Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Greed is Not Simply Taking the Whole Cake for Yourself

If you take the whole cake, you just get fat.  Be greedy like that if you wish but it's not that interesting.

The greed I mean is to waste forty billion dollars and a tremendous amount of the world's resources to build the F-22 jet fighter.  One hundred and eighty-seven of these fighters were built.  Zero ever saw any real service.  A few escorted some turboprop Russian bombers a few times.  Hoo-rah.

It was called the "Raptor" but "RapedYou" would be more appropriate.

To see this and do nothing is vastly more wasteful and greedy than stuffing your face with chocolate.  This isn't about saving for retirement or making sure your kids have shoes.  My point is that any difficulty in getting those shoes almost certainly comes from the wastefulness you see above plus many other examples.

Right now the U.S. is occupying countries all over the world and has placed military bases there ... so they can ensure Russians do not occupy them and put military bases there.  That the Russians have never given any indication of doing anything beyond ensuring no-one else ever does to them what Hitler did, the basis for this provocation makes neither military nor budgetary sense.

The Pentagon still wants a war with Stalin.  It's not that the rest of the world failed to evolve but rather the US didn't.  Perhaps you noticed they are not Communists anymore.  Everywhere is socialist and it's only a question of degree.

The only ideological concept in play around the world is doing good business ... and it is fucking lousy at it.  Any business this wasteful deserves to go straight down the Crapper.  Thank you, Thomas.  Long may your name be remembered.  People laugh but let's see how funny they find it in an outhouse, eh, Thomas.

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