care and feeding of the Empire

When wondering what the future holds for Americans, remember that the Empire must expand.  Empires, by their very nature, cannot stand still.  They either expand or contract and die.  And in either way, the Empire sucks up everything in sight in a desperate attempt to survive. 

Finally, we 98% are *Not part of the Empire.  We are its fodder.  Carl Jarvis

 

From today's LUV News:

 

THE AUSTERITY SCAM

 

Two stories out this morning show that the proposed sequester/austerity programs being discussed by President Obama and Congress are unnecessary and a scam. 

The first is a piece is about the Empire expanding its operations in the Pacific, identified as "rebalancing."  We appear to have unlimited resources for expansion of Empire, even as cutting social programs is being discussed to apply to the peasants. This is about the "defense" of the 1% at the expense of the 99%, as real defense is abandoned.

The second is a piece from Common Dreams showing that there is money aplenty hiding from the budget even as Obama and Boehner are telling us we are in dire straits, beginning, "At a time of record corporate profits, U.S. 'corporate tax dodgers' are parking more of their profits offshore, taking advantage of tax loopholes to shield billions from U.S. taxes."  Do we really need to make the poor and elderly suffer to protect this abomination?

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 "We do not inherit the land from
our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."