Denmark Vesey: #1 Song On The Military Industrial Complex Charts: "Get Money. Fugg Bitches. Get Money. Fugg Bitches."

Wednesday, January 06, 2010

#1 Song On The Military Industrial Complex Charts: "Get Money. Fugg Bitches. Get Money. Fugg Bitches."

In World War II, the cost per troop was less than $100,000 in 2007 dollars. By contrast, the Iraq war is costing upward of $400,000 per troop.

Who's getting that money?

3 comments:

CNu said...: suburban sprawl was and is;

"the greatest mis-allocation of resources the world has ever known."

These unwinnable resource invasions being fought in the name of the American people are being fought in a futile and utterly irrational effort to prolong and sustain what is thermodynamically unsustainable.

Why?

Just as with the long-term policy/program/law/law enforcement regime that drove suburban sprawl in the first place - follow the money trail - and you too will come to know specifically who profits from these undemocratic enterprises.; Jan 6, 2010, 3:43:00 PM
Denmark Vesey said...: ""the greatest mis-allocation of resources the world has ever known."

Nah.

Big ass obese Americans eating 160 pounds of chicken, beef and pork each year is the greatest mis-allocation of resources the world has ever known.; Jan 6, 2010, 3:53:00 PM
CNu said...: FAIL!!!

Silly rabbit...,

pause,

rewind,

consider;

What's on the plate, is a teensy-weensy subset of what's in the house, where the house is located, how one gets to and from the house to obtain that teensy-weensy subset of what one consumes on the plate.

Now,

I know

that you know

that I know

why you struggle so diligently (but hopelessly) to resist CNu's efforts to bring the Big Picture into focus Beelzebub.

Cause the very instant that the Big Picture comes into focus, it's immediately and indisputably obvious that your whole and entire hyper-consumptive steez is cold busted for its root cause contributions to the very evils you daily pretend to resist.

That's why a negro is compelled to argue with you Lucifer.

All the evil you.pretend.to.decry is perpetrated in the name of sustaining your unsustainable - and so you imagine - non-negotiable way.of.life.; Jan 6, 2010, 4:21:00 PM

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