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popeye1250 -> RE: A Nation of Perpetual War? (7/11/2010 11:44:40 AM)
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Vincent, yeah, look at S. Korea, we've had a substantial Troop presence there for close to 60 years now!
When are they (we) going to bring those Troops home? And there's no reason to have Troops in 135 countries!
That's tremendously expensive!
The U.S. Taxpayer is footing the bill for the protection of foreign countries and has been for a long time! How are we supposed to be "competitive" with a "nut" like that? The answer is, we can't.
NATO should have been dissolved right after the old Soviet Union collapsed. We're getting the same thing there that we're getting with the "U.N.", tens of thousands of* highly paid* buearocrats sitting in offices sharpening pencils and comming up with new "titles" for themselves! "The assistant (low) commissioner of blankety blank resources, minerals, logistics, manpower, and land forces (but not naval forces) to the (medium) (higher) commissioner and liason to the (highest) blankety blank commissioner (excluding the lesser Antilles). And there's ((tens of thousands of them)) like that! There's probably 50-60 buearocrats for every (one) soldier.
That's the shit we're paying for! Does anyone know how much being in NATO costs the U.S. each year?
Yahoo did an article about a month ago about the 1,700 people in the Dept of Transportation who were making "in excess of $170 k per year."
And people say there's no room for cuts in the federal govt? Does anyone even (know) how many people are in the State Dept? (They) have people in 195 or so countries that we don't need to be doing.
And when you ask congressmen and senators why we still have Troops in S. Korea they say we have "interests" there. Oh really? I don't know one person who has any "interests" in S. Korea. But now we hear that Bush 3 wants to have "free trade" with S. Korea and,....."Colombia."
More jobs going overseas for sure! And a lot more drugs comming into the U.S. from Colombia!
And yes, I think you're right, the U.S. has been involved in interventionist policies and that needs to stop.
And we have interventionists on the left and on the right. One group wants to kill 'em the other group wants to feed 'em! I don't want to do either.
I think the main problem is that there are too many people and cos. and orgs. behind the scenes making too much money off of all this!
Just look at the proliferation of "Lobbyists" in Washington in the last ten years!
A third world country will hire a "lobbying" firm (on a "contingiency basis) and whatever they can get out of our congress the lobbying firm gets 20%!!!
It's no wonder that congressmen and senators all want to be "lobbyists!"
Gula Gula land gets $500 m of the Taxpayer's dollars and "Frisbee, Schmuck, and Armey" get a cool $100 m out of that! But,..... that's not "corruption!"
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