The tidal wave of red ink that has drowned our future generations since BushCo took over is largely due to war, munitions, and private security bills. The creation of the Federal Department of Homeland Security alone cost billions. That was just to set it up, before they even did anything.The strategy plainly is to drain the economy for imaginary security threats that trump social spending. This will force a cowering population led by privately-financed politicians to abandon social programs for destruction and force programs.The New York Times does a great job of delicately unmasking this shark lurking beneath our socio-economic surface: the fat violent predator who will gobble up our society in one ferocious fiscal attack.What the Times doesn't point out, however, is what is inevitably the endgame of this scenario. There isn't a country, an empire, a police state in history that hasn't followed the script of turning its imperial forces against its own population. Military-industrial presidents and congresspersons will ensure that after our population is stripped of effective political power, we will then be stripped of all socially progressive public programs.The war costs too much, you see, and the people have to pay for it even after they decide it isn't worth the costs. So the unitary executive uses his/her new powers and private armed forces to completely shut down political dissent, opposition, or social advocacy.It becomes a security issue, and security trumps everything.If Bob Herbert is able to keep writing editorials long enough to chronicle this American civil destruction, I doubt the "liberal" New York Times will still be able to publish by then anything as critical and suggestive as this editorial.
Behold Burma.
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