Militarization of Life
Headline for legislation passed by the House last week to reinstate pay-as-you-go (paygo) statutes read, "Bill is Passed to Combat U.S. Deficit."
It seems all areas of U.S. life are now being militarized. If legislators combat the deficit, does this make them warriors? Will it go as well as our wars on crime, drugs and poverty?
Maybe there is another approach, other than fighting. Is it our rhetoric that needs fixing, or our approach to problems? Maybe both.
It seems all areas of U.S. life are now being militarized. If legislators combat the deficit, does this make them warriors? Will it go as well as our wars on crime, drugs and poverty?
Maybe there is another approach, other than fighting. Is it our rhetoric that needs fixing, or our approach to problems? Maybe both.
Labels: drugs, legislators as warriors, poverty, war on deficit, wars on crime
posted by rangeragainstwar at 11:59 AM
1 Comments:
when gerald ford talked about the efforts to curb runaway inflation (which was caused by fighting 15 years of vietnam on credit cards, or as lbj said "guns 'n' buttah, bitchez") as the moral equivalent of war,, my first reaction was to say to myself:
so, their measures are going to be violent, brutal and depraved?
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