"Although the stimulus debate of 2008 and 2009 brought out some Military Keynesian arguments, the stakes have since been raised. In the wake of the debt ceiling compromise negotiated between President Obama and Congressional Republicans in August, the guns-versus-butter dilemma has become starker than ever.

Eisenhower may have always been right on a metaphorical level about arms merchants stealing bread from the hungry. Yet the trade-off has not always been so direct. In past years, politicians have often chosen both to fill Pentagon coffers and to support a measure of social spending, even if it meant sustaining budget deficits.

Current demands for austerity have changed that. The debt compromise not only mandated an initial round of budget cuts, it also charged a congressional "super committee" with finding between .2 trillion and .5 trillion in further reductions to the 10-year federal budget. If lawmakers do not meet this requirement by the end of November, the deal will "trigger" an automatic .2 trillion in cuts, half of which would come from "defense and security." To avoid these automatic cuts, hawks will be pushing hard to instead put social programs on the chopping block.

Given the Military Industrial Complex's canny instincts for self-preservation and the loopholes included in the compromise agreement, there is some doubt about how severe cuts at the Pentagon would actually be, even in a most extreme case. Nevertheless, the threat of a budget squeeze has been real enough to prompt an aggressive counter-offensive by arms lobbyists."

to read Mark Engler's article published by Foreign Policy in Focus, Nov 15, 2011, click on

http://www.fpif.org/articles/war_the_wrong_jobs_program

www.warcrimestimes.org

Jay Janson

Archival research peoples historian activist, musician and writer, who has lived and worked on all the continents and whose articles on media have been published in China, Italy, England and the US, and now resides in New York City.

The world has long become used to American exceptional-ism (fascist?), and US disinterest in a relatively insignificant destiny for the non-American population of a US dominated planet Earth. OWS seeks to end injustice and poverty in the US. Will that end America's need for wars that create infinitely more massive injustice and poverty abroad? King taught:"MURDEROUS WARS ON the POOR THERE, BRING INJUSTICE & POVERTY HOME HERE



http://www.opednews.com/articles/Occupation-Wall-St-Target-by-Jay-Janson-111115-18.html

Well,I guess given the military actions that all the military actions that Obama has either begun or continued and expanded over the last 2 yrs means that he's nothing but a shit brained nigger warmonger

of course we have this problem.

the fascists were not defeated in WW2 because they just re-scheduled and amended the methods.

.....they put up the Iron Curtain and oppressed Eastern Europe for nearly half a century....they even got their mitts on Cuba and China and North Korea

but who are they?

they sound just lie you.

'lord'

ha ha ha ha ha

like that flea and the rant about self absorption and self gratification at the expense of the majority....

'lord'

ha ha ha ha ha

The Global Satanic Government (The CIA) joyfully, Satanically, and Ritually Stimulating their Post 9-11 War on Islam Economy, which The Global Apostates of Hell From Langley, Virginia (The CIA) began to Stimulate when they did their Al CIA Duh 9-11 Attacks, by having their fellow Global Satanic Cult Members The Satanic Law Fakirs in State, Local, and Federal Government Embezzle Infastructure Funds to Fund The CIA's Gory Satanic Ritual Serial Murders Abroad, and The Rich Satanic 1% Ship High Paying Jobs Overseas via their Post 9-11 NAFTA Slave Trade Economic Stimulus Package, hoping to give the 99% a choice between Starvation or Be all You Can Be in The Devil's (The CIA) Satanic War Crimes Army, while finding Trillions for Satan Worshiping Defense Contractors, and Cutting Veterans Benefits so Iraq and Afghan War Veterans can Sleep in The Streets, when they get home.