http://americanstew.net/index.php?topic=29104.0
Bullshit. America is fucked because of presidents like Reagan and Obama. They do have a lot in common. Both are warmongering presidents that have acted as CEOs for the Military-Industrial complex.
WAR MONGERS
Reagan:
“With virtually all of American business clamoring for an increase in military spending, the [Reagan] Administration responded by initiating the biggest sustained peacetime buildup in U.S. history. Over [Fiscal Year] 1980-85, real military spending would increase 39 percent, while national defense budget authority would increase 5 3 percent. As a share of GNP, military outlays rose from 5.2 to 6.6 percent; as a share of the federal budget, they climbed from 23 to 27 percent. Significantly, the Reagan military budget was increasingly weapons- driven...”http://www3.niu.edu/~td0raf1/history468/apr0401.htm
A striking example of this was defense spending on strategic weapons. Contrary to Reagan's repeated claim that the United States had "unilaterally disarmed" during the 1970s, there had in fact been a substantial modernization and expansion of U.S. strategic forces during that period. In 1970, the United States had 4,000 strategic warheads. By the time Carter left office, it had 9,000 and the newer forces were substantially more accurate than the ones they replaced. Reagan inherited a strategic force capable of delivering, with a nearly 8o percent kill probability, more than 3,660 nuclear warheads against a wide range of "aiming points" in the Soviet Union, even after a massive Soviet first strike.
Over its first term, the [Reagan] Administration's nuclear buildup rose at nearly three times the rate of the overall defense program. Over fiscal 1980-85, budget authority for strategic weapons grew from $9.4 to $35.3 billion, an increase of 276 percent.
Overall, by FY 1985 the various Reagan budget cuts in social programs reduced social spending by about 10 percent, below the levels projected under prior policy (roughly half of what the Administration. initially sought); aggregate cuts on the nonmilitary side of the budget totaled about $175 billion over 1982-85. Especially given the emphasis on cuts in low-income programs (which, while accounting for only 10 percent of the budget, sustained one-third of all spending cuts during Reagan’s first term), their impact was profoundly regressive. Approximately half the benefit reductions achieved during the Administration’s first three years fell on households with annual incomes of less than $10,000; approximately 70 percent fell on households making less than $20,000. Households with incomes in excess of $80,000 carried only 1 percent of the burden….
Reagan was a militaristic sick fuck. Of course, he never was in the military. More important, instead of being a leader for world peace he led America and the world back to the Neanderthal age.
Obama:
Obama is no fucking better (though it won the Noble Peace Prize, go figure). He just as much a warmonger as Reagan, worse perhaps since he is following in George Bush’s crimes-against-humanity footsteps. He’s still got two wars going and loves the killing taking place in Afghanistan, especially those killer drones.
As many as 2,043 people, mostly civilians, were killed in US drone attacks in northwestern parts of Pakistan during the last five years, a research has revealed.http://www.indiatalkies.com/2011/01/drones-killed-2043-people-civilians-pak-years.html
According to the report, 134 drone attacks were reported in Pakistan’s FATA region in 2010 alone, inflicting 929 causalities. December 17 was the deadliest day of 2010 when three drone attacks killed 54 people in Khyber Agency. Two separate [drone] missile strikes carried out on January 6 KILLED 35 PEOPLE in Sanzalai village of North Waziristan.
When a nut-case America kills 6 and wounds a congress woman it’s a NATIONAL TRAGEDY that brings out the president for a big memorial broadcast internationally. When America kills 35 people it’s good business. American workers build the missiles and the drones. And the civilian killed, well they’re just collateral damage. Of course we kill a few of the bad guys—the freedom fighters fighting the Covenant coalition troops who invaded their homeland 10 years ago and have been an occupation force ever since.
By the way, Obama has shown that he can be as much a criminal against humanity as Bush:
“The drone program had a busy year in 2009; under the Obama administration, there were 51 reported strikes in Pakistan’s tribal areas, compared with 45 during the entire administration of George W. Bush.”
http://www.newamerica.net/publications/policy/the_year_of_the_drone
ILLEGAL ALIEN LOVERS
Reagan:
We all know about Reagan’s signing the first traitorous 1986 illegal-alien amnesty bill, which gave 3 million illegal immigrants amnesty, but you don’t want forget about the millions of anchor babies that have been replicating ever since. Of course the bill was supposed to outlaw hiring illegals but their was no way the cheap-labor Republicans and Marxist Democrats were going to enforce that. Even the U.S. military recruits and hire illegals. Each year there’s that bill celebration of all the aliens in the military receiving U.S. citizenship.
