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A $1.5 trillion military budget is a gift to the grifters.

Last week, Secretary of War, P. Hexeth, insulted Americans by claiming that a 50% increase in the U.S. military budget from an incomprehensible $1 trillion to an impossible $1.5 trillion was a fiscally responsible investment.

Thanks to President Trump's $1.5 trillion defense budget, this war department has moved from bureaucracy to business, he said last Thursday.

In a way, he was right. The huge increase is much more about business than what it is needed to protect the United

States from potential invasion. But it isn't the kind of business that most supporters of free markets

would applaud. On the contrary, this is the business of transferring massive amounts of wealth

from the struggling middle and working classes to the well-connected Beltway elite based on lies and scare tactics.

The U.S. mainstream media is crucial in manufacturing the fairy tale, and if we don't

mortgage our children and grandchildren's future to finance this obscene military budget, we will

be attacked or invaded by some evil foreign power. It's not difficult to do a little research and see why the mainstream and even some independent media outlets push these scare tactics.

They are owned or funded by giant corporations with close ties to military contractors.

This unhealthy relationship is known as corporatism, the intermingling of pseudo-private companies

with the government. It is the precursor to actual fascism where the government takes a stake in such companies.

We're getting there faster than most Americans understand.

The whole scam is not about protecting the citizens of the United States.

It's about protecting the U.S. Empire overseas,

which actually harms the citizens of the United States. Yes, they rob us to fund the Empire

and lie to us that it keeps us safe. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Our constant military interventions on virtually every continent of the globe

only builds resentment among the rest of the world's population.

Anyone who thinks people overseas welcome U.S. bombs has been watching too much

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