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    This Is the First Time In History that All Central Banks Have Printed Money at the Same Time … And They’re Failing Miserably

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    Simultaneous Global Printing Is Failing Miserably

    Mainstream Keynesian economists argue that the failure of the European austerity measures to pull Europe out of the doldrums proves that more stimulus is needed, and that austerity is poison at this stage.

    Indeed, most mainstream economists pretend that debt doesn’t exist … or believe that debt for its own sake is good and necessary.
    But Martin Weiss noted last month:
    Four of the world’s largest central banks have gone absolutely berserk, running the money printing presses like never before in history:
    Source: Chart lines — Pimco
    The Bank of Japan (BOJ) had already been printing money like crazy ever since their bubble economy burst in the early 1990s.
    So when the debt crisis struck in 2008, the size of their balance sheet assets, which measure the cumulative total of a central bank’s money printing operations, was already the biggest in the world: About 20% of their economy.
    Then, when the shock waves of the Lehman Brothers collapse struck Japan, what did they do?
    They stepped up their money printing operations EVEN further — to about 30% of GDP. (See yellow line in chart above.)
    Other than Brazil in the 1970s or Germany in the 1920s, no other major nation — or group of nations — on the planet had ever gone that far! (Until, that is, Europe, which I’ll get to in a moment.)
    Meanwhile …
    At the U.S. Federal Reserve, no Fed Chairman in history — not even notorious easy-money advocates like Arthur Burns or Allen Greenspan — had EVER run the money printing presses for any extended period of time.
    But Fed Chairman Bernanke changed all that. Soon after the debt crisis hit in 2008, he nearly TRIPLED the size of the Fed’s balance sheet from about 6% of GDP to almost 17% of GDP.
    And in the years since, he has pumped it up even further to about 20% of GDP! (Red line in chart.)
    The Bank of England (BOE) has mostly been expanding its balance sheet in lock step with the Fed (green line).
    But in the global race to print money, it’s the European Central Bank (ECB) which has been leading the pack in the past year or so, suddenly expanding their balance sheet from about 20% of GDP to close to 30% GDP (blue line).
    This is absolutely massive!
    Heck, in the 1990s and 2000s, just the money-printing operations by ONE central bank (the Bank of Japan) changed the world:
    Global investors borrowed abundant amounts of cheap money in Japan and poured it into risky investments around the world, helping to create some of the largest bubbles — and busts — in history.
    Now, imagine FOUR central banks doing the same thing at the same time!
    Indeed, China and India have been printing as well, as shown by the last 2 of these 2011 charts:
    The U.S. is printing lots of money…..

    Source, The St. Louis Fed

    The Bank of England is printing lots of money…..

    Source: The BoE

    The EU is printing lots of money….

    Source: The ECB

    Japan is printing lots of money…..

    Source: The BoJ

    China is printing lots of money…..

    Source: The People’s Bank of China

    India is printing lots of money…..

    Source: Reserve Bank of India
    Pimco CEO El-Erian warned last month that central banks might fail in their giant experiment to cure the world’s economic ills with paper money. See this and this.
    Conservative economists argue that if war spending could get us out of our slump, it would have done so by now. They also point out that “more empires have fallen because of reckless finances than invasion”.
    They also point out that the government has spent more in the last decade than in all of American history before that … to no avail:
    The government has done more than during the Great Depression, but the economy is still stuck a pit.
    ***
    The amount spent in emergency bailouts, loans and subsidies during this financial crisis arguably dwarfs the amount which the government spent during the New Deal.
    For example, Casey Research wrote in 2008:
    Paulson and Bernanke have embarked on the largest bailout program ever conceived …. a program which so far will cost taxpayers $8.5 trillion.
    [The number is arguably much higher now. ]
    So how does $8.5 trillion dollars compare with the cost of some of the major conflicts and programs initiated by the US government since its inception? To try and grasp the enormity of this figure, let’s look at some other financial commitments undertaken by our government in the past:

