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Tags:  Boeing, Pentagon, Raytheon, Super Committee

Faithfully Protecting and Defending the Military Industrial Complex

Oh wait. You thought the Congressional Super Committee was empowered to come up with a balanced, no-nonsense solution to the growing U.S. debt crisis? Possibly so, but given the constituents on the much lauded committee it appears that their background modus operandi is to figure out all cuts to be made without touching the Pentagon’s war chest.  You can bet social programs will be first on the chopping block, and cuts in military spending will not even make it to the table.

In the past ten years since the CIA and Mossad teamed up members of the Bush cabinet and World Trade Center complex owner Larry Silverstein to start the military adventures in Afghanistan and Iraq, war spending doubled as Americans were put to work on our last remaining truly American manufacturing industry–making bombs and the airplanes to carry them.

Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower had it right when he warned in his farewell address to the nation about the concentration of power in the Pentagon. Between our hawkish spending tastes and our yearly cash obeisance to Israel for our military positioning in the Middle East, the Pentagon budget has dwarfed all else.

Don’t look to the Obama appointments to the super committee to change the equation. U.S. Democratic Senator Patty Murray, co-chair of the recently created debt committee, may have voted against the Iraq war, but she has supported every funding initiative ever since to keep American kids stuck and bleeding in both quagmires. As Washington State’s main Federal representative, the “Mom in Tennis Shoes” proudly wears her “Boeing First” T-shirt, and Boeing has happily kept Murray out of serious re-election trouble ever since.

Indeed, the six senators and six congressmen have one thing in common: they represent not only corporate interests from their respective states, but the main corporations in the states they represent are each military contractors, including Lockheed Martin, Raytheon Corp., General Dynamics, Boeing, and eight others. Collectively, the members of the debt committee have been tasked with eliminating $1.2 trillion in federal spending, while having taken in millions in campaign contributions from the various military contractors among their respective constituencies.

It would appear then that the committee’s first aim is to protect against any cuts in defense spending as a part of the trimming process, which leaves very little wiggle room for them to maneuver in unless they attack social programs with a vengeance.

Get ready for it.

The only true bipartisan spirit of agreement in the committee and in the congress and the senate seems to be a warm fuzzy reverence for making war, not love.

Proudly written by Richard Mann, Sovereign Funding, Structured Settlement Guest Blogger