Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Navy to deafen 15,900 whales and dolphins and kill 1,800 more

Military Keynesianism run amok!

Enough already with the out of control spending on weaponry. Show this to your Congressional representatives or economist friends if they ever tell you that, "that Keynesian stuff doesn't work."

We spend on military hardware without limit; there's mysteriously never a need to raise taxes, nor is there difficulty finding money to create these weapons systems.

Enough!

Spend on finding the cure for cancer, health care (not giving trillions to insurance companies so that we have...insurance), basic science, education, infrastructure.

This is sick. The U.S. military already has enough weaponry to kill all the life on this planet 10 times over. Why is it necessary to kill whales and dolphins in such huge numbers. Not cool, Navy...not cool.

Sign the petition to stop this madness now!

8 comments:

Pete said...

The only way the state can put more dollars into circulation is by spending them. Well, that means their spending will be spending that benefits those in the state, for example war.

"War is the health of the state." - Randolph Bourne

You may not like this, but that is the system we have. Deal with it.

John Zelnicker said...

Mike -- This is the first time I have sent a mass e-mail to a few dozen people. It's that important. This really is true madness.

And, Pete -- We will "deal with it" by changing it.

Pete said...

John:

And, Pete -- We will "deal with it" by changing it.

That's utopian. Shouldn't we rather work with what we have?

You sound like those who want to change our monetary system.

Colleem Jagger said...

I'm trying to find a source document/article that this petition is based on. I signed it, but I want to link to something else before I ask others to sign too. Can you help? Thank you.

John Zelnicker said...

Pete -- I don't want to change the system. I want to change the way the system supports the members of the system. From my pov we have one of the better systems, it is just misused and abused to reward the elites at the expense of the rest of us. The economy was humming along doing rather well, all things considered, before the neoliberals, starting with Reagan and Thatcher mostly, screwed things up.

Nothing utopian about it.

Agama said...

To Colleem, here's a link:http://www.phibetaiota.net/2012/07/john-steiner-9-july-deadlinus-navy-plans-to-kill-1800-whales-deafen-dolphins/

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Pete said...

John Zelnicker:

Pete -- I don't want to change the system. I want to change the way the system supports the members of the system.

The Fed doesn't support members of the system. The Fed supports SOME members of the system (banks, treasury) at the expense of other members of the system.

The only change you can make within this system is who gains at the expense of who.

From my pov we have one of the better systems, it is just misused and abused to reward the elites at the expense of the rest of us.

Didn't you know that this "rewards at the expense of others" was the design all along?

The economy was humming along doing rather well, all things considered, before the neoliberals, starting with Reagan and Thatcher mostly, screwed things up.

On the contrary, it was the rise of neo-socialist progressives in the early 20th century who screwed things up. Soon after the Great Depression occurred.