National Security, Money and Debt

["John Gelles" <johng@xxxxxxxxxx>]

    This weekend on CSPAN the Senate Armed Forces
    Committee took testimony from the top four military
    officers in the US Government. They explained what
    they had planned to protect America within the para-
    meters of a budget they accepted as all that taxpayers
    can be asked to pay..

    With such a sick and crazy view of what America can
    afford, there was no real money to bring true economic
    security to our people (whose insecure lives the military
    defend often at the cost of their own) or to the Russian
    people or the Chinese, people on whom we are counting
    to be civilized, rational and secure enough to avoid nuclear
    or devasting war.

    These were four, four-star types, the top military minds
    in America, whose brains had been washed clean of how
    we financed and won World War II.

    The obious villain is Congress and the economics
    profession. The Congress not only controls the purse
    strings (which they open only at the last minute to avoid
    total defeat in a great war), but deliberate perpetuate
    the myth that we cannot afford all we can produce.
    They perpetuate the myth to protect their position as
    men of super-importance in a democracy that has been
    lulled to sleep.

    The time and place to get across to the American
    people that we can afford to win the wars against
    poverty, unemployment, global warming and
    terrorism, all at once, but that, although we have
    the experience of WWII's fiat money proving this,
    we also have the implications of Hiroshima, Nagasaki
    and terrorist deeds, to prove we cannot afford to
    recover from a nuclear holocaust.

    Everything we are doing today at the federal level
    to bring common sense to bear on threats to every-
    one, to convince the American people "we will leave
    no one behind", cries out for this PKT forum to unite
    -- and to tell the people how we can afford victory
    over terror and want, and also afford to assist, (with
    the things that money can buy,)  Russia, China and
    India to be all that they can be!

    Benjamin Franklin advised us once, we shall all hang
    together or we shall all hang separately.

    Is is not time for us to advise that we shall all spend
    and save together to end economics crippled by debt
    and taxes or we shall burn together wondering why
    we needed money when we had everything money
    can buy in our grasp.

        John Gelles