    As illustrated above, one can see that in today’s dollar, we have already committed to spending levels that surpass the cumulative cost of all of the major wars and government initiatives since the American Revolution.
    Recently, the Congressional Research Service estimated the cost of all of the major wars our country has fought in 2008 dollars. The chart above shows that the entire cost of WWII over four to five years was less than half the current pledges made by Paulson and Bernanke in the last three months!
    In spite of years of conflict, the Vietnam and the Iraq wars have each cost less than the bailout package that was approved by Congress in two weeks. The Civil War that devastated our country had a total price tag (for both the Union and Confederacy) of $60.4 billion, while the Revolutionary War was fought for a mere $1.8 billion.
    In its fifty or so years of existence, NASA has only managed to spend $885 billion – a figure which got us to the moon and beyond.
    The New Deal had a price tag of only $500 billion. The Marshall Plan that enabled the reconstruction of Europe following WWII for $13 billion, comes out to approximately $125 billion in 2008 dollars. The cost of fixing the S&L crisis was $235 billion.
    CNBC confirms that the New Deal cost about $500 billion (and the S&L crisis cost around $256 billion) in inflation adjusted dollars.
    So even though the government’s spending on the “war” on the economic crisis dwarfs the amount spent on the New Deal, our economy is still stuck in the mud.
    “Deficit hawks” like top economic historian Niall Ferguson says that America’s debt will drive it into a debt crisis, and that any more quantitative easing will lead our creditors to pull the plug. See this, this and this. Indeed, PhD economist Michael Hudson says (starting around 4:00 into video):
    If the problem that is grinding the economy to a halt is too much debt, and if no one in the government – in either party – is looking at solving the debt problem, then … we’re going to go into a depression as far as the eye can see.
    Yet the U.S. hasn’t reined in its profligate spending. While modern economic theory shows that debts do matter (and see this), the U.S. is spending on guns and butter, and American debt has risen to more than 100% of GDP.
    As PhD economist Dean Baker points out, the IMF is cracking down on the once-proud America like a naughty third world developing country. (As I’ve repeatedly noted, the IMF performed a complete audit of the whole US financial system during Bush’s last term in office – something which they have only previously done to broke third world nations.)
    Indeed, economics professor and former Senior Economist for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers Laurence Kotlikoff wrote in 2010:
    Let’s get real. The U.S. is bankrupt.
    ***
    Last month, the International Monetary Fund released its annual review of U.S. economic policy…. The IMF has effectively pronounced the U.S. bankrupt.
    ***
    Based on the CBO’s data, I calculate a fiscal gap of $202 trillion, which is more than 15 times the official debt.
    ***
    This is what happens when you run a massive Ponzi scheme for six decades straight….
    ***
    Bond traders will kick us miles down our road once they wake up and realize the U.S. is in worse fiscal shape than Greece.
    Indeed, despite all of the global money printing, we’re still in a Depression. And see see this.
    False Debate: More Stimulus Or More Austerity

