Pres. Obama Guts Orion Program; Moons Nation's Working Class

Creating American jobs in high tech and getting much materials production constructed for the Orion program increased to build a settlement on the moon would stimulate the economy better than bank bailouts. The work would be done in the United States more so than in Iraq or Afghanistan. Flunking that Moon exploration and scientific base construction was bad economic judgment

What is America's core economic agenda? To enrich the rich, to build more highways, to make bankers and mortgage holding corporation around the world prosperous, is that the Congressional and Presidential business plan?

Congress and the Presidency seem corrupt. The small business loan package now before congress would give 10 billion to banks to make small loans. With seniorage they can loan 300 billion--maybe they will, maybe they will just selectively enrich whatever sectors they like.

If the public spends money on a real public works project of long range growth value to the economy like the Orion and Moon Base project its fairly plain. When the money is given to banks then more rope is given to those concentrating wealth and corrupting a fair economic field to oppress the poor and middle class. Fundamentally it seems stupid for the taxpayers already far in public debt to give more money to the traditionally moneyed class of bankers.

The White House sued Arizona to prevent law enforcement officials form discovering if people locally are illegal aliens from Al Qa'eda's friendly nations or wherever. The white color lawyer class of non-physical workers also gave the raspberry to U.S.laborers that want work and higher wages with a better labor market. One wonders if the President has ever done an honest days physical work in his life?

Kim Il Threatens Nuclear War: Big Dongs Move Upright (satire)

Kim Il, North Korean Dictator, after much personal bio-mass component mind searching, finally has threatened nuclear war upon foes to the south because of troop excercises of the United States,South Korea as well perhaps as the vast federal deficit that should tick off reasonable people everywhere.

The benevolent and excellent foreign dictator, speaking at the Elvis Presley Memorial Imitator Awards, where he was given a lifetime achievement award--a velvet coat and commemorative Elvis jumpsuit thought aloud to our ESP'n correspondent 'get into the physical, got to make the body politic talk of me'.

Commandante Clint Cappo of the U.S. Bomber administration is said to have replied to a question on potential responses to this belligerancy " Fine, that makes my day. If he wipes out the south it will save us a lot of future spending over there, and we can finally launch some of our sea-fish product to toast the North, reduce inventory and simultaneously increasing through-put."

Dictator Kim may have as many as a dozen nuclear bombs to place upon his big dong missiles. These are considered in technical political jargon as prophylaxtics against peace and prosperity.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/24/north-korea-nuclear-war-threat

Republican politicians inside the federal belltway are said to have thought that if worst comes to worst and Dictator Kim decides to go ahead and launch, "that the missiles can hit Boston and spare the rest of the nation from the horror of nuclear holocaust and we hate NPR and the Red Sox."

President Obama's press secretary Mel Gibson answered questions for the press mob on the potential for nuclear conflict. The press secretary said " I deserve bleep before any missiles are launched. Its all a blast and they can toast maybe Japan and Queensland even if the big dongs can't reach L.A Thats a funny statement to me that the big dongs can't reach L.A. I know how the Dictator feels."

Big Dong missiles are the concern of Chairman Mullins of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. An expert on the typo dong missile program, the Admiral in Afghanistan searching for lost seaman that took a car into a Taliban area for a firefight last night on their way to the beach is said to have thought that "If the military can let these guys with the big dongs have a little space maybe we can increase enlistment numbers and blast the bad guys. The greater east Asian coo-prosperity sphere may be just a dream today, but war is hell. Oh bomb them to hell anyway."

The administration was said to be considering sending Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Seoul and points north to encourage Chairman Dictator Kim Il to cool off his big dongs. The Bourgeois Think tank thinkers thought that if war does break out we hope it is finished n three hours and produces many excellent mushroom clouds for instant replay and analysis by the global media. It could stimulate economic development.

The Essential Reading List for 2012 Presidential Candidates

Here is a list of essential readings for the well-prepaired 2012 Presidential candidate if they are to have their proverbial oars in the water.

