The Military ruined this country

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11. It's not the military. It's the corporations run by the Daddy Warbucks that have ruined the country.

Little Orphan Annie's benefactor, Daddy Warbucks himself was such a person and the cartoon's creator understood that the people and their companies that supply munitions and infrastructure for the military are the ones that stand to gain the most from perpetual war. All anyone has to do to understand that sorry truth is to look at weasels like Cheney and Rumsfield to see this in action. Both of these warmongers stood to benefit in perpetuity by ginning up a war to drain profits from Halliburton and KBR, along with others like GE, Lockheed, Northrup Grumman, and others that manufacture the planes, engines, munitions, etc. that supply the military. These are the people and their companies that should earn the disgust of the citizens of this country. Another sinister and rarely mentioned factoid is that it benefits the warmongers to keep the majority of the citizens in this country poor or underemployed. What better way to recruit warriors for their military campaigns (in the absence of the draft) than to have no jobs or shit jobs for young, barely educated, mostly rural - but a larger growing number of urbanites - to become fodder for the neverending war efforts by the people will gain the most from wars and rumors of wars? It's true that the brass and the suits love their guns and glory, but without the ghouls to fan the flames of terror and their clamor for the endless war on terror, the exploitation of an increasingly ingorant population - ignorant wittingly, I might add - there'd be no real hunger for war in this country.