Reagan said in front of the Statue of Liberty,
"The legalization provisions in this act will go far to improve the lives of a class of individuals who now must hide in the shadows, without access to many of the benefits of a free and open society. Very soon many of these men and women will be able to step into the sunlight and, ultimately, if they choose, they may become Americans.”
They’ll never be Americans. Only aliens living in America. But you can see why members of the Hispanic Nation, which is on the verge of taking over America, would love Reagan. A recent Barrio San Diego Union-Tribune explained that there is a bid to rename the San Diego-Coronado Bridge after Reagan. Guess by whom? Vince Vasquez, economist with San Diego's National University System Institute for Policy Research. Surprise, surprise!
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/jan/31/campaign-wants-coronado-bridge-renamed-reagan/
Like Bush, Reagan’s loyalty to the Hispanic Nation was greater than his loyalty to America. Like Obama he was a phony, a political actor. Remember when he fired all those American air-traffic controllers. Well he could have sent all those fucking illegal aliens back home. But what did Reagan care? He lived on a big fucking ranch faraway from the graffiti and the Hispanics criminals terrifying once-American communities.
Supposedly there will be a big celebration during the Reagan Centennial Celebration. I’ll skip that farce. Why? Here’s why:
“There are indications that in a few more decades, in 2050 to be exact, it is predicted that the Hispanic population in America will actually triple in size and will then be around 133 million strong. This number will bump up the percentage of the Hispanic population to 30% of the total population of the US. This kind of a projection may be attributed to the fact that the number of Hispanics in the US twenty years ago was only at 22 million, which makes it a little less than half of what their population is today. With the current rate of growth that the minority is showing and with the Hispanic community in the US ranking second in the world, second only to Mexico, it is then but reasonable for this projection to be made.”http://www.hispanicpopulation.net/
At that number Hispanics will control the political process because they don’t have to be the majority to do that. White Americans are still in the majority but they are always split down the middle—half Republican, half Democrat. Whoever wins must have the Hispanics on board. That was proven during the last election. Both presidential candidates were pro-illegal aliens. And look at the present president: a Kenyon. In other words, Americans have lost control of not only their government but the future of their nation.
Obama:
We all know Obama can’t wait to sign the Dream Act, which would provide permanent residency to illegal and deportable alien students who graduate from US high schools—schooling and other social services paid for by the American taxpayer. Already thousands of children of illegal aliens and children who are in the country illegally are getting an education on the taxpayer’s dime. Illegal alien student in California pay instate tuition, where as American students from other states would have to pay out of state tuition.
In addition Obama is looking forward to passing an amnesty bill, basically a surrender to the Hispanic Nation. He wants to be remember as the president who served aliens, which he himself is one. He cares nothing for Americans. It’s a soft revolution that is occurring, and by the end of the century America will be no more. And Americans will be aliens in their own land.
So in regard to serving on the side of illegal aliens there is no difference between Reagan and Obama. Reagan helped continue the alien takeover of America and Obama will most likely finish the job.
ACTOR/PREACHER/BULLSHITTER
Well Reagan was an actor and Obama has the silver tongue of a preacher. Both have the gift of gab to make Americans feel confident that everything is going to be just fine. Well, for millions of Americans everything stinks. Just consider far America has come since Reagan, downward that is. The Chinese communists are better at capitalism than we are. Except for food items, it’s hard as hell to find something that made in America. I drive an American brand-named car but...
“Chevrolet’s Aveo has the makings of comic gold. It’s the cheapest car sold in America. It’s from GM, ever the stooge to straight men Honda and Toyota. And get this: despite being the first vehicle to feature in Chevy’s ubiquitous “An American Revolution” campaign, the Aveo is built in… wait for it… Bupyong, South Korea. Ba-dum ching!
From where else would the Aveo hail? Daewoo is responsible for its design, manufacture, and export (under such varied monikers as the Suzuki Swift+ and Holden Barina). Chevy’s sole Aveo contribution: the bow-tie badge. But let’s give The General some credit. While Ford and DCX have ignored the fast-growing subcompact segment, ol’ Number Two has been building Aveos since 2004. Well, sort of.”
http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2007/06/chevrolet-aveo-review/
That’s pretty sad.
