On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:54:20 -0800, ltlee1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> Another aspect of US militarism.
>
> "By 1990, the value of the weapons, equipment, and factories devoted
> to the Department of Defense was 83% of the value of all plants and
> equipment in American manufacturing."
>
> ( http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt312.html
)
>
> But of course, spending on gun cannot provide the butter.
The above is misleading about, and I suspect that you are consequently
misled in your view of, American industry by regarding the "value" as
opposed to number of plants etc.
The "value" of weapons etc. is always _grossly_ inflated by the American
"defense industry" in connivance with the American Department of Defense .
. . .
> Factories devoting to the development of weapons cannot produce
> consumer goods to satisfy Americans' needs.
We had and have no problem producing consumer goods; the movement of
American production intended for American use to China was to maximize
"profit" by exploiting cheap Chinese slave-labor-- try to get some labor
and labor, consumer and environmental safety laws passed and enforced in
China, if you think the Chinese are free-- and to mount an unconventional
offensive, an economic attack, on American working-people, the majority of
Americans, by the Chinese "Communist" ("New Class") regime and the
American (cor****ate) plutocracy, while the American military and American
counterintelligence are silenced by the money involved.
Incidentally, and to make things clear here, I'm not holding America up as
a ****ning model here in comparison to China, although in many respects it
is, so far, still, because we have degenerated in the United States over
the last quarter-century or so into an all-but-nominal democracy and an
all-but-overt (cor****ate) plutocracy . . . .
--
Conservatism = plutocracy + theocracy + hypocrisy
Liberalism = plutocracy + psychosociocracy + hypocrisy
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