TRICKLE DOWN MYTH

The 1940's image of 'Rosie the Riveter’ creates nostalgic and romantic images of wartime loyalty and patriotic sacrifice.  Contributions to the war fund, getting people out of the food lines and into the factories, resulting in mutually rewarding benefits for individuals, as well as the nation's efforts, is a value laden concept which many Americans hold near and dear.  Hold on to your hearts, that image is getting challenged.
 
GW Bush's Congressional House who recently passed the extension of the capital gains tax cut for 2 more years, most certainly will garner opposition by the silly Democrats.  It seems they don't understand that
Foreign entities can buy more Boeing Planes and Lockheed Martin missiles, and DynCorp armed mercenaries.   
 
 The US wars are like giant global trade shows.  Let's show the buyers in foreign markets how sneaky high tech, how fast planes that fly themselves, how armies that don't require food, can make profits for royal coiffeurs.
 
Here is how they do it:  Tax cuts and Wartime debt spending. (After they convince a nostalgic American mass that a war is needed, threaten the foreign markets' public masses that enemies lurk, and while they convince a few that to contribute your taxes to the common good equals communism)
 
So, why is the nation's trade deficit so off balance?  Aren't foreign entities buying our planes, our missiles, and our nuclear secrets??  No, they are not.  
 
The foreign entities that have put money into their own pockets using the personal gains of the American elite, can now go shopping.  And, over time, the sales of the Pentagon toys to them has resulted in their growing ability to produce these toys themselves, eliminating the need for US branded DEFENSE products. 
 
Yet, as with any product, the market must be created by perceived needs.   I need this warplane because there is a threat that exists.... In come the war making Public Relations firms... the power laden religious lobbies and the CIA instigating social unrests...and of course the historically conflicted Sinai region acting as the barometer for the need for missiles.
 
With global peace, the US has little money to keep circulated.  Ideally. 
 
Essentially, we became our worst competitor.   The entire defense, production treaties were aimed at creating a hostage market.  Our customers had to buy from the US, since we were the only ones legally able to produce them.   (The Wal-Mart syndrome)
 
And, when the US Congress, the 2nd Branch obligated by their oath to represent the American people's needs, became profiteers of the US Defense Industry, the formula became a lethal prescription for total destruction of the US economy, as well as a breech to the global safety.
 
Here is the modern formula:  TRICKLE DOWN Mythology
The personal wealth gains in the US, puts money in the pocket of foreign investors who turn that US cash into war toys purchased from the US Pentagon, and thus the economy of the US remains superficially fluent.
 
 Last year, $7.3 trillion in cash fled the country to foreign interests.  These interests grew that cash into an additional $625billion in profits on that $7+trillion.  That cash also stayed out of the country. 
 
Individuals, not companies, benefit.  When individuals cash in on the sale of a house, or a business, they pay little or no tax on this personal wealth. 
 
As individuals, they have no employees; they do not donate this wealth to their corporations (whose sales funded this salary), so the company can buy more employees.  Instead they send the cash out of the country. 
 
Monte Carlo elite got richer.  Southern France elite got richer.  South African dictators got richer, Middle East Kings and Muslim DICTATORS got richer.   Scandinavian figureheads got richer.  Caribbean offshore bank fund owners got richer.  Currency traders got richer.
 
Meanwhile, the large corporations’ Execs, that cashed in on their personal salary wealth's investments, cut the corporate overhead by cutting jobs nearing 1 million, thus affording the CEO'S their multimillion dollar bonuses, untaxed, and thus the investments abroad. 
 
The tax cuts summarily robbed the US economy of $10's of trillions of dollars, combined with the massive debt spending under the heading of wartime costs, has done what the GOP has wanted to do for a long time:  vacate the entitlement, the social, the public welfare common good spending.  Return the nation to PRE-FDR.   
 
You see, if the feds' piggy bank is empty, then they close down the need for discourse and debate on social welfare.  The nation's people will have to learn how to emancipate and even if that means many have to starve to death, or die from lack of health care, it is the survival of the fittest, and this includes the nation's VETERANS of foreign wars. These deaths or eliminations are seen as the 'cost of the few, for the benefit of the many'. 
 
So, Lefties and Righties get with the program.  Let's call it what it is.  The US needs to stop production of the foreign defense production, so that the US can remain the 'power broker' in Defense toys.  And to motivate the buyer, the world must be threatened by the invisible enemy, and that lucky winner this round, is the Muslim.   Last round was the invisible Communist.  
 
Added to this, is the Americans consumption of the culturally divisive concepts, to which no resolve exists:  gay, guns, god and abortion.  This paradigm of keeping the American masses busy with their conflicts and narrow focused lenses, has allowed the fruits of their labors, to fund disasters in waiting, death, disease and planetary havoc.
 
The barter being, that the US will protect the world, if they stop cutting out our markets for the defense toys.   Shock and Awe.  What a show that was supposed to be.  Was it successful?  That depends on whom you talk to. 
 
The entire top handed players, however, forgot the human factor.  Some Americans really believe in enemies.  They spend their entire lives fighting the enemies created by the marketing and the mass production of the evidence to support the advertisement. 
 
Sometimes, as with Vietnam, and now Iraq, the Trade Show arena fights back.  It seems the Americans have a dilemma to discourse over.  Are foreign wars ethical?  Are Americans capable of producing economies outside of the Defense Department annual sales?  
 
What are Americans willing to accept in terms of reasonable costs, as as means to the ends? 
 
There is really not a 'voodoo' conspiracy here.  Simply, greedy and un-wise humans who used uninformed sources of money to fund their formula for a failure.   This is a global disaster.  All political parties, states, nations, territories, must take account for their participation.
 
And, all individuals must learn, quickly, how to best survive the coming fallout, if they are unwilling to use their market power to prevent this disaster from growing any further.
 
Lessons to be learned come not from the current events, rather, from the study of the ancient philosophers and more recent records of history.   Plato understood.  Machiavelli understood.  Caesar understood.  The modern day strategists failed to learn that they couldn’t outsmart those who try to pass on their wealth of understanding.  
 
"One faces the future, with one's past"  Pearl S. Buck
 
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