The Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex has morphed into Ray McGovern's MICIMATT: Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think-Tank complex.
The Pentagon has NEVER passed an audit but they give themselves high marks for making progress…meanwhile we have the endless wars.
“ As Republican Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, a frequent critic of the DoD’s financial practices, said on the Senate floor in September 2017, the Pentagon’s long-standing failure to conduct a proper audit reflects “twenty-six years of hard-core foot-dragging” on the part of the DoD, where “internal resistance to auditing the books runs deep.” In 1990, Congress passed the Chief Financial Officers Act, which required all departments and agencies of the federal government to develop auditable accounting systems and submit to annual audits. Since then, every department and agency has come into compliance—except the Pentagon.”
You're exactly correct. Will the war morph into a sophisticated weaponry war in Ukraine? I doubt it. I think Ukraine is dead. They're kicking the dead carcass. The Middle east is where they test their super sophisticated weaponry...which is why Israel is always bombing someone somewhere and the U.S. won't leave the Middle East although begged by countries to do so. The story I'll never forget was reading the account of a fisherman near Iraq who talked about the sea waters "boiling" and how many "cooked" fish washed up on shore as a result. Listen to the locals. Or maybe the one about a car of terrorists reduced to a microwave-size square of metal which U.S. forces summarily came and buried in the sand.
Thank you for such a great summary of what is going on in Congress. So how much goes to Iran and the Middle East. Our government consistently funds both sides of the war to benefit the military industrial complex at the expense of taxpayers and the innocent people in countries where these wars are fought
The Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex has morphed into Ray McGovern's MICIMATT: Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think-Tank complex.
The Pentagon has NEVER passed an audit but they give themselves high marks for making progress…meanwhile we have the endless wars.
“ As Republican Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, a frequent critic of the DoD’s financial practices, said on the Senate floor in September 2017, the Pentagon’s long-standing failure to conduct a proper audit reflects “twenty-six years of hard-core foot-dragging” on the part of the DoD, where “internal resistance to auditing the books runs deep.” In 1990, Congress passed the Chief Financial Officers Act, which required all departments and agencies of the federal government to develop auditable accounting systems and submit to annual audits. Since then, every department and agency has come into compliance—except the Pentagon.”
Quoted from: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/pentagon-audit-budget-fraud/
You're exactly correct. Will the war morph into a sophisticated weaponry war in Ukraine? I doubt it. I think Ukraine is dead. They're kicking the dead carcass. The Middle east is where they test their super sophisticated weaponry...which is why Israel is always bombing someone somewhere and the U.S. won't leave the Middle East although begged by countries to do so. The story I'll never forget was reading the account of a fisherman near Iraq who talked about the sea waters "boiling" and how many "cooked" fish washed up on shore as a result. Listen to the locals. Or maybe the one about a car of terrorists reduced to a microwave-size square of metal which U.S. forces summarily came and buried in the sand.
Thank you for such a great summary of what is going on in Congress. So how much goes to Iran and the Middle East. Our government consistently funds both sides of the war to benefit the military industrial complex at the expense of taxpayers and the innocent people in countries where these wars are fought
三权分立是个坏制度。因为三权分立只是把政治权力分散了。而政治权力只是社会力量的其中一个力量而已。影响国家的社会力量起码有三个。一是资本的力量，有钱能使鬼推磨。富商巨贾拥有十分巨大的影响国家的力量。所以中国自古以来都对商人十分警惕。二是人民的力量，水能载舟亦能覆舟。人民对国家的影响力中国人都是十分清楚的。所以中国自古以来就有民本主义思想。三是政治的力量，官僚系统是国家运转的齿轮。知识分子、英雄人物就是国家机器的零件。他们通过政治影响力来左右国家走向，维持国家运转。所谓得民心者得天下，其实就是政治力量得到了人民力量的支持。而所谓的三权分立，就是把政治力量打散了。而当政治力量无法形成合力的时候，就不可能跟资本的力量抗衡，而且极其容易被资本的力量分化。当有其中一股政治力量投靠了资本的时候，政治力量就不可能得到民心了。所以美国的三权分立根本就是一个笑话。美国之所以能在一定时间内不出现严重的内部分化，只是因为有外部力量在打击美国的资本力量。这导致美国的资本力量要与政治力量合作。所以才有了内部的凝聚力。而当美国的资本力量失去了外部威胁以后，美国的三权分立就开始被资本渗透了。美国的立法、行政已经全都是肉眼可见的资本的傀儡了。司法系统渗透得可能没那么严重，起码肉眼还看不出来。但是也已经不可能跟资本抗衡了。所以美国的政治力量已经被资本控制了，而资本是不可能得到民心的。国家建立起来不容易，但垮起来可是一夜之间的。如果美国不能再把内部矛盾向外引导，那就是一夜之间的事了。