1) Halliburton's Army by Chatterjee

2) The Three Trillion Dollar War by Linda J. Bilmes and Joseph E. Stiglitz

3) Ecological Economics: Principals and Applications by Daly and Farley

http://www.amazon.com/Ecological-Economics-Applications-Herman-Daly/dp/1559633123/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279738139&sr=1-1

4) The Unconscious Civilization by Sauls

5) Take This Job and Ship It: How Corporate Greed and Brain-Dead Politics Are Selling Out America by Byron Dorgan

U.S. Energy Policy Leadership Lack's Energy

National energy policy should be a shoo-in with high unemployment, oil at 80 dollars per barrel, protracted financial quagmire in Iraq to get oil field contracts and support service tax dollars for oil field services corporations and 30 years of practice failing to get off the fossil fuel failing career track, not to mention the Gulf of Mexico BP oil leak debacle. The Obama administration seems aenemic on intellectual vision on how to exploit all the political adversity in the United States to get an energy bill through congress that would radically break with reliance on fossil fuel automotive transportation. Perhaps the President still sucks on cigarettes and that is a good enough pacifier to prevent a desire to employ tens of thousands on new energy infrastructure.

Liguid hydrogen bathed superconductor lines for a new energy grid corethat would also provide power for direct electric car energy. Such a paradigm around the periimeter of the nation and through a few east-west/north south lines would cost maybe a trillion or more, yet would emply thousands and stimulate new technologies and business. it would store wind, solar and fuel cell generated electricity aswellas conventional, and ordinary citizens would be free to sell their home-produced power to that supper-conducting grid.

The United States needs a change in public infrastructure to create a new paradigm that will change the down drift of business as usual that so disadvantages Americans on trade balances, energy production ownership and automobile production. The United States is a Gulliver bound by ties of foreign ownership of technologies invented in America yet allowed to become an anachronistic levers against progress.

Internet Digital Radio For U.S. Citizens Should Take AM-FM Airwaves

To save democracy in the United States AM-FM radio broadcast frequencies should be given to Internet digital radio use for citizens registered with the FCC locally. The present power of concentrated wealth to buy and operate radio stations, to purchase hired guns to brainwash the masses politically, to put out the stupidest possible programming in order to dumb down society and sell product is harmful to U.S. national interests and political independence.

The most optimal technical use of digital radio and Internet podcast technology should be created to allow U.S. state citizens an opportunity to have their own slice of local radio airtime to broadcast their own works. Censorship of select obscenity would be easy to digitally accomplish automatically by computer. Other than deleting standard obscenity, the content would be free speech unlimited.

There are many citizens that would broadcast a far higher intellectual content than today’s broadcasters. Free enterprise should develop in far more ways than exists today. Local Internet podcasters could also sell advertising to local businesses.

Citizens of particular citizens would be given priority in receiving a local am-fm digital Internet broadcast slice. With federal study to determine the best technical means to provide the most local radio broadcast time to local citizens, existing burst radio transmissions and newer digital transmission radio manufactures could dial in local broadcasters for a more stimulating national radio environment.

Solving the Problem of Collegiate Plagiarism

The A.M.A. and Boston Cream Pie’d Plagiarism

A recent study pertaining to medical students discovered that 5% of the students essay exams were plagiarized. Some have suggested that select essay exams be discontinued from collegiate testing because of the ease with which elite college students may rip off Internet authors. Yet such a panic attack reaction isn’t needed, and America does want to have literate college alumni.

Next time a college paper on how one’s ancestors arrived in America begins with ‘four score and twenty years ago, my forefather and foremother stepped forth upon this continent to conceive a new life” etc a busy college professors need not just wonder if that one paper’s content doesn’t sound a little familiar. Instead he or she (not necessarily in that order) can upload a digitalized paper to the Universal Internet Plagiarism Check service.com

Whenever I write a new essay for publication at Triond.com a little time passes while they check to see if it has been published anywhere else on the Internet. Even if I published it myself first somewhere such as BestInternetwriters.com, Triond.com will let me know where it was published and reject it for being previously published. Such a service should be available for colleges routinely to use on all graduate and undergraduate essays, and could be for a very low cost per paper if they were all digitalized. Each college paper plagiarized should be caught for cheating and rejected like a body builder in competition using steroids and human growth hormones or an Olympic swimmer having stem cell modifications to grow webbed feet and hands.

While the Internet has made plagiarism easy, it has also made revealing plagiarism easy. The American Medical Association can profit from instant plagiarism check services probably available on line. I suppose that even a Google search for a string of words enclosed in quotes could turn up some plagiarized material for free.

