The Rust Belt

Everyone who grows up in Fayetteville understands Fayettenam.  WE knew the 82nd Airborne was here, and they are training to deploy at short notice anywhere in the world.  That presents a dynamic of its own, but should civilians who live in Fayetteville but don't work at Fort Bragg assimilate the same daily routine?  Is the daily routine of active duty military personnel the same as civilians in the private sector?  The Civil Service (or Deep State) is active at Fort Bragg.  These are civilian employees that work on post.  How do their job requirements compare to active duty soldiers?  I would think it is obvious, that only certain specialized groups within the Civil Service are akin to active duty military.  Over the past few decades the privatization of many governmental functions has been recommended.  This has crept into the United States military, so the Civil Service has melded more with the active duty military.  This includes trainings of all kind.  The trend was lobbied strongly in Washington, and private owners and investors are the ones who benefit.  The Defense Contractor industry was flourishing in Fayetteville before President Biden pulled troops out of Afghanistan.  This "forever" war, promulgated by the Bush Clan, ceased and within weeks rule by the Taliban was restored.  Years of investment to try and change governmental or militaristic rule in the Middle East was rendered moot.  The same thing occurred when American troops left Iraq.  Much of their equipment was left behind and insurgents quickly organized and became ISIS or ISIL.  They began to use our own fighting equipment against us.  The wisdom in retrospect would have been to listen to Osama Bin Laden.  Only he asked that the foreigners get out of their countries, but the oil was to valuable and important to the Bush family.  Bin Laden offered his services to Saudi Arabia, and the royals declined his help.  This and bitter memories of the invading Americans began Arabic terrorism against the United States.  The lower Saudi royals were the ones responsible for the 9/11 attacks.  The United States has a disturbing history of creating conflict under false pretenses, especially in the Middle East.  The Viet Nam War was such an event.  Very specific contingencies of people wanted this war, and only was it for their personal financial gain.  The Defense Industry as a whole is the backbone of this atrocity creating conflict to sell their weapons.  How many healthy American boys and men were slaughtered in Viet Nam to sell Bell Helicopters?  Many Americans do not have the stomach to understand this evil, and they deny such history, because it interferes with their love of America.  This love really is a love for what America has represented since her inception, an escape from rule by a monarch.  Religious freedom was a major part of America's emerging philosophy.  Immigrants came to the New World so they could worship the God of their choice in the way they chose.  Robber Barons always have been a crucial fabric in the tapestry of America, and common citizens learned to respect the ruling clans because they recognized and supported average citizens.  Without these average working citizens, a Free Market where laborers are paid for their services, quickly we would revert to any of the other forms of economy and government including Communism.  Socialism bluntly never had a chance because of the greed of those in power.  What is happening today with the Trump Regime is no different.  It should be brutally apparent that our current elected leaders are seditious traitors and care not for the majority of the American people.  It is because this Free Market system all ready has been converted to a combination of Totalitarianism and Kleptocracy.  Our leaders, including Donald Trump, are stealing from the people, because to them the people don't matter.  The oligarchs in control have all of the money, so there is no need for the people, a Free Market, or sharing of their wealth.  They have amassed so much fortune in the last few decades the system for accruing this wealth no longer is needed.  We are alarmingly close having regressed backwards to a feudal system.  Any of these forms of government are the antithesis of America and what our founding fathers created in the United States Constitution.  We, as a nation, accepted the ruling clans who built America and their own personal fortunes.  I do not think it could be said these prominent families were contemptuous of the immigrant population of America.  Instead they knew they were the key to their fortunes providing goods and services in a new nation of freedom and opportunity.  This was Capitalism at its best, and America has seen it ebb and flow.  Today we are at a low point on every front.  We don't produce quality products.  Instead we produce the most cheaply made product and sell it at a great profit.  This includes beef, cow's milk, eggs, chicken, and pork.  Whose idea was it to pay American farmers NOT to produce fresh healthy food?  They were and are destroyers of America.  We have no real products, factories, or GNP.  We import most of our products from India and Asia with their cheap labor.  Would it not be possible again to invigorate these traditional industries like steel, timber, furniture, textiles, and agriculture?  The answer is no because those money movers on Wall Street also don't care about Americans.  Only do they want to exploit our economy as best and quickly as possible.  I am sure that many of these oligarchs now are of foreign origin.  A President who only knows how to build gilded ballrooms, golf clubs and hotels for the rich is misplaced.  It is time to oust this regime.  If we adhere to the same methodology they are using, it will mean civil or revolutionary revolt.  Congress, as it were, is not capable of discarding this joke administration.