When the flow of money comes to a grinding halt, as it has presently in the USA, one must look to lessen the greatest expenditures and increase the best assets. It doesn’t take a prophet or an economic genius to realize that the biggest spender in the group of institutions that ride on tax payers backs is THE ARMY. I know that war is the most popular solution to any number of problems that arise among nations. Only a cursory glance at history will reveal that it is a dismal failure as the catalyst for positive change. Our books paint our story from the date of one war to another. We celebrate our blood letting nature with holidays, parades, anthems and awards. The simple fact is that war is an act that lowers whole societies to the bottom of the human moral ladder. One cannot do anything worse than kill another person. Having a good excuse does not make the act of war acceptable. Besides the fact that bellicose actions make us monsters, it is expensive to kill thy neighbor. In my lifetime, I have seen my country start two wars that had no purpose and led us to bestial acts that made us no better than amoral butchers, Vietnam and the current War on Terror.
It has always seemed that people are far more interested in keeping their wallets healthy than leading lives with true strength of character. As each wallet shrinks more every day, maybe we can rally our country to do something that would stop some of our useless spending and make us examples of right for generations to come. As someone who lives their life by the simple ethic of non-violence, I would personally recommend abolishing our armed services completely. They drain our economy more and more with each new conflagration. I know most citizens would cringe in fear without missiles, tanks and bully boys guarding our borders, but I do believe that the same youthful energy that leads people to join the army could be used for constructive, not destructive ends. With no Pentagon, no overpaid armchair generals, no yearly budget for instruments of murder, we could put the money into our pockets, our families futures and pay back the debt that hangs over us eternally from the atrocities of war. The end of the act of war would not only benefit our money supply, but would make us better as individuals and in the collective.
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