    In fact, the whole stimulus-versus-austerity debate is a false one (as we noted last year). Let’s examine an analogy to get beyond the rhetoric and see what’s really going on …
    The blood pressure of the patient in the emergency room drops precipitously.
    The ER docs have already given 15 pints of blood over the course of many hours. But the patient is still on the verge of dying.
    Medical rules and regulations say that more than 15 pints of blood should never be given, as too much transfusion can cause other fatal problems.
    The “liberal” doctors want to give the patient more blood. After all, this is a life-or-death emergency … and if they can just buy more time, they might be able to figure out a way to save the patient.
    The “conservative” doctors want to stop with the transfusions. After all, giving too much blood could kill the patient … and maybe he’ll be able to pull out of it on his own.
    Who is right?
    Well, the “liberal” and “conservative” doctors are so busy arguing their point of view that they haven’t noticed that one of the patient’s legs has been half chewed off. He’s bleeding out through the huge open wound.
    Unless the doctors suture up the wound, the patient will bleed out no matter how much blood they give him.
    The government isn’t even stimulating in an effective way …. it isn’t spending money on the types of stimulus that will have the most bang for the buck. And giving money to the little guy helps stimulate the economy much more than giving it to the big financial players.
    But while D.C. has thrown a couple billion dollars at jobs and the states – it is a tiny drop in the bucket compared to the many tens of trillions of dollars in handouts to the giant banks.
    Whether or not Keynesian stimulus could help in our climate of all-pervading debt, Washington has already shot America’s wad in propping up the big banks and other oligarchs.
    More important still, Keynes implemented his New Deal stimulus at the same time that Glass-Steagall and many other measures were implemented to plug the holes in a corrupt financial system. The gaming of the financial system was decreased somewhat, the amount of funny business which the powers-that-be could engage in was reined in to some extent.
    As such, the economy had a chance to recover (even with the massive stimulus of World War II, unless some basic level of trust had been restored in the economy, the economy would not have recovered).
    Today, however, politicians haven’t fixed any of the major structural defects in the economy ( and see this).
    So even if Keynesianism were the answer, it cannot work without the implementation of structural reforms to the financial system.
    A little extra water in the plumbing can’t fix pipes that have been corroded and are thoroughly rotten. The government hasn’t even tried to replace the leaking sections of pipe in our economy.
    Bailouts, money-printing and lose monetary policy can’t patch a financial system with giant holes in it.
    What are the giant holes?
    Some of the biggest are:









    • Focusing on policy objectives other than reducing unemployment (which has the net effect of actually increasing unemployment)

    Of course, the loss of America’s manufacturing base, encouraging jobs to be shipped abroad, out of control derivatives and other shenanigans are giant holes as well. And the government has been throwing money at the big banks instead of the little guy, which – as Steve Keen as demonstrated – is not an effective way to stimulate the economy.
    Another useful analogy is that of parasite and host. As we wrote in 2009:
    Why isn’t the economy getting better, even though the government is pumping trillions of dollars into bailouts and stimulus packages and intervening in markets left and right?
    Because the government is treating the wrong patient.
    Let’s say you travel to the tropics and pick up a parasite. You go to your doctor who gives you very powerful drugs that make you sick. You go back to the doctor, he looks you over, and then adds more potent drugs to your prescription.
    You go back a third time and say “Doctor, I’m getting sicker and sicker, why isn’t it working?”
    He responds “Oh, I thought the parasite was the patient. The drugs are making it healthier”.
    ***
    The real economy is:
    (1) People making things or providing real, useful services
    (2) People saving money
    and
    (3) People investing the money they saved into productive businesses which will make more things or provide needed services.
    According to top federal reserve officials and economists, the government’s actions will encourage big financial players to make even riskier gambles in the future.
    Indeed, the government is in the process of giving hundreds of billions – if not trillions – of dollars and guarantees to hedge funds (hedge funds are some of the biggest speculators of all). Indeed, the various bailout programs are giving huge sums to companies that make money by pushing paper around without actually producing any useful goods or services.
    The heads of the big banks and financial companies are also getting huge bonuses even though they have driven their companies so far into the ditch that they need government bailouts. Even Paul Volcker says the incentive system is broken. Indeed, the government is making the CEOs richer by giving them billions of dollars of bailout money with which to feather their own nests.
    And credit derivatives [at least to the extent they are naked, unregulated and opaque] act as a parasite on the real economy: credit default swap buyers bet that the referenced company will go down the tubes (see this and this). And yet the government is allowing the credit default swap trades to increase, driving CDS spreads against many companies and governments to reach all-time highs.
    ***
    Not only is the parasite being boosted by government actions, but the patient – the real economy – is being poisoned.
    Manufacturing has been shipped out of America for decades, and the government is still actively encouraging companies to move manufacturing abroad.
    Taxpayers will be on the hook for trillions of dollars of obligations through taxes/or inflation (even Bernanke has admitted that inflation is a tax, because people have less money in their pockets after buying necessities). So Americans will be able to save less.
    And government has not only failed to require that companies accurately report their finances – so that investors can know which companies are stable and productive – but it has actually thwarted such accuracy. For example:

    • A government agency prevented the SEC from investigating multi-billion dollar Ponzi-schemer Stanford


    • As of 2006:
      “President George W. Bush has bestowed on his intelligence czar … broad authority, in the name of national security, to excuse publicly traded companies from their usual accounting and securities-disclosure obligations.”


