REPUBLICANS COMPROMISE TO RAISE THE DEBT LIMIT AGAIN
The House of Representatives passed the euphemistically named “Fiscal Responsibility Act” (314 to 117) supposedly to “avoid financial default on the national debt.” But that has always been a false claim in order to overcome conservative resistance to more debt. As I wrote recently, the government can always stop paying the interest the Federal Reserve claims is owed to them for creating more money out of nothing so the Treasury can sell it as Treasury bills or bonds. That’s the easy part. The harder part would be to cut off foreign aid and other welfare schemes which are unconstitutional, but which have large and powerful constituencies behind them—who are ready to vote them out of office. How do conservatives think they are ever going to pass a Balanced Budget Amendment which requires a 2/3 majority if they can’t hold the line on a debt ceiling vote which only requires a simple majority? In essence, the current debt ceiling limit forces a balanced budget, but leaders everywhere in government use scare tactics to drive the public and their representatives to vote for more debt rather than budgetary restraint. Of course, they claim that deficits don’t matter “because we owe it to ourselves.” But that’s never been true. Most people don’t own bonds. It is owed to investment funds, banks, pension funds, and other bond holders around the world, including China. No bill that continues deficit spending in peacetime can truthfully be called fiscally responsible. As I’ll explain in detail this week, this “Fiscal Responsibility Act” is just more smoke and mirror deception which allow for continued spending even as they claim there are limits. To receive a free one-free copy of the brief, click on Request a Sample on the left.
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The Russians are building tremendous new nuclear/biological and chemical weapons systems--all with the assistance of US technology transfers. They are deploying on average, 3 new Topol-M 6th generation ballistic missiles per month. We built our last MX over 10 years ago, and are disarming unilaterally. Further, the Russian are building huge underground nuclear bunkers and weapons production facilities in the Ural Mountains, clearly intended to function during a nuclear war. The US intelligence community (under both Republican and Democratic administrations) knows this and are actively covering for the Russians, so the American people won't become alarmed.
Both Republican and Democratic administrations have been supplying the Chinese with high technology weapons systems for years, knowing that they, in turn, are supplying other enemies (Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, North Korea) as well. Both Russia and China continue to protest against any US anti-ballistic missile system, even though such systems are purely defensive. It doesn't take a genius to understand that ABM systems only threaten someone who intends to launch ballistic missiles someday.
President Clinton directed our military to absorb a nuclear first strike rather than launch on warning (our only true deterrent to a first strike) and to prepare to retaliate afterward. That first strike will take down all command and control, all bombers (since none are on alert), most missiles, and all satellite and submarine communications.
According to the House Armed Services Committee, the following reductions have taken place during the Clinton Administration: Strategic and General Purpose Forces from 1990 to 1997: B-52 Bombers have gone from 220 to 56. B-1 Bombers from 90 to 60; Strategic Defense Interceptor Aircraft from 36 to 0; and Army Divisions (1990 to 1997) have gone from 18 Active down to 10. Reserve divisions have gone from 10 to 8. Army Brigades (1990 to 1997) have declined from 8 Active to 3 and Reserve brigades have gone down from 27 to 18.
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