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In reply to the discussion: Thank You Bernie Sanders: 'The Devil Will Be In The Details' .. 'I Do Not Agree With The President' [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)scheme, implemented by Bush/Cheney using fear after 9/11 to so. Billions of tax dollars have been spent on these Private Security Corporations, like Booz Allen eg, Clapper's Corporation, an old Bush loyalist, and they have zero to show for it, as the Panel confirmed, other than spying on the American people. According to Feinstein we are in more danger than ever. That wasn't exactly a ringing endorsement for spending any more of our tax dollars on Private Security Corps. All of that has contributed to the Deficit they keep talking about.
I don't trust Republicans with anything, least of all Public Funds intended to be spent on the American people, education, also being privatized, security, military, MORE 'private contractors/mercenaries and they are after SS which they borrowed from to pay all these private corporations for the scam they've running for the past dozen years.
If you view any of this predatory capitalism which has swiftly moved money up to the top 1% leaving the working class jobless, homeless and poor, in any way 'preserving our integrity', I could not disagree more.
Sanders and a couple of Dems, too few obviously, have been trying to change these Bush policies we were left it, but it's not easy when both parties are on board.
Maybe if they stopped funding Private Corps to spend their time spying on the American people, they could do the job they were elected to do, security is the business of CONGRESS and outsourcing it costs the tax payers BILLIONS and we get nothing for it according to the reports now. What IS their function if after 12 years of obscene amounts of money and spying on the wrong people, WE are not the ENEMY, they have not caught a single terrorist?
Sorry, integrity has a whole different meaning for me .... I want public money spent on the public not on Bush/Cheney's private corporations which still filled with old Bush loyalists which not only doesn't make me feel safe, it scares me to death. Why were they not fired?