In the 1980s former Reagan Budget Director David Stockman wrote a book about the rational on the right for deficit spending. He said that it was for the purpose of defeating the social programs that the conservative right wing didn't approve of including Social Security. Since Bush came into the White House this agenda including star wars has gone full tilt. He also scuttled the Clinton treatment of North Korea which had as their response to start up their Nuclear programs again. And then there was the test ban and Nuclear Prolifferation Treaty which North Korea, a country the size of New Jersey, is now ignoring. The right wing constantly asks how much it costs and points to such issues with health care and other social issues that make this country livable. That is fraud and is no more than a coverup for a culture and a way of life that they find repugnant. Here are some figures on how many social programs GWB will be able to ignore through the device of warfare and its costs. Push your social agenda with war? These are the people who call themselves "pro-life"?
Next they will be pushing coal slurry and nuclear power which exhausts the acquafers in a water problem that will eventually make the energy problem look simple by comparison. You can stay and home but you cannot refuse to drink water. How about simple sewage problems? They almost ruined Europe and killed many of the European cities here before the use of water saved them but destroyed the river and lake systems for a time. Nuclear power is still a problem with waste, more sewage, except a swamp won't help and the safety time is not a couple of months but 25,000 years. The third place they go is the degradation of the language through mis-labeling. GWB is doing a job on that and his defenders are following suit. Meanwhile see how much your state taxes will go up with the war on Iraq? REH > www.nationalpriorities.org/iraq.pdf > > >
