Sunday, October 13, 2013

True America: Austerity Need Not Apply

While the politicos in Washington stage the second week of the shutdown psychodrama, the Temple of Mammon known as the Pentagon chugs merrily along wasting yet more taxpayer dollars; no aid for the huddled masses, but plenty for the warmongers' free lunch. Case in point: the new C-27J cargo plane which will join the $35 billion worth of other military aircraft rotting in the Arizona desert at Davis-Monthon. At least jobs repairing bridges, constructing high speed rail between urban megaplexes, and creating 21st electric grid among other needed infrastructure projects would leave a useful legacy. Nothing useful about an newly-built aircraft that will never fulfill its intended military mission: