Cashing in on the Bush Doctrine
04/15/05
War, as Randolph Bourne famously pointed out, is the health of the State -- but it sickens and kills the rest of us. A few profit greatly, while the majority must pay -- in tax dollars and the blood of our children. Remember that, this Tax Day, when you mail that check off, made payable to the U.S. Treasury. Imagine if you had to make it out to, say, Trireme Partners, or Hillman Capital, or Boeing-Lockheed-Martin-Whomever directly -- think what a difference in perception that would make. Because that's what's really going on. The redistribution of wealth from the lower and middle classes to a government-connected financial elite: that's not laissez-faire capitalism, or anything close to free-market economics -- that's political plutocracy...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=5562
from AntiWar.Com, by Justin Raimondo
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
War, as Randolph Bourne famously pointed out, is the health of the State -- but it sickens and kills the rest of us. A few profit greatly, while the majority must pay -- in tax dollars and the blood of our children. Remember that, this Tax Day, when you mail that check off, made payable to the U.S. Treasury. Imagine if you had to make it out to, say, Trireme Partners, or Hillman Capital, or Boeing-Lockheed-Martin-Whomever directly -- think what a difference in perception that would make. Because that's what's really going on. The redistribution of wealth from the lower and middle classes to a government-connected financial elite: that's not laissez-faire capitalism, or anything close to free-market economics -- that's political plutocracy...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=5562
from AntiWar.Com, by Justin Raimondo
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 15. Apr, 14:28
