Make the 1% Pay for the Iran War

[xchrom]

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/04



Something wonderful happened in Washington in 2013 that can't be celebrated too much: the Pentagon spending lobby experienced a clear defeat in its efforts to prevent any real cuts to the Pentagon budget. When the music stopped on the budget negotiations, those paid to claim that if we gave the Pentagon a haircut foreigners would steal our lunch money came up short: half the planned Pentagon cuts were left in place.

A key reason that the Pentagon spending lobby lost was that for once, runaway Pentagon spending was framed as a trade-off whose significance most people could easily grasp.

It's one thing to shovel endless cash to the Pentagon if it's just numbers on a piece of paper. If the Pentagon budget is $700 billion or $500 billion, who's going to lose sleep over that? Iranians could be hiding under our beds enriching uranium, so we'd better shovel some more cash to the Pentagon. Why not? It's not like increasing the Pentagon budget actually costs us anything.

It's quite another thing to shovel endless cash to the Pentagon if we actually have to give up something that we care about in order to pay for it.

[rdharma]

1. Agreed, but.......

.... make 'em pay for the Iraq war first!

[Ohio Joe]

2. They want it... They make the profit from it...

I see no problem with them paying for it.

Edit - Typos... It' early

[onehandle]

3. Why is the right so concerned with Iran, when clearly North Korea will use a nuke any day now.

You know, The country that George W. Bush stopped talking to, encouraging them to test nukes.

[jwirr]

4. They are the profiteers so it is only fitting that they pay for what they profitted from.

[woo me with science]

5. They may not have an Iran War.

The answer needs to be "no."

[NaturalHigh]

6. Well, I'm hoping there won't be one.

[pampango]

7. If there is one (hope not), the lives will be shed by the 99% on both sides. Paying for it is the

least that the 1% could do. Let us hope and work to see that it does not happen.

[backwoodsbob]

8. but but but

how can we continue trickle on us economics if the rich actually have to pay for something?