Integrity can return to college classrooms if instant plagiarism checks become a routine part of undergraduate work. Students that write mediocre papers in comparison to those that plagiarize brilliant yet obscure philosophy papers should not be penalized for making a good effort that suffers in comparison to the unfairly copied paper on The One such as Plotinus described in The Enneads by The Eskimo Of the Unknown Ice Flow (if such an authored paper existed).

Nearly two decade ago I wrote a science fiction short story named Alaska Mag Accelerator (A.M.A.) that was about electro-magnetic accelerated transport modules across continents in tubes, it had no relationship to the Medical Society acronym, and such coincidences turn can turn up in essays too. Good essay examination software can produce a quality examination sufficient to determine if a paper is just coincidentally like another or actual plagiarism, for there are many levels of literary analysis available today.

If the United States is to graduate honest and capable college graduates it should have more plagiarism testing—even routine testing, just as college athletics should have far more doping tests. Society must know who the real meat-heads are as well as develop those with inadequate literary composition capabilities through remedial study into righteous if not radical writers with a discursive style that reaches effective if not persuasive levels of ink or crystal display, light emitting diode or electron language construction.

'Halliburton's Army' and 'The Three Trillion Dollar War'; 2010 Election/War Issues

Free Corporations from Slavery-End Buying of Stock Shares of These Fiction ‘Individuals’

If a corporation treated legally as an individual isn’t a collective then what is? Perhaps joint partnerships should be the largest communal business form to be legally allowed to exist, such that when people partners named A+B+C+D+E spill oil they are sued and go out of business because they have financially responsibility instead of individual collective Big A is sued for spilling oil yet the owners of a have no personal financial responsibility though the stock value may or may not suffer. Well, more of this subject later. The economic future of the United States is under assault from a number of directions including Mexico, the broadcast media and corporatism.

Reading Pratap Chatterjee ‘s 2009 book “Halliburton’s Army” on those tens of thousands of people working abroad in construction projects and providing services to fulfill U.S. Government contracts pertaining to war missions often of a protracted nature, I found new information to fill out some of the details of the more general work I had recently read; the ‘The Three Trillion Dollar War’ co-authored by a winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics (Stiglitz), on the Iraq and Afghanistan financial swamp devastating the U.S. economy. There are many historical evolutionary business elements involved in the private business contracting for each war, too many to review here (I suggest reading each book), yet certain points exist regarding the phenomena of globalism, corporatism and corruption that may be cited or considered briefly.

The Brown and Root Corporation owned for a while by Halliburton has been involved in vast military construction projects since the Vietnam War. They were part of a consortium that built 95% of large U.S. military bases in Vietnam. Halliburton/Brown and Root was the largest contractor in the Iraq-Afghanistan conflicts as well. From L.B.J. to Dick Cheney the Halliburton/KBR relationships were too cozy comprising a conflict of interest and possibly a draft toward war for the profit of private interests. My concern here is simply with the phenomena of corporatism upon U.S. employment and environmental interests rather than in recounting the history of corruption of Halliburton and Brown and Root, the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, LOGCAP, the naval equivalent or so forth, Pentagon procurements or awarding of contracts etc.

Much of the employment by Halliburton/KBR contractors abroad goes to TCNs or Third Country Nationals. Even Guantanamo Bay was built by flown in Philippine workers paid 2.50 and hour and then sent back to Manila. U.S. taxpayers pay huge amounts of money to fund private contractor developments in support of military deployments abroad in areas of conflict and instead of Americans or locals getting the jobs, much of the time TCNs are hired because they are the cheapest or safest and produce the most profit for the ostensible U.S. contractor (Halliburton relocated its headquarters to Dubai).

The degree of corruption in granting military support contracts is substantial, and perhaps itself comprises a reason for war if not for assassinating Presidents who would not kick back so well to particular corporations.

These protracted war and nation rebuilding missions abroad kickback product purchases to several American food corporations as well as other suppliers, and the phenomena creates a political draft for continuity of the phenomenon.

Corporatism is something like socialism, yet it is not as fair regarding lower level distribution of wages. Corporatism in foreign war contracting may also supply start up foreign corporations that bribe contract-awarding officials with a percentage of future profits, and these foreign corporations later become influential over U.S. interests.

