Thursday, January 05, 2023

McCarthyism and the Giant Deal

 Ironically my sources of local and national news have become more limited from the same world protagonist about whom I am about to write.  Defense contractors have become leeches on the American economy.  Largely they bypass the Capitalist free market and hawk their wares directly in the swamp.  America is socialist, and by that I mean our government pays a large percentage of citizens' incomes directly or indirectly.  Our means of production certainly is not owned by the people, and we do employ a private labor force.  That means we are not socialist, but what is the system of government when the government pays for most of the public's needs?  Indirectly our needs are met by paying us salaries from which we purchase our necessities.  A government employee is an example of this.  Broadly they consider themselves free, but in reality their sustenance is provided by the government, whose resources once came from taxpayers.  Considering the United States on paper is thirty trillion dollars in debt, America lost sight of its functioning economy with blows from the "Big Short," the financial crisis of 2008, and later from the outbreak of the coronavirus.  Our government keeps spending money we don't have neglecting the system once that provided America's revenue.  Has the free market system of Capitalism really worked for us?  I believe it has, and while necessarily John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnagie,  Cornelius Vanderbilt, and J.P. Morgan all manipulated our system to its own favor with money to begin with, once the American Dream was the possibility of creating ones sustenance from intelligence, wisdom, devotion, reverence, and diligent work.  Free meant America provided social mobility and embraced competition in her financial ranks.  Sadly no longer is this true.  We have become once again a nation of trusts, and large families hold most of the wealth.  The percentage of income held by a group of billionaires has stymied our once free market system.  Why and how has this happened?  Who was in a position to profit most from a global pandemic having all ready established themselves as an online retail powerhouse?  Suddenly Americans can't go out of the house, and how do they survive without brick and mortar shopping?  With hundreds of thousands of dying Americans what industry is in place to provide a remedy for this death?  Unless smaller, grassroots, indigenous, main street businesses are enabled to thrive again, America never will be the same.  We will continue to be dependent upon our government who no longer is concerned with small business.  America has squeezed small businesses out of the formula, and now the parasites feed directly from the pond in Washington, DC.  The public is bypassed, and what little is left of our tax dollars are bid upon by lobbyists and their corporate sponsors.  The most ruthless of these lately are defense industries, who reply upon global unrest and war as their sustenance.  For their massive array of highly technological products to seem relevant, we must hate one another only want to fight.  Their focus has become ISR, fittingly just a re-arrangement of the acronym for the Internal Revenue Service.  Once this government agency was the citizen's nemesis.  Now it is "Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance."  Not only has America's free market been hobbled by large family trusts, we are being assaulted by carbon and electronic footprints of the defense industry.  (not to mention the true source of Covid 19)  Jokingly I suggest that the American military no longer needs active duty troops on the ground, nor do they even need to fire their weapons.  The targeting, networking, and strategic systems upon which they now are reliant, consisting largely of airborne electromagnetic sensors, are enough to kill the enemy with their residual refuse.  The effects of those previously illegal frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum historically are well-documented.  One only has to read a few National Institute of Health articles online to understand that infrared, ultra-violet, and millimeter wave radiation all are dangerous to the human body.  Our eyes, our skin, and our organs are under attack as long as our military uses and practices with these complex electromagnetic systems.  There are so many sensor arrays manufactured by L3/Harris it is difficult to keep up with them.  Every time a military aircraft strafes my home those infrared sensors are observing me taking a piss.  Talk about taking a piss, Kevin McCarthy.  What could be more glorious in a resurrection of the ideals of American democracy, than a Trumpian "Big Lie" supporter and election denier NOT getting elected as Speaker of the House?