According to a report by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, one group has been completely unaffected by the global economic meltdown, the military.
“The economic crisis hasn’t had a dramatic impact on defense spending in the past 18 months,” one of the IISS economists, Mark Stoker, noted. In fact worldwide the report showed that military spending actually grew markedly over the past few years, from $1.3 trillion worldwide in 2006, to $1.55 trillion in 2008.
The trend shows no sign of reversing, with the United States, responsible for nearly half of that spending by itself, looking at record war budgets moving forward according to the Obama Administration. The IISS report said only Russia was anticipating a reduction in spending among major nations.
The economic downturn has left governments across the world looking at ways to curb spending, but so far few nations are looking at the military as a place to make cuts. As political unrest grows and more nations bring out austerity programs, it seems likely that military spending will come under renewed scrutiny.
This article speaks to the essence of the state. There is nothing benevolent about the state. It is about force, death, and destruction. Of course, government officials will not give up their missles, bombs, warships, and tanks because these articles of war are a material manifestation of what government and government officials are.
The M.I.C. complex sure knows how to protect itself. It takes care of itself, and only itself. The merchants of death care only about themselves and their blood money.
Recession be damned! The American Empire rolls on …
and the objective , with the overall trend to automazation,how much of a governmaent is tangable,like a incorperated entity and how much is un-tanganble an idea pursued,in the masquaraided immation of for to & also by,the objective of powes' tendancie to rest is awaiting report or response,pity,sympathy empathy,duetreumn,or mercy,etc,etc,,,