This is a serious and documented indictment of the primary industry in our
country: the war machine.
He uses facts and figures and he is hardly considered a liberal.
This is what is bring the nation to it's knees; the continual drain of a war
economy.
Their is the national obsession with 'personal consumerism' but this is
insignificant as to what they are extracting by keeping the nation in a
state of war.
Is their a way out? Can we get off the train of national self destruction?
The author doesnt address this though I'm sure he has in his more extensive
writing.
Some economic philosophies clearly define what is produced in an economy
must have a use value. Food, transportation, tool, housing as well as
medicine and education. They all continue to return value to the economy and
the nation.
Weapons of war return nothing as they extract from the nations wealth and
transfer wealth to a small number of people. It is not a consumer product or
a service. It also uses extensive and expensive basic recourses and
employees less workers than other forms of manufacturing. Their is no cost
limitatations so theirs is no economic balance.
My own conclusion is we are obsessed with a national delusion that all
Empires as suseptical too. That the world is the enemy and the only option
for us is to continue to arm and expand.
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