Deja Vu - Guns v. Butter Election Looms - 2

The Military's War Against Americans

The year 2014 is an election year that is taking shape to be a repeat of the ad nauseam type.

The deja vu issues that are taking shape are symptomatic of what we like to symbolically call MOMCOM, an entity that is out to plunder the nation all over again.

The negative side of this political reality is that the military establishment portion of MOMCOM is out to suck the life out of social insurance systems such as Social Security Insurance, Health Care Insurance, Medicare Insurance, and other requirements for any stable and humane civilization to continue to exist or to improve.

The warmongering political statute of the past decade, which is aligned against civility of all kinds, is not even required for civilization, rather, it is required for more barbarism and more decadence.

The Senate Majority Leader sees Military v The People taking shape and coming to a neoCon near you:

"I would like to suggest that maybe the Republicans aren't too happy with next year's sequestration. Who does it hurt, non-defense? I get an extra billion dollars this year compared to [last] year. Defense? They lose $23 billion," Reid said, referring to the Pentagon. "So I would think there should be some people among the Republicans in the House and Senate who would say we should take a look at that."
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Reid also said that he would make sure to protect Social Security against attempts to trade cuts for sequestration relief, calling such a bargain "a stupid trade."

"That's no trade. We are going to affect entitlements so we can increase defense spending? Don't check me for a vote there. I'm not interested in that," he said.

"It is the most successful social program in the history of the world. The program is not about to go broke, so take it easy on Social Security," Reid said.

(Harry Reid: Hiking Defense Spending / Cutting Social Security). The military needs many more billions to spy on every human being on the planet, including all Americans.

At least the demented Queens of Stalingrad and the neoFeudalists think so:

Then-defense secretary Robert M. Gates stopped bagging his leaves when he moved into a small Washington military enclave in 2007. His next-door neighbor was Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time, who had a chef, a personal valet and — not lost on Gates — troops to tend his property.

Gates may have been the civilian leader of the world’s largest military, but his position did not come with household staff. So, he often joked, he disposed of his leaves by blowing them onto the chairman’s lawn.

“I was often jealous because he had four enlisted people helping him all the time,” Gates said in response to a question after a speech Thursday. He wryly complained to his wife that “Mullen’s got guys over there who are fixing meals for him, and I’m shoving something into the microwave. And I’m his boss.”

Of the many facts that have come to light in the scandal involving former CIA director David H. Petraeus, among the most curious was that during his days as a four-star general, he was once escorted by 28 police motorcycles as he traveled from his Central Command headquarters in Tampa to socialite Jill Kelley’s mansion ...

Holy Wars for the Big Bucks

The commanders who lead the nation’s military services and those who oversee troops around the world enjoy an array of perquisites befitting a billionaire, including executive jets, palatial homes, drivers, security guards and aides to carry their bags, press their uniforms and track their schedules in 10-minute increments. Their food is prepared by gourmet chefs. If they want music with their dinner parties, their staff can summon a string quartet or a choir.

The elite regional commanders who preside over large swaths of the planet don’t have to settle for Gulfstream V jets. They each have a C-40, the military equivalent of a Boeing 737 ...

(American Feudalism - 3). The military NSA that has been spying on all Americans (ACLU vs. Clapper, Alexander, Hagel, Holder, and Mueller) also has the support of an additional spy army that also targets Americans:

* Some 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence in about 10,000 locations across the United States.

* An estimated 854,000 people, nearly 1.5 times as many people as live in Washington, D.C., hold top-secret security clearances.

* In Washington and the surrounding area, 33 building complexes for top-secret intelligence work are under construction or have been built since September 2001. Together they occupy the equivalent of almost three Pentagons or 22 U.S. Capitol buildings - about 17 million square feet of space.

* Many security and intelligence agencies do the same work, creating redundancy and waste. For example, 51 federal organizations and military commands, operating in 15 U.S. cities, track the flow of money to and from terrorist networks.

* Analysts who make sense of documents and conversations obtained by foreign and domestic spying share their judgment by publishing 50,000 intelligence reports each year - a volume so large that many are routinely ignored.
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[with an additional secret budget not printed on the normal budget]
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The $52.6 billion “black budget” for fiscal 2013, obtained by The Washington Post from former ­intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, maps a bureaucratic and operational landscape that has never been subject to public scrutiny. Although the government has annually released its overall level of intelligence spending since 2007, it has not divulged how it uses the money or how it performs against the goals set by the president and Congress.

The 178-page budget summary for the National Intelligence Program details the successes, failures and objectives of the 16 spy agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community, which has 107,035 employees.

(American Feudalism - 4). Regular readers know that Dredd Blog has been pointing out this utter madness which has been and still is bringing down our nation constitutionally and economically:

It is an old saying, nearly a dozen centuries old, that "war begat the king". It is no less true that war ... begat feudalism.
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War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied: and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people.

(American Feudalism - 2). The barbarian appetite of the rogue military distorts their thinking until they consider your health care to be their number one threat:

Pentagonia, capitol of Bullshitistan, well aware of the current political climate, has declared who its greatest enemy is, believing it is health care:

The U.S. military keeps searching the horizon for a peer competitor, the challenger that must be taken seriously. Is it China? What about an oil rich and resurgent Russia?

But the threat that is most likely to hobble U.S. military capabilities is not a peer competitor, rather it is health care.

(The Enemy the Pentagon Should Fear Most: Health Care, National Defense Magazine, emphasis added). We have been pointing out this very strange ideology for a while now, using "MOMCOM" symbolism to isolate the militant energy fighting against the middle class and poor in the United States.

(Your Health Is Their Number 1 Enemy?!). For those interested in reading more about this, here are a few of the many other posts on this issue: Entitlement Wars - Guns vs. Butter, The Reds Want Butter Too, Why Is The Government Conditioning Us To Austerity? - 2, The Graphs of Wrath.

The previous post in this series is here.