    The government has been strengthening the parasite and poisoning the real economy. No wonder the patient is getting worse.
    We noted a couple of months later:
    Michael Hudson is a highly-regarded economist. He is a Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, who has advised the U.S., Canadian, Mexican and Latvian governments as well as the United Nations Institute for Training and Research. He is a former Wall Street economist at Chase Manhattan Bank who also helped establish the world’s first sovereign debt fund.
    Hudson has frequently described Wall Street as “parasitic”. For example, in a 2003 interview, Hudson said:
    The problem with parasites is not merely that they siphon off the food and nourishment of their host, crippling its reproductive power, but that they take over the host’s brain as well. The parasite tricks the host into thinking that it is feeding itself.
    Something like this is happening today as the financial sector is devouring the industrial sector. Finance capital pretends that its growth is that of industrial capital formation. That is why the financial bubble is called “wealth creation,” as if it were what progressive economic reformers envisioned a century ago. They condemned rent and monopoly profit, but never dreamed that the financiers would end up devouring landlord and industrialist alike. Emperors of Finance have trumped Barons of Property and Captains of Industry.
    More recently, Hudson said:
    You can think of the financial sector as being wrapped around the real economy, almost like a parasite, and that’s why it’s been called parasitic for so long. The financial sector extracts interest from the economy, the property sector extracts economic rent, as do monopolies. Now the key thing about parasites, is that it’s not simply that they extract nourishment from the host. The parasite takes over the
    host’s brain, to make it think it’s part of the economy, to make it think
    it’s part of the host’s own body, and, in fact, that’s it almost like a child of the host, to be protected. And that’s what the financial sector has done today.

    You have Obama coming out and saying, “We have to save the banks in order to save the real economy”. The fact is, you can’t serve both the parasite and the host.
    And see this.
    On August 10th, Hudson went even further. Specifically, he said:

    • The giant financial institutions have already killed their host – the real American economy


    • Since they realize that the American economy is dead, they are trying to suck as much blood out of America as possible while the corpse is still warm


    • Because the American economy is dead, their plan is to soon jump to another host. They will ship all of their money overseas
    To come back to my original analogy, the dying patient has a horde of leeches inside the gaping wound in his leg, and the transfused blood has done nothing but fed the leeches. [Sorry for the gross analogy.]
    The doctors have been helping the parasites, not the patient. Pumping in more blood – at least by itself – isn’t the answer.
    Unless the doctors clean out the parasites and close the gaping wound, the patient has no chance.

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    Video: Brian Doherty intro his new book, "Ron Paul's rEVOLution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired"!

    Submitted by AnCapMercenary on Wed, 05/02/2012 - 17:25
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    Please check it out!

    Ron Paul's rEVOLution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired



    Published on May 2, 2012 by ReasonTV

    "Ron Paul invented the notion of a populist, activist, modern movement that's transpartisan" says Reason's Brian Doherty.

    Brian Doherty sat down with ReasonTV to talk about his new book and how Ron Paul has changed politics in America. Doherty wrote about the evolution of the libertarian movement in his 2007 book "Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement". He has been following and writing about Ron Paul and his movement since then. Doherty examines Ron Paul's influence in a new book out May 15, "Ron Paul's rEVOLution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired".

    Brian Doherty "documents the meteoric rise of Paul from relative obscurity to national prominence, and examines the fanatically devoted political movement that has arisen around him."

