Thread: Pax Americana

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One in ten Americans rate the honesty and ethical standards of its members of Congress as very high or high. This puts the lawmaking body second lowest on a list of 22 professions measured -- higher only than car salespeople.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/159035/congress-retains-low-honesty-rating.aspx

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Obama Just Raised Taxes On The Middle Class | FDL News Desk

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2012 headlines were full of horrible depressing news: cuts on the federal, state, county and the city level. The nation was subjected to a full time diet of descriptions of cities agonizing over whether to cut libraries or sewage treatment, or of the city that, in one fell swoop, cut all its employees—from firefighters to garbage collectors— to minimum wage. Or the story of the governor who left the budget discussion to hide her tears over the cutting of hospice while one of her family members was in hospice dying. We have argued as a nation over whether teachers and firefighters are “greedy” because they want a cost of living raise as compared to other private employees who also don’t have dignity in their pay.

But in all these discussions the sacred cow in the middle of the room remains invisible and unmentioned: the Pentagon. Never in the same article that talks about the painful cuts being made to public services do we discuss that the Pentagon (and the debt from our wars) got about half of the discretionary US federal budget in 2012. In all the articles about the fiscal cliff and the prospect of the 10 percent across-the-board cut applying to the Pentagon, it is also never mentioned that our military budget dwarfs all others and is as large as the next 14 largest countries combined. Nor do we mention that it is five times that of China, the next largest military budget. So if we cut our military budget by 50 percent, we would still far outstrip all the other countries of the world. How much bigger do you personally feel it needs to be?

The Sacred Cow of American Defense Spending » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

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"Good evening, everybody. This here is Archie Bunker of 704 Hauser Street, veteran of the big war, speaking on behalf of guns for everybody. Now, question: what was the first thing that the Communists done when they took over Russia? Answer: gun control. And there’s a lot of people in this country want to do the same thing to us here in a kind of conspiracy, see. You take your big international bankers, they want to — whaddya call — masticate the people of this here nation like puppets on the wing, and then when they get their guns, turn us over to the Commies…

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Americans around the nation were shocked Friday as they heard about H.J.Res. 15. H.J.Res 15 proposes an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the Twenty-second Amendment. This would remove the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President. Rep. José Serrano (D- NY15) introduced the controversial joint resolution on Friday, the second day of the 2013 legislative session.

President Obama could get 3 terms if H.J.Res 15 abolishes term limits - Wilmington Elections 2012 | Examiner.com