Priorities of a Corrupt Government

Not quite three weeks ago, President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. On Wednesday afternoon, he put his signature on the largest military spending plan in the history of the world.

Such is the plight of an agent of change in the city of stasis.

Months ago, Obama and his defense secretary, Robert Gates, outlined a bold overhaul of the Pentagon’s weaponry — and they succeeded in killing off the F-22 fighter and a costly new presidential helicopter. But defense contractors and their agents in Congress defied a veto threat and forced Obama to accept new engines for the F-35 fighter and lots of other things the military says it doesn’t want or need.

Just as we are close to passing a Health Care Bill that not only already is a windfall to Insurance Companies even before it is watered down twice more (once in the Senate and once in the House and Senate reconciliation…..

President Obama just signed the biggest Military Budget in world history….a budget that includes items that even the military does not want.

The cost of the House Health Care Bill over ten years is 890 billion dollars. It would have been about 80 billion less but the alleged “Fiscal Conservative” Blue Dogs who allegedly object to excess spending…..spiked the part of the bill that would have saved that money for the Public.

Yes, the folks who say that they are concerned about spending just made the Bill cost more. That more pretty much goes right into the InsCo’s coffers.

So….we have Fiscal Conservatives spending more of the taxpayers money to benefit the InsCo’s and an already obscenely bloated military buying things it does not want.

Instead of say, using that money to protect troops. Or bring them home.

While at the same time, we find out that more taxpayer money was paid to Hamad Karzai’s brother…the Drug Lord…through the CIA. When drug money is what is funding the people who are killing Americans. Who are only being killed because the Afghan’s refused to be occupied by yet another foreign power.

As their brothers and husbands rot in the allegedly former torture prison at Bagram….under the Detention Programs that are as direct a violation of the Human Rights we are allegedly in Afghanistan to impose on the allegedly barbarous Taliban….who we are assassinating with a drone program that the UN is now questioning as yet another American Human Rights violation

UNITED NATIONS – US drone strikes against suspected terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan could be breaking international laws against summary executions, the UN’s top investigator of such crimes said.

“The problem with the United States is that it is making an increased use of drones/Predators (which are) particularly prominently used now in relation to Pakistan and Afghanistan,” UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions Philip Alston told a press conference.

“My concern is that drones/Predators are being operated in a framework which may well violate international humanitarian law and international human rights law,” he said.

As the debate rages over whether we should send more troops to Afghanistan or not….because THEIR government is corrupt.

Whatever you may think of Obama….one thing is clear. He alone will not, absolutely NOT, be able to “turn the Titanic” of our corrupt, war mongering, Corporate Owned Government around without some kind of major shakeup of a corrupt system whose priority is enriching Corporations. Corporations who are just fine with ‘earning’ money of off the deaths of Americans who need health care, the deaths of Americans who volunteered to “keep America safe” at the risk of their own lives, and the death of the Afghan people.

The Corporate Corruption of America for the benefit of the merchants of death runs far to deep for a mere President to affect.

Just as much as we were literally sold a bill of goods that Obama would make more than cosmetic changes to this corrupt system, Obama was sold a bill of goods in thinking that the problems of the American Empire could be solved through working the system.

The fact that he was “forced” to sign a 680 billion dollar defense bill including things that the military does not want is just the latest proof of how deep the corruption runs. Whether Obama is a conscious tool of the corrupt or an unwitting one does not really matter.

Because either way he alone will not be able to change it…even if he wanted to.

America’s priorities, the priorities of the American people, no longer matter. That much has been made clear in the “transition of power” after the last election. The problems we face run far deeper than politics, and thus far deeper than any politician can solve.

Only The People can stop the madness.

Only the United People.