Large multinational corporations that influence U.S. politicians in a variety of ways conform to a phenomenon of corporatism. The poor and unemployed in the United States are lint for both major political parties as is the environment. Unfortunately simple human corruption and greed in and out of government are the heart of the problem.

With the primary broadcast media owned by powers of concentrated wealth the basic agency of propaganda is unchallenged; U.S. nationalism is degraded along with the environment.

Without a political rectification toward smaller business, ecologically renewable, free enterprise nationalism the future of the United States is that of being exploited by globalist concentrated wealth and power. The Democratic Party has lost interest in really supporting new private sector employment for the poor and those out of work for the longest time first. The Republican Party and right wing talk radio speak out against ‘big government’. When in political power some conservative politicians such as Dick Cheney acted as if they felt entitled to take out their contempt for big government by giving big contracts to corporate firms with special interests that have been friendly to their career interests in the past.

For some reason dumping huge multi-billion dollar contracts to the private sector on the public credit card is considered to be thumbing the nose at ‘big government’. Such conservatives divert investment capital abroad, create vast public debt and reduce social services to the poor in the United States.

There is another down side to this military-industrial-conservative deficit spending for protracted corrupt, inept nation rebuilding that is mostly unknown in the U.S.A.; there is a pervasive two-scale pay system for these contractors working on U.S. military projects abroad. Chatterjee writes on page 144 of ‘Halliburton’s Army’; “In fact salaries” (of TNC’) “were tied to country of origin. Thus a Bangladeshi cleaner would be paid less than a Pakistani, a Georgian truck driver more than a Fijian, and a white South African security guard would make more than an Indian for doing the very same job. The poorer the country of citizenship, the less the workers were paid, which is not unlike the caste system in India or the apartheid system in South Africa before the African National Congress came to power.” End quote.

The practice of paying Third Country Nationals far less than U.S. workers to produce profit is of course at the heart of corporate capitalism of a Spenserian kind. Americans generally know that since the end of the cold war they face more laboring challenges from abroad. Americans working abroad may not be allowed to ‘dirty work’ because it might make the TNCs more restive for higher, equal wages in the right belief that the Americans are not superior doing equal work. That could lead to a reduction in corporate profit. In the long run such practices may lead to increased popular bias globally against U.S. citizens generally.

I believe that a new era of nationalism of an ecological economic nature is the direction the United States should go. For most of my life I have just done unskilled or semi-skilled manual labor such as house repainting, and I enjoy gardening and nature and would be too happy to transition to a less wasteful national economy and world trading regime in which the transfer of natural resources over international borders is done for reasons of comparative ecological interest rather than for temporal fiduciary advantage of exploitative individuals through trans-national corporations.

Corporations are not mentioned in the U.S. Declaration of Independence nor Constitution, and fundamentally there is no reason why they should be granted a legal fiction status as individuals of an immortal nature. They could at least be limited in size of employees to 3000, and citizens could be limited to investing in ownership of just three legal fiction individual corporations each in order to prevent legal fictions from the ownership of real American opportunities that through sheer financial and economic power exclude Americans from equal opportunity in free enterprise opportunities with other individuals in the United States of America. If corporations are even fiction individuals they should be protected from being bought and sold through stock offerings as if they were slaves anyway. Though it is a silly legal theory, the emancipation proclamation might be applied to the fiction individuals too, and corporations finally given their freedom with nobody owning them anymore.

The Democratic Party led by President Obama is continuing these foreign financial fiascos in Afghanistan and Iraq that will continue as they are so long as American taxpayers allow foreign and concentrated wealth loans to be borrowed I their name and spent abroad. The opportunity costs for diverting investment capital abroad are immense. The fundamental profiteers from these foreign expenditures are corrupt cadres of corporate contractors. The profits foreign and Muslim led corporations profiting from these oil sales and wars are also huge. Already some Muslim subcontractor of the U.S. Government may have slipped in a Pakistani nuclear device for burial in the New Mexico desert—who can say? From Mississippi River trans-ocean shippers to port security and U.S. rail the Muslim wealth has increased its power in the American economy. Just one nuclear device already in the nation and ready for use whenever times are deemed appropriate could vaporize the nation’s (The United States in this case) federal capitol. A more sober nationalism would make not only the poor and unemployed of America happy as they found good jobs and housing, but reduce the non-renewable wastage factor of those that believe that capitalism fundamentally means the advantage of the most corrupt in global economic slight of hand, fraud, corruption perfidy and treachery. Humanity may be able to continue progress with such activities forming a part of the economic facts of life, yet it really isn’t helpful. The United States and the world economy too can progress better with a more advantaged localism in politics with a global awareness of the vital importance of keeping a healthy environment and humanism ashore on the Earth on the threshold of realms of absolute spirit. The human destiny of reconciliation unto realms of absolute spirit may journey beyond an infinity of galaxies or Universes, yet begins with national rationalism and lunar development while we serve as a priesthood of believers in true compassion toward all.

