02.14.11
A reasonable collection of unreasonable things
Today, a collection of the recent columns on the destruction of middle class manufacturing in the US. As contrasted with the astonishing and immoral growth in weapons manufacturing.
At GlobalSecurity.Org here.
As collected its startling, dismaying and equally enraging. Unless you have no heart or belief in fairness.
It is another example, at its most basic, of class war. The upper class — the rich mega-corporations which are arms developers, have systematically been part of the greatest and most unjust transfer of wealth and fortune from a middle class in history. And the looting is on a growth curve.
On another level it asks the minor question: If you believe in God, why doesn’t he smite General Atomics?
It also asks the question, “Why did Louis Uchitelle ignore the elephant in the room in this story?”