The bosses are sleeping! Wake them up!
When the government of a democracy decides to fight a war all citizens eligible to vote are complicit in that decision. Monies spent on war should not be deferred, forcing future taxpayers to pay the bill. They will not have had a say in the matter. More importantly, transferring war expenditures onto the public debt turns voters into enablers. They are telling politicians that it is OK that no immediate consequences of war decisions will be felt by anyone except the precious few who pledged in advance to bear them: our soldiers, their families and their friends.
Shame on the bosses! Wake them up!
This diary is both a justification and a plea to wake up the voting aged citizens of the United States by putting a question to them directly: "Do you want this war?" --- and putting teeth into the question.
If they want it they will pay for it.
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