Strong National Defense for the American Dream

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2 responses to “Strong National Defense for the American Dream”

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   Charles D

   2010-01-16

   The first thing we have to do is realize that National Defense does not require “strategic strike forces rapidly deployed…to respond to the national security interests of the United States”. In fact, the so-called national security interest is little more than a cover for military adventurism overseas. The American people are here in America. America is the 50 states. Defending our people and our land does not require military strikes, invasions and occupations of foreign nations. In fact such actions are detrimental to our national security. That said, there will not be a reduction of any significance in the military budget regardless of which party is in power because too many powerful corporations are making too much money sucking at the Pentagon teat and they are not about to allow their servants in Washington to cut into their profit.

   Securing our borders is another phony issue. The reason people come here across the border (and we are only talking about the Mexican border here – the one where the brown people come from) is to find employment so they can feed their families. If the government enforced the law on employers rather than workers, that would be over in a heartbeat. If a company can hire hundreds of undocumented workers and pay them below minimum wage then a fine of a few thousand is not going to deter them. When we enact a corporate death penalty that withdraws the charter of corporations that routinely break the law and sells their assets to others, then we will get their attention.

   The “all of the above” energy policy means little more than a continued giveaway to the big oil, gas and coal companies coupled with handing the government responsibility to insure nuclear power stations so they can afford to operate. It is TARP on steroids. Meanwhile China, Japan and Europe are busy developing alternative energy sources with government subsidy and when our oil runs out, we will have to buy everything from them because we will not have an industry. This is the worst possible plan for America’s future, so it’s the most likely of these ideas to actually be enacted.

   I have no problem with sustaining basic rights although I’d be much more likely to take conservatives seriously if they defending the other amendments of the Bill of Rights with the same zeal as they defend #2.

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      David

      2010-01-18

      I agree that what politicians describe as national security interest is rarely anything but a cover for military adventurism overseas. We must continue to repeat that fact so that more people will begin to rethink their values despite the fact that no current party will actually push for a reduction in military spending.

      As for the issue of securing our border – I think there is a real issue at the core there even if it is often used as a cover for the phony or racist issue of trying to keep “the brown people” out of the country. I’m not sure how to separate the real issue from the phony one, but I am sure that the phony one is not all there is to the issue.

      Finally, I agree that too many self-described conservatives do nothing to defend any but the second amendment but if you look carefully you will find real conservatives who defend our other basic rights as well (and as vigorously) as they do the second amendment.

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