[Vision2020] American arrogance and arms accounting (was: NPR)

[Joe Campbell]

Right. Blame a generation. That's helpful.

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Donovan Arnold <
donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I just think a lot of the fraud and financial crisis is the result of the
> Babyboomers. You cannot really tag it on any one particular political group,
> or one person. Babyboomers have spend more money than any other generation
> before it, including those that fought WWII. They have indebted the nation
> beyond the capability of future generations to pay back and live any type of
> quality of life. They have burned more fuel then all the previous generation
> before or after combined. I won't even get into the environmental disasters
> they have plagued the world over with. They have behaved as greedy pigs at
> the trough. With the trough being the fruits of labor of previous and future
> generations.
>
> Donovan Arnold
>
> --- On *Wed, 3/30/11, Joe Campbell <philosopher.joe at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Joe Campbell <philosopher.joe at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] American arrogance and arms accounting (was: NPR)
> To: "Kenneth Marcy" <kmmos1 at frontier.com>
> Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 3:06 PM
>
> Thanks, Ken. This is exactly why I can't take criticisms of NPR seriously.
> How many times does Roger complain about about how we don't have enough
> money? Yet how little does he talk about the kinds of waste that you note
> below, wastes from the military and monetary losses caused by unchecked
> members of the business community? If it were really about MONEY we'd get
> criticisms of more than NPR and education. And the fact is once you do away
> with adequate news sources and gut American education it is going to be a
> lot harder for the average folk to spot the lies and fallacies of the tea
> baggers.
>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1 at frontier.com<http://us.mc381.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=kmmos1@frontier.com>
> > wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 30 March 2011 13:05:19 Joe Campbell wrote:
> > We're not spending too much on NPR! We spend more bombing Libya in one
> day
> > than a year's worth of NPR! I don't see any good arguments supporting
> your
> > case. That's all.
>
> American aggression overseas, however much it may be in aid of moral
> causes,
> is unmatched by its awful armaments accounting at home. If one wishes to be
> aware of the most egregious levels of American aggression, look at the
> artless
> accounting appeasement that has continued for decades among those who claim
> accounting and auditing expertise and the American military establishment.
>
> The military-industrial complex of contractors and their aides,
> accomplices,
> and accessories have failed to produce understandable, comprehensive,
> audited
> financial statements for American military activities for as long as anyone
> can
> remember. This financial and managerial reporting void should be a source
> of
> perpetual embarrassment to anyone who claims to have any sense of federal
> fiscal or taxpayer concern.
>
>
> Ken
>
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