    Doherty spoke with ReasonTV in January while covering the Iwoa caucus to talk about Ron Paul's campaign and the movement that has been built around him primarily over the past four years.

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    Ron Paul beats Obama 49-41 in Montana. Among independents, he crushes 55-33.

    Submitted by The Daily Paul on Wed, 05/02/2012 - 17:33
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    Montana

    Romney leads Obama 48-43, down from a 50-40 advantage when PPP last polled the [Montana] in November. Worse for Romney is that his soon-to-be-vanquished intraparty foe Ron Paul actually leads Obama by eight points (49-41). Obama is able to keep it relatively close here because he basically ties Romney with the plurality independents, while Paul leads by 22 points.

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    Ron Paul thanks Newt Gingrich for his attention to monetary policy reform

    Submitted by Angel C on Wed, 05/02/2012 - 17:31
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    Newt Gingrich officially suspended his campaign on Wednesday, with two Republican primary wins under his belt and a campaign that is over four million dollars in debt. Gingrich claimed the suspension of his campaign did not mean he would suspend his citizenship. Gingrich expressed sadness that his "truly wild ride" was over during his appearance in Arlington, Virginia Wednesday.

    ...

    The Ron Paul campaign also released a statement regarding Gingrich suspending his campaign.

    "As he exits the race for the Republican nomination, I'd like to acknowledge my former colleague in the House Newt Gingrich for running a spirited campaign. In particular, I want to thank the former Speaker for echoing my calls for monetary policy reform including a full audit of the Federal Reserve, steps that will bring America closer to lasting economic prosperity for middle-class Americans who bear the brunt of the dangerous and unjust inflation tax."

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    Obama officially declares himself "Dear Leader": changes Communism Day (May Day) to "Loyalty Day!"

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    The Double Speak Distopia is getting so ridiculously strange, so fast, it's dizzying.

    OMG!

    No really, OM F' G!

    Beep beep beep. I'm a Robot

    Beep beep beep. My Statist Overlords programmed me to worship the State.

    Beep beep beep. The State is my Religion.

    Beep beep beep. I pledge allegiance to the State uber alles!

    Seriously, welcome to USSA.

    No, I really mean it this time.

    Scratch that, oBUSHma really, really, really means it, this time.

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    From Communism Day to Government Loyalty Day


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    On May 1, Obama issued a presidential proclamation. He officially changed May 1 – otherwise known as Communism Day after it was hijacked by the Soviet Union for propaganda purposes – to Loyalty Day, or rather loyalty and sacrifice to government day. It is odd that Obama would reaffirm our allegiance to the Constitution when he has violated it continually.

    From the White House website:
    In order to recognize the American spirit of loyalty and the sacrifices that so many have made for our Nation, the Congress, by Public Law 85-529 as amended, has designated May 1 of each year as “Loyalty Day.” On this day, let us reaffirm our allegiance to the United States of America, our Constitution, and our founding values.

    NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim May 1, 2012, as Loyalty Day. This Loyalty Day, I call upon all the people of the United States to join in support of this national observance, whether by displaying the flag of the United States or pledging allegiance to the Republic for which it stands.

    IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this first day of May, in the year of our Lord two thousand twelve, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-sixth.
    Henceforth, Commie Day will be Allegiance to the Elite and the State Day and we will support all future wars of aggression, the pillage of the national (and global) economy by criminal banksters, and the erosion of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights by government.

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    Nassim Taleb/Mark Spitznagel Fundraiser for Ron Paul

    Submitted by kevink on Wed, 05/02/2012 - 19:26
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    I think it took place yesterday. Anyone know how much money that raised?

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    I warms my heart to see RP get this kind of well-deserved recognition. Oh how far we have come.

    And man, would I love to know who was in attendance.

    From RP's 2012 website: it was $1000.00 for the VIP reception and $500.00 per plate for dinner.

    I have never seen a man with such character and determination! I'm constantly amazed that he has been pursuing his objectives for 30 years! Job of Bible fame would have given up at least 20 years ago. Incredible.

