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the drain on social resources that is the military budget--particularly if you put aside the charlatanry and count the (republican) wars is enormous. so is the entirely unnecessary surveillance system that had metastized since 2001, largely unco-ordinated and unaccountable to anyone which was detailed in the washington post over the winter. what makes these areas difficult to cut is basically that they are the conservative patronage system par excellence. military spending was the backbone of reagan's military keynesianism, which was the reality behind all that supply-side bullshit.
until the right is willing to stop protecting the grotesque levels of expenditure on the military and put it on the table, there is nothing whatsoever serious about anything said about fiscal responsibility or debt or anything else.
all it's about is republicans trying to focus cuts on systems that they assume will damage the democrats and not themselves.
plutocratic faction fighting as usual.
btw dk doesn't understand that a state is not a giant human being. that says nothing about the nature of the state. at all. the only contact that position has with the empirical world is by way of dk himself, who i assume exists empirically and empirically cannot get his head around the fact that the state is not a giant human being.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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