If you don’t want to screw up the coming beautiful Christmas holidays for a lot of American civilian employees of the Department of Defense and their families by taking away these people’s income, then you had better support US military aggression by backing the emergency supplemental funding bill. The Pentagon is beating the drums again for what the department has the gall to call "the global war on terror." The tom-tom beat, however, gets weaker and weaker with dwindling numbers of Americans back on the Old Sod ready to put on the war paint and gather round the campfire to do a battle dance in preparation for acts of aggression that have already cost too Americans and too many foreign innocents their lives or their health.
The Pentagon press secretary, Geoff Morrell, outlined the scare tactics to reporters in Washington yesterday for them to give back to their audiences, saying the Department of Defense will begin notifying about 200,000 civilian employees and contractors. He said:
"We can no longer afford their services and that, absent additional funding, they will be furloughed or temporarily laid off within a matter of weeks."
Geoff Morrell apparently had a premonition of how the announcement might be interpreted because he tried to head off any talk of "scare tactics" at the gap. He said:
"These are the facts. We are not out to scare anybody. We are not out to issue propaganda. We are out to adequately fund our troops who are in battle right now, and we are only dealing with the facts here."
Defense Department Report
The price tag on the emergency supplemental funding bill is $178 billion. Oh, my god, what a criminal waste of American money! The Washington Post reported on the Pentagon’s call, with the possibility for readers to respond to the report. One reaction was "About time. Let's replace them with 200,000 teachers, doctors, and/or forest rangers."Another contributor said, "Take a big chunk of that $$ and give it to our Iraqi war veterans." And yet another wrote: "Give us the money or we'll set Tiny Tim's Christmas tree on fire."
Washington Post article
When faith in America falters, it’s good to look at all sides of a story like this and the reactions of all kinds of Americans to it. There are so many good, decent people in the United States that it’s a shame that people pretending to be Americans and the US government have been able to commit crimes in their name. It’s time for those decent Americans from sea to shining sea and beyond to take back our country!