Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thanks Obama Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 18:40:53 -0800 Organization: Wheeler&Wheeler Lines: 61 Message-ID: <87io2pug5m.fsf@garlic.com> References: <2ua1nc-s8a.ln1@sambook.reistad.name> <20160119155418@news.eternal-september.org> <8uot9bh4stdridqotk3n0aadagsakhobpd@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="9a6c8ce24fcd2caeb84dd64e0fa6007c"; logging-data="9620"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+BpiDw+AOIJq7XXGnbmUdfWJ/LHxjBIRU=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:yWLE6p5tMJ+uEMU3TxA3ZptLo4c= sha1:PPhLAW9q4CJPezCbJSqQeKe8W9s= Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:157103 JimP writes: > Congress typically cuts, or don't increase military paychecks, as a > way to 'cut military spending'. congress increases spending for the military industrial complex ... where they will sacrifice soldier paychecks and benefits in order to continue increasing MICC industry spending. MICC industry wants to see constantly increasing quarterly numbers ... regardless of the ups and downs of world conflicts ... i.e. Eisenhower warning and emerging perpetual war http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war micc http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex one explanation for the massive militarization of police ... is that giving away all that military hardware to police departments around the country ... would then require big MICC contracts to replace that equipment. Militarization of police - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militarization_of_police The dangerous militarization of our police http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/13/opinions/love-move-bombing-anniversary/ 11 Shocking Facts About America's Militarized Police Forces http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/11-shocking-facts-about-americas-militarized-police-forces Police Militarization https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/reforming-police-practices/police-militarization Police Militarization http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/police-militarization/ The administration ... including the VP ... besides the WMD fabrication justifying Iraq war ... were also claiming it would "only" cost $50B ... however company (including subsidiaries) formally headed by VP, is the winner of almost that much in no-bid Iraq contracts And The Winner For The Most Iraq War Contracts Is . . . KBR, With $39.5 Billion In A Decade http://www.ibtimes.com/winner-most-iraq-war-contracts-kbr-395-billion-decade-1135905 Last week, the Costs of War Project by the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University said the war in Iraq cost $1.7 trillion dollars, not including the $490 billion in immediate benefits owed to veterans of the war and the lifetime benefits that will be owed to them or their next of kin. ... snip ... other estimates have combined Iraq & Afphganistan coming to long term $5T-$6T. Halliburton, KBR, and Iraq war contracting: A history so far http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/jun/09/arianna-huffington/halliburton-kbr-and-iraq-war-contracting-history-s/ Maybe what they met to say was that Halliburton & subsidiaries wouldn't charge the US gov. more than $50B for the Iraq war ... rather than the total cost of the Iraq war wouldn't be more than $50B. -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970