Please help me with some numbers... are we safe yet?

[scentopine]

How many US citizens work in direct or indirect support of military or police work? DoD must have close to 10,000,000 civilian and enlisted. How about employees of:

FBI
TSA
CIA
INS
HSA
ATF
Secret Service
(the fabulous new Cyber Security Agency)
local police, sheriff, prison guards, etc

Now - count up the contractors supporting the above. In recent times we have had as many contractors fighting our 2 wars in Asia as military personnel.

So, it would not surprise me if 15% to 20% or more of all US citizens were directly or indirectly helping to kill, police and contain and control populations here and abroad.

Maybe 45 to 60 million people "protecting" us.

But - when it comes to the crime of

- contractors who torture
- CIA and DoD who torture
- contractors who gang rape and abuse their employees
- CEOs who gang rape our treasury
- companies who wire tap citizens
- wall street fraud and abuse causing worldwide disaster
- health care industry fraud and abuse killing people

who is protecting us from this? Democratic leadership? Obama? Really?

As Wall Street sells US intellectual property designing and manufacturing real goods and services to Asia for pennies on the dollar, what are we left with? Police work; here and abroad. It is a staggering number of people who work to control protect other people.

As we struggle and sacrifice and die to protect our tiny population of rich people, we are turning against each other. It's time for good people to join and fight for our own best interests instead of fighting and dying to preserve Wall Street's and Washington's way of life. Beyond a narrow range sound-bite ready wedge issues, democratic and republican parties are proving to be mostly the same. Neither is capable of change.

We need a new political party.


p.s. Here's a poorly kept secret, DoD outsourcing to Asia is growing by leaps and bounds.

[dschis]

1. Hmmm

If we just get the blue dogs out. Outlaw this damn legalized bribery. But on the bright side the good folks from Indiana tightened up their errant senator. We need a few more of these. Vote next Tuesday, go to party meeting and repeat what you just said. I still think we would be in better shape if Perot had made it. I'm telling you Brown from Ohio should be the next president, he's good. I'll keep on voting for him