Unemployment extension debt

[murdoch]

Looking through news websites, I see a lot of concern and talk about the deficit when the scaled back $54 billion unemployment extension is brought up. They keep saying that now is the time to talk about the deficit. Some editorials say even the $54 billion bill should be done away with.

Many of these editorials were done last week, while the finishing touches on the military budget, and 2010 military supplementary appropriations were going on. $760 billion in all. Which pays for the killing of the American in international waters shot dead by Israeli commandos as he tried to deliver food, medicine and cement to Gaza. It pays for the large new military bases scattered all over Colombia, where AUC terrorists are murdering those trying to form labor unions. It pays for the military aid to Honduras, where the progressive, democratically elected president was ousted by military coup, and where the military has shut the press down and where opposing candidates in the recent "elections" were murdered.

So money for an expanded role of the American boot on the poor and working brown people of the world is $760 billion and we hear no gnashing of the teeth about deficits. Control of our economy is given by the acceptance of social relations to the owners of capital, who have decided to keep the unemployment rate at 10% (and higher for non U-3 unemployment measures). Despite this high rate, the puny unemployment extension, less than one tenth the money just handed over to America's imperial budget which deals with far flung corners of the world, has been decided as the object on which to gnash teeth and contemplate the debt and think about fiscal constraint.

This government is becoming as oppressive to the working people of this country as it is to the Hondurans, the Iraqis, the Palestinians, the Afghanis, the Cubans, and all the other people under the boot of that $760 billion military budget just passed with little mention of deficit.

[laughingliberal]

1. Huge REC! nt

[Better Today]

2. Kick..ity...kick

[lib2DaBone]

3. Big Rec 2 Always plenty of money to export war

.. and crush democratically elected leaders.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3oZU4Y8dx0&feature=player_embedded

[femrap]

4. Does this $760 Billion

include any of the NSA, CIA or the other 14 Intelligence Agencies? Or is this just for the Pentagon?

Are we so stupid that we need SIXTEEN Intelligence Agencies? Some have said this is an absurd area to manage....and yet this new dude, Clapper, is going to try to do it. He's 69 years old. Do you think he's up to the task?

All I can think of is....'Clap off Clap on...Clapper.'

WASF.

[midnight]

5. Thank you.

[Berry Cool]

6. There's always plenty of money for war.

It's when we're talking about giving some money to people out of work that we start to become concerned about the deficit, and whether we aren't just encouraging people to be lazy and dependent by providing them with a little money to help them survive.

[proudohioan]

7. K&R!!!

:kick:

[lib2DaBone]

8. Tier 5 To Survive.. ....

[mrdmk]

9. K & R

murdoch, you do not post very much, but when you do, you do not mince words...

Good work! :headbang: