(from Freedom and Reason)
Do you ever wonder where the billions of dollars the government spends on Iraq and Afghanistan every week go? Well, much of it goes into the pockets of the corporations that manufacture the weapons the US military uses to obliterate farming communities and wedding parties and to pay private contractors to organize and manage imperialism on the ground and torture human beings. That's right, every week, billions of dollars of your money goes into the pockets of capitalists - war profiteers - who main, kill, and destroy people and their property.
The money Bush has spent so far in Iraq alone would have ended poverty in the US, provided everybody with decent housing, universalized health care, and launched Apollo projects in energy and education, with plenty left over to reduce the national debt and keep interest rates low and the economy stable. Instead, that money - your money - was transferred from the US treasury into the hands of families who live a life of leisure in gated communities at the expense of people around the world who are barely eking out an existence. The wealthy pigs have the most money, the most expensive houses, the most terrific health care, and access to the most excellent educational institutions because you don't. They feed on you.
If you could know only one fact about the United States that would tell you who runs the country and who doesn't, it's the brutal truth that the US government takes your money and gives it to people who kill other people and destroy their property.
So how long are you going to keep slopping the hogs?
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