And what about all that debt?
“WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- The United States' $1.5 trillion budget deficit is leading the country to possible default on its loans, Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, said Saturday.
The Treasury Department has warned national debt will hit the $14.3 trillion mark this spring, which puts the United States at risk of defaulting on loans, The Hill newspaper said.”
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/02/05/GOP-says-US-debt-unsustainable/UPI-76061296908665/
Man o man, that’s a lot of red ink.
There are other commonalities shared by Reagan and Obama. Both love of the limelight and hobnobbing with the wealthy. Both have their boogiemen, communism for Reagan, terrorist for Obama. Both are willing to support dictators, unless the people bring down the government. Both love missile shields. Both like to pretend they're good ol' boys. Both are shown throwing the football. Americans are a real soft touch for Joe the plumber types, even if Joe's just acting. George Bush took the good ol' boy routine all the way to the White House. The country is in worse shape after Reagan, and it will be in even worse shape after Obama. Both make me sick.
I’m going to let Alfred W. McCoy have the last scary word about the Reagan-Obama America. I’ve selected a few items from his article “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire. I rate it PG. I.e., don’t read it to the kids, they’ll be living the bad new soon enough.
The demise of the United States as the global superpower could come far more quickly than anyone imagines. If Washington is dreaming of 2040 or 2050 as the end of the American Century, a more realistic assessment of domestic and global trends suggests that in 2025, just 15 years from now, it could all be over except for the shouting.Read the rest for yourself:
But have no doubt: when Washington's global dominion finally ends, there will be painful daily reminders of what such a loss of power means for Americans in every walk of life. As a half-dozen European nations have discovered, imperial decline tends to have a remarkably demoralizing impact on a society, regularly bringing at least a generation of economic privation. As the economy cools, political temperatures rise, often sparking serious domestic unrest.
The American Century, proclaimed so triumphantly at the start of World War II, will be tattered and fading by 2025, its eighth decade, and could be history by 2030.
Ordinary Americans, watching their jobs head overseas, have a more realistic view than their cosseted leaders. An opinion poll in August 2010 found that 65% of Americans believed the country was now “in a state of decline.
Similarly, American leadership in technological innovation is on the wane. In 2008, the U.S. was still number two behind Japan in worldwide patent applications with 232,000, but China was closing fast at 195,000, thanks to a blistering 400% increase since 2000. A harbinger of further decline: in 2009 the U.S. hit rock bottom in ranking among the 40 nations surveyed by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation when it came to “change” in “global innovation-based competitiveness” during the previous decade. Adding substance to these statistics, in October China's Defense Ministry unveiled the world's fastest supercomputer, the Tianhe-1A, so powerful, said one U.S. expert, that it “blows away the existing No. 1 machine” in America.
Add to this clear evidence that the U.S. education system, that source of future scientists and innovators, has been falling behind its competitors. After leading the world for decades in 25- to 34-year-olds with university degrees, the country sank to 12th place in 2010. The World Economic Forum ranked the United States at a mediocre 52nd among 139 nations in the quality of its university math and science instruction in 2010. Nearly half of all graduate students in the sciences in the U.S. are now foreigners, most of whom will be heading home, not staying here as once would have happened. By 2025, in other words, the United States is likely to face a critical shortage of talented scientists.
To check China and extend its military position globally, Washington is intent on building a new digital network of air and space robotics, advanced cyberwarfare capabilities, and electronic surveillance. Military planners expect this integrated system to envelop the Earth in a cyber-grid capable of blinding entire armies on the battlefield or taking out a single terrorist in field or favela. By 2020, if all goes according to plan, the Pentagon will launch a three-tiered shield of space drones -- reaching from stratosphere to exosphere, armed with agile missiles, linked by a resilient modular satellite system, and operated through total telescopic surveillance.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/12/05/opinion/main7121029.shtml
Well that’s progress. And we all thought maybe humanity—led by America—might change its destructive ways in the 21st century. No luck. America will tank economically, culturally, and socially, and there’s a good chance that it will contribute to the world ending with a bang rather than a whimper.
So what in the fuck are Reagan and Obama smiling about on the front of Time magazine?
Carpe diem!
Time to flush it.