President Obama's Core Supporters & The Axis of Oil and War Contractors

Considering the condition of the economy and the Presidential policies in reply, we experience a moribund, conservative stuffed suit approach to the incumbency. Happy enough to be the first black Presidency in U.S. History during difficult, complex time of commercial and public debt challenges, President Obama has few new ideas to offer and simply appeals to his core constituency—what is that?

Homosexuals, supporters of illegal alien sovereignty, democratic women for multi-culturalism meaning anything besides white men, and perhaps 99% of U.S. blacks including Colin Powell. The President has largely continued the commercial debt increase policies of the Bush global agenda while adding an effort to form a cadre of military homosexuals, assault on states efforts to arrest some of the millions of illegal aliens and remand them to federal custody and mildly correct some excesses of the financial fraud industry of Wall Street.

Harvard globalism and the Boston axis of Federal political power plays a strange tune for the nation to dance to like monkey's on strings. Perhaps Boston offers global empowering liberalism and Texas supplies Presidents to enrich K.B.R. and Halliburton. Sometimes these power centers converge.

The post-cold war militancy to gay up the military is part of the natural effort of homosexuals to flank heterosexual males of a perennial nature manifesting from Sodom and Gomorrah to the Nazi Party S.A. and flaring up in the Cult of Bacchus of Republican Rome. If Pat Buchanan was right in the 1992 Presidential election, Bush I was a closet supporter of homosexual politics. The Marlin Fitzwater was rumored to be of such a close relationship that it was scandalous under the table. At least the Florida marlins were created post Bush I and one the World Series in their first season.

Alice Cooper has returned to radio in this year in which the President has structured a plan to force the end of don’t ask, don’t tell upon the U.S. military. Hits from ‘Cooper’s closet’ remind us that the Elton John saturation of radio is out of season except for his blatant homosexual declaration and the British era of homosexual marriages. We believe the Bush I lead in the Gulf war and the steady movement toward global corporatism were about oil wealth and homosexual hard cores. Halliburton, the Corporation former Vice-President Dick Cheney led, received contracts leading to 25 billion dollars from the U.S. Government for food and logistics services. Bush II’s Sect. of Defense continues in the Obama administration, and the profits from protracted, incompetent war continue to flow to former Texas corporations such as K.B.R. and Halliburton. This seems to be an axis of oil and homosexual politics of a Bush-Clinton-Obama axis that is harmful to the interests of the United States.

The Vietnam War and the Iraq-Afghanistan wars may have had righteous premises, yet the implementation and protracted prosecution were perhaps corrupted and unnecessary. The Texas corporations K.B.R. built most of the military bases during the Vietnam conflict and Halliburton was rewarded with huge Iraq war base contracts. With a Texas President in the White House in each instance an obvious conflict of interest arose. It is not impossible that a homosexual-oil industry axis of interest arose to protract these wars in order to profit special interests.

Reaganomics was a one-time emergency spending by Ronald Reagan to lift the United States from a post-Vietnam economic slump and it worked. The trouble with that is that emulation of the Reagan emergency spending policy is nearly fatal for U.S. political economy, and badly considered protracted war to win nothing except oil contracts and military supply contracts is destructive for U.S. economic interests. In neither case was occupation of the country following the war required for further U.S. security against terrorism, and if a reconstruction effort was to be made it required a plan of a rational kind that was short, sharp and effective.

If a military-industrial homosexual continuum is the Obama policy as well as that of Bush I, Bush II and partly that of President Clinton with albeit, a personally antipathetic such symbolism though he too advocated a gayed military policy, the near majority of support of a cross-party dressing kind may be more numerous than that of the former Bush I Republican oil fundamental such as Philips described in ‘American Theocracy’

2010-2012 Election Cycle Ideas Contra-Corporatism U.S.A.

