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Fire Walk With Me

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11. The military industrial complex is part of "the man behind the curtain" problem we face.

Reply to JDPriestly (Original post)

Fri Dec 21, 2012, 02:11 PM

Dec 2012

Some 52% of our tax dollars go to it. When you consider the mad profiteering done in Iraq (see "Fahrenheit 9/11" for a segment on just this) it begins to make sense. The endless war budget is a cash cow, an endless feeding trough at the citizens expense. Make it stop!

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CUT THE MILITARY NOT THE CIVILIAN SIDE OF THE ECONOMY. [View all] JDPriestly Dec 2012 OP

Hear, hear! +1 eom Purveyor Dec 2012 #1

Thanks for your post. We need to get back to our values. JDPriestly Dec 2012 #2

The MIC is our government. L0oniX Dec 2012 #3

I agree that we may have been conned.... dmosh42 Dec 2012 #4

We were conned. JDPriestly Dec 2012 #6

Thank you for that list. woo me with science Dec 2012 #8

K&R forestpath Dec 2012 #5

Hear, hear! We need more discussion like THIS! woo me with science Dec 2012 #7

Absolutely. treestar Dec 2012 #9

K&R and Thank YOU! smirkymonkey Dec 2012 #10

The military industrial complex is part of "the man behind the curtain" problem we face. Fire Walk With Me Dec 2012 #11

There's no way the U.S. can continue to exert global hegemony in the wake of large indepat Dec 2012 #12

the untouchables. spanone Dec 2012 #13

(Military) Base Alignment in Europe has been going on for a while now. unhappycamper Dec 2012 #14