    When all is said and done, the man deserves a monument in Washington DC.
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    Spitznagel and RP already also had some sort of get together at Spitznagel's Bel-Air estate a month or so ago

    PHOTO: Look Which Hedge Funder Has His Arms Around Ron Paul

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    (Ron Paul, Mark Spitznagel)

    A reader sends in this photo of Presidential candidate and hedge funder Mark Spitznagel taken recently at Spitznagel's house.

    It was reported by various outlets back in March that Ron Paul would be having a $2500/plate fundraiser at Spitznagel's Bel-Air mansion (which was previously owned by J-Lo).

    Spitznagel is known for his bearish and Austrian views, and his fund Universa is associated with Nassim Taleb.

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    Ron Paul, defender of the Constitution, could win it all

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    Newt Gingrich ended his campaign for the presidency only hours ago. This is exciting news for Ron Paul supporters. Many Tea Party people were behind Newt and Santorum which should now see that Paul is the only real conservative left standing. Mitt Romney’s position is so closely aligned with President Obama’s that it looks like a mirror.

    In all the GOP debates Romney refrained from attacking Paul, in fact he referred to him as the “defender of the Constitution” and after the past two administrations the Constitution could use some protection. Did Romney conclude that it would eventually be Paul and himself vying for the nomination? Did he see it in a vision?

    Dr. Paul’s followers are the most educated, loyal, devoted to the cause because they see this as a choice between liberty and government dominance. Tea Party people and true Occupy Wall Street people should be eager to jump on board because this is their only opportunity for smaller government, accountability, and all the other tenets that got them started.

    True Tea Party people have to see that Romney fails every candidate test. The Occupy people that have not had their minds hijacked by the union forces and held onto their original thinking for smaller government and accountability should be huge Paul fans; he even wants the wars to end.

    Weighing all these factors, the grassroots, underground movement could decide on the next president of the United States.

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    US military suicide rate EXCEEDS combat fatalities!



    If we are really interested in supporting our troops then that means cutting the political rhetoric that calls for support of our troops merely to appeal to American sensibilities and instead ending our wars, ending serial redeployments and ending cuts to veterans’ benefits and support programs.

    If we are really interested in supporting our troops then we would stop treating them like cattle, shipping them off on foreign wars that have nothing to do with national defense and everything to do with nation building, stop putting soldiers directly in harm’s way, call them heroes and then immediately forget about them when they come home – until redeployment that is.

    If we are really interested in supporting our troops then we would cut spending of military ventures abroad instead of slashing veterans’ benefits promised to soldiers who have loyally served their country, often times at great expense to themselves.

    As Congressman Paul put it:


    There’s just no legitimacy to the argument that voting against funding the war somehow harms our troops. Perpetuating and escalating the war only serve those whose egos are attached to some claimed victory in Iraq, and those with a determination to engineer regime change in Iran.

    Don’t believe for a minute that additional congressional funding is needed so our troops can defend themselves or extricate themselves from the war zone. That’s nonsense. The DOD has hundreds of billions of dollars in the pipeline available to move troops anywhere on earth — including home.

    We shouldn’t forget that the administration took $600 million from the war in Afghanistan and used it in Iraq, before any direct appropriations were made for the invasion of Iraq. Funds are always available to put our troops into harms way; they are always available for leaving a war zone.

    Those in Congress who claim they want the war ended, yet feel compelled to keep funding it, are badly misguided. They either are wrong in their assessment that cutting funds would hurt the troops, or they need to be more honest about supporting a policy destined to dramatically increase the size and scope of this misadventure in the Middle East. Rest assured one can be patriotic and truly support the troops by denying funds to perpetuate and spread this ill-advised war.

    The sooner we come to this realization, the better it will be for all of us.


    If we are really interested in supporting our troops then we must stop manufacturing wars where good men and women bleed and die on the battlefield or in their
    bathtubs while the rest of us sit at home and watch NCIS.

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