US CREATING ENEMIES TO JUSTIFY DEFENSE SPENDING?

ISIS IS ON THE WAY OUT

THE NEW BOGEY MAN IS RUSSIA

PHONY ANTI RUSSIA AGENDA

COMPARING USA TO LOW-DEFENSE SPENDING GERMANY

The latest stories from the Middle East indicate that ISIS the "terrible threat" of the Obama Presidency is on the way out. The Russians and Assad's Shia forces have extirpated this rag tag "army" of religious fanatics from the western parts of Syria. The Iraqis with the help of the USA are slowly but surely pushing them out of Mosul and the rest of Iraq. No longer can anyone be made to think they are a "fearsome or creditable" threat to the USA. Their fate is sealed. They are now only in the class of generalized "terrorists". They are useless TO SERVE AS EXISTENTIAL ENEMIES for the military-industrial cabal which has so much power in the USA.

Thus we see the need for the rise of a REPLACEMENT ENEMY a new bogeyman. It appears from what we hear every day in Washington that the new -SPECTER TO GENERATE FEAR--and defense spending will be Mr. Putin and the Russians.

The Washington military-industrial establishment needs its enemies. How could they justify the expenditure of more than HALF A TRILLION dollars ($600 billion), or 54 % of our total federal discretionary spending for military and military-related expenditures each year? How could we explain that level of profligacy to the American taxpayers who are apparently no longer threatened from abroad by the latest acronym of terror--ISIS? US taxpayers pay through the nose in the richest nation in the world yet are consigned to live in a nation with third world infrastructure and a life style on the level a little better than Venezuela for all their tax sacrifices.

That vast amount ($600 billion "defense" spending ) is cut out of our $3.2 trillion Federal tax revenues each year. The result of that spending strictly limits what we can and should spend on the necessaries of maintaining a great nation: replacement and refitting of our collapsing infrastructure, providing our children with a world-class educational system, and our citizenry with a meaningful healthcare program. Why must we spend the huge sums each year on guns, bombs, a world wide military footprint, millions of military personnel, and high-tech military hardware--if NO SERIOUS ENEMIES to threaten us? So as a result of this dearth of enemies the military-industrial-media cabal must CREATE OR CULTIVATE ENEMIES to JUSTIFY THIS GREAT EXPENDITURE OF WEALTH

Mr. Putin's Russia is now in the "create an enemy stage". The scenario is one that has been repeated over and over again since WWII. The new enemies' actions are all "threatening", "sinister" and "dangerous". He is tyrant, a "murderer", and he attacks his own people. Even when our new enemy is pushed and prodded to only to respond to OUR threats to HIS nation's existence (as in the US push to gather in the Ukraine into NATO) this new enemy is vilified for coming to his nation's defense or its best interest. All this to satisfy our need to spend, spend, spend on our military-industrial deep state and ignore the needs of our nation's people, our failing infrastructure, our sad state of healthcare and education.

The USA is the largest economy in the world. It should be able to have an up-to-date, functioning and modern infrastructure, a thriving economy, a world class educational system so our children can compete with others, a healthcare system that serves the needs of all Americans, as well as secure borders and sensible immigration policies.

To get to that state of affairs we must control the wasteful spending piddled away to enrich a small class of entrepreneurs and investors and Washington-media and government facilitators all working diligently to "protect" us from manufactured enemies". Rather, we must deny these forces and focus on putting our hard won resources into building a truly well-maintained, economically strong and powerful nation with a well-fed, sufficiently-cared for population, a well-educated citizenry living in a modern well-maintained nation. Such a nation would truly be powerful symbol of hope and the "shining city on a hill" to aspire to. "It can be done".

WHAT ABOUT GERMANY?

Try to imagine an America doing as well for its people and its economy as does Germany--the richest most economically powerful state in Europe. With only a fraction of our population, our size, our natural resources, our inventiveness, our ability, the Germans outperform us in getting the best for their people and the most out of each dollar spent! Perhaps that is where we would be if we only spent 1% of our GDP on "defense" as does Deutschland rather than three times that amount!

Let's put that in another way. The German government with a population of 81 million in 2015 spends only @ $39 billion for defense in US dollars annually, or less than $500 dollars per year per person as "overhead" for "defense". They seem to be quite safe and happy over there. We on the other hand (population @ 320 million) spend about $600 billion annually (not counting our ME wars) or nearly $2000 dollars per head each year for our "defense". We spend 400 % more than every German does for our "defense". Germany=$500/person/year vs USA =$2000/person/year. Why?

The Germans can put so much more to their Deutschmarks into supporting their citizens' well being, the encouragement and expansion of their industries, the maintenance and regular upgrading their infrastructure, and the excellent education of their students than we can.

Burdened as we are with defense spending to protect us from fantasy enemies--we can not!

I PROPOSE WE CAN HAVE IT ALL. THAT WE CAN CUT OUR SO CALLED "DEFENSE" SPENDING IN HALF AND STILL BE THE MOST POWERFUL NATION IN THE WORLD. WE CAN BECOME THE TRUE "SHINING CITY ON A HILL" IF WE CAN GET CONTROL OF FOREIGN POLICY, DEFENSE SPENDING, AND STOP CREATING ENEMIES WHICH DO NOT EXIST.