It's good to know I'm not the only one who thinks the military's camouflage fetish has gone crazy.

[Aristus]

41. A lot of people call it a good job.

And this is a prevalent sentiment throughout the country: "The congressmen of every other district are engaged in unconscionable waste of the tax-payers money! Me? I'm providing employment for my constituents!"

Or put another way: Everybody complains about the waste of tax-payer money, but nobody does anything about it.

What we need to do is transition away from a war economy, and back to a peacetime consumer economy. The reason our economy is in such a shambles is because the only things we build anymore are weapons, and the accoutrements of war. That's no way to sustain an economy.

It's been done before. There was a major naval base in South Carolina that was shut down in the 1990's. Just about everyone sounded the death knell for the community down there. But the community adapted and changed, and by the early 2000's, was thriving on a non-militarized economy.