So how do you ensure that Congress will keep on raising the defense and homeland security budgets? You find threats. Remember the Cold War? It was a credible threat, and the budget for countering that threat was high and never questioned Then the Soviet Union fell, and Congress started talking about cutting the defense budget. Bush the elder had installed old Saddam in Iraq while head of the CIA, and he called Saddam to return the favor. Within a few weeks of the news of the defense budget cut initiative, Saddam invaded Kuwait, and there was a credible threat again. The defense budget stayed high.

Bill Clinton had focused on the economy and towards the end of his presidency, the shares of the defense industry were at an all-time low. Bush the younger was installed as President with regards from neo-con think tanks to provide a new Pearl Harbor. Soon the old business associates of the Bush family, the Bin Laden family, provided just that on 9-11-01. The defense budget skyrocketed and the shares of the defense industry followed suit. Need I add that the Bush family is well invested in defense? That Dick Cheney’s Halliburton started getting no-bid contracts by the bucketful? Pretty transparent.

You’d think that Obama would renew the focus on the economy, seeing that somehow, somebody will have to repay the loans Dubya took to make the next generation pay for his looting. But Obama didn’t get elected without the support of big business either; nobody has since Jack Kennedy. (Kennedy got shot the day before he was to sign he order to withdraw from Vietnam.) Obama will have to repay the favors to big business just like his predecessors, and he, too, will have to keep finding threats. Now it’s right-wingers, gun owners, and veterans. Under Bush it was left-wingers and war critics. Under Clinton, it was militias and paramilitary gun-toters. Somebody will always have to carry the can, and the rich will keep getting richer.

Read my free e-book Walkabout: The History of a Brief Century. This stuff is easier to understand when there’s more room to tell the story.

I mind my own business, I don’t bother anybody. I don’t belong to a para military group, but I once did–the U.S. Army.

I do own guns. We hunt up here! I held a FFL for 6 years and I have a concealed carry permit from Florida.

I have been robbed 4 times in my life at gun point, been stabbed, threatened etc. That will never happen again when I am in Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee or Miami. I have learned from experience that even with the cops present, the DA charged the perp for holding a gun on me as a misdemeanor and then they were going to cite me for contempt, because I did not want to show for trial if not pushed as a felony. What is wrong with this picture?

I am angry though about the government spending. Did I go to a tea party? Not yet.

I love my country. I miss my country. I wasn’t extremely happy with Bush either. The republicans have let us down. The Democrats have let us down. Something needs to change here or American and all it had to offer will be done.

For Mr. Davis: We have way too many laws, but where I live in northern, WI no one to enforce them! 3 cops–90 sq miles!

I had property in Delagua, CO and we had no law enforcement there either however; I may be the same distance (10 miles) off a main highway, but now my roads are paved (LOL)

If someone were stupid enough to break into our houses, can’t really say they are getting help from law enforcement. Possibly the Coroner if they are not fed to the bears.

If Texas seceeds from the Union, We would be there in a heart beat. My woman if from Dallas anyway!

I can do fine without guns for protection, but it might be a little loud and messy, but I do not want my 2nd ammendment rights taken away for political expedience.

Rob

CFEI,CVFI, CFATE

That’s all.

But do read my book–I had lots of fun writing it and would love to share some of it!

It has come to the point where [here anyway in Colorado aka Eastern California] there’s a law against everything.

I’m 55 and the U.S. has changed so drastically in the last 30 years for the worst. So many, many rights have been taken away under the disguise as “security” and the younger ones don’t know any better because they’ve grown up believing america is an unsafe, dangerous place fueled by the nightly “news” reports which are, of course, designed to attract as many customers as possible for advertisers.

Many of us think the U.S. is going to hell fast–because it is. Yesterday in my community [Aurora, Colorado] 10 policemen showed up and drew guns on four kids playing with airsoft guns in a backyard….they told the news media the guns looked real [not to me because they were clear plastic with barrels painted red]. They told the parents the kids could be ticketed or hauled to jail. Such paranoia, really–a snapshot of the whole U.S. I’m afraid.