It should be quite reasonable that a democracy can set limits upon the size of organizations such as corporations. A democracy is centered upon individuals rather than collectives including those of business. In order to prevent the hostile takeover of social liberty, that is of individual liberty by clever organizations making a ceiling for organizational employee numbers such as 3000 people would be good enough.

Large organizations reduce invention and product development through neo-oligharchy and networking. Overly large organization socially reduce efficiency and create inertia for design stagnation. If one compares today's cars to those of 1960, it is easy to observe the the most significant difference in the auto systems infrastructure is that the speed limit where higher 50 years ago. In a half century America has not improved or radically upgraded and changed its personal transport infrastructure and of course it could.

For the Harvard M.B.A. gang abstract market control factors become more important than the well being and standard of living of ordinary individual American citizens. Citizen freedom to compete on a level free enterprise field is important to defend. Actual national citizens should not be plundered by globalists with deep pockets.

If the domination of the economic-political sphere was regulated through democratic action, if no individual could invest in more than three corporations, then innovation and competition, efficiency and adaptability would increase. On one branch is individualism, small business and ecological efficiency, and on the other road are the mega-social isms of communism, fascism and corporatism. Even libertarianism lies on the side of 'freedom for large organizations to rule the world as they desire.

The next President needs good ideas, an understanding of the political philosophy of corporatism, a textbook understanding of what actual ecological economics is, and a willingness to lead Americans to a new compassionate nationalism with an oars in the water approach to rectifying maladroit contemporary economics and security. Spending more money (maybe 5 trillion) to defend the nation from box-cutter wielding hijackers than we did on cold war defenses against ballistic nuclear missiles is absurd and the most gross incompetence and corruption. The Executive and Congressional branches of government seem corrupt, stupid or both, by logical inference.

National Priorities Database Useful for Economic Understanding

The Nation has challenging political and economic times because of bad leadership. Perhaps Christians and Muslims in the U.S. military service will need to be given religious exemptions from service if they are compelled to be yoked with sinners as official government policy to welcome with open arms homosexual military personnel. The timing on the gay option for the U.S Military is maladroit in the midst of an economic downturn. Defense Secretary Gates remaining in the spend 14 billion dollars a day post is unfortunate too. He issued a questionaire via email concerning the question of gaying up the historically hetero-normal military...

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2010/07/military_dontask_survey_070710w/

If the nation can escape Federal sin of an economic kind, perhaps we can remove from the two illogical foreign boondoggles directly and consider something else to do. The Iraqis cannot even decide between Alawi and Maliki because they know how to keep a turkey in suspense. Maybe we have done enough for the Iraqis as it is, and should let Exxon-Mobil pay to defend its own oil fields in the future.

http://www.nationalpriorities.org/

In reading the book 'The Three Trillion Dollar War' co-authored by a Nobel prize winner in economics, I encountered the mention of the National Priorities project. If one wonders how the U.S. economy is going wrong for some of us, the database helps.

Remember back 'in the day' when a Bush neo-con supporter of the war in Iraq estimated the U.S. taxpayer cost for reconstruction at 1.7 billion? Now the cost is expected to be more than 3 trillion dollars and for what? Why are we still there any way?

The federal congress simply rolled over on budgeting the war---Democrats wouldn't vote against anything. Defense Secretary Gates has been a Bush protege continuity spender since 2007 and should be fired by the Harvard Alumni stuffed suit administration. Emergency budget bills and a zillion private contractors made this war for non-existing weapons of mass destruction (the publics reasoning if not my own) costlier than Vietnam and nearly as expensive as the second world war.

The administration knew how to get Sect Gates and Admiral Mullins the opportunity to ask the military (they just sent an email inquiry to 400,000 military personnel) if they would object to having gay pride parades and homosexuals sucking up to officers openly in their units--just attach the measure to a Defense spending bill. Evidently the Iraq and Afghanistan spending bills are excellent tools for port allocations to congressional districts.

The private military contractors acting as a private army were paid as much as 400,000 dollars per year. Congress was rolling over and having its belly scratched of course with patriotic speeches. Several years more of idiotic neo-war ahead perhaps.

The National Priorities Project does have some useful information.