It is said that if you build a better mousetrap,
the world will beat a path to your
door. But if you.re a big honking military
contractor and you build a mousetrap
that doesn’t even work, the White House,
the Pentagon, and Congress will beat a
path to your door and dump unlimited billions of
our tax dollars on your front stoop.
This is the serendipitous situation for Boeing,
Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, TRW, and other huge
weapons outfits that are wallowing in money thrown
at them by Washington to build a convoluted high-tech
mousetrap they.re calling National Missile
Defense (NMD). Sounds imposing, but it’s nothing
more than the supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
dream that caught Ronald Reagan’s fancy 20 years
ago: Star Wars.
Most people assumed that Reagan’s fantasy of
deploying an umbrella of space satellites firing
lasers to zap incoming missiles hurled at us by
our enemies had faded away
when Ronnie drifted off into
the sunset, but no.
Pentagon contractors
and their puppets
in Washington
have quietly kept
the program alive
with our tax dollars,
and now its back, bigger than
life, in the form of
NMD, being furiously
pushed by George
Bush, Dick Cheney,
Don Rumsfeld, and a
horde of corporate
lobbyists. It’s got a new name and
a new package, but it’s
the same old silliness
with the same old
problems, namely: It doesn’t
work, isn’t needed,
is too damn
costly, and makes our
nation weaker rather than
stronger. [ read more ]
What the hell's happening here? Why is my bank in the tank? And my house and job? And my retirement money? Even my state's teetering on the brink of broke! Who did this to us? Fair questions, but we're not getting honest answers. 
