’s time to repeal the National Security Act, dismantle the CIA and end the war state that has resulted from it.