Something more the War-mongering Freaks can bitch whine and snivel about, Welcome back, David Haddad errr “Mary”
So, since unabashed ChickenHawks like Glenn Beck like to “donate” Tax Deductible stuff like free airtime on their “news” shows, and the USO is begging for money for the families of the troops…
How, then, can the Recruiters claim in other (taxpayer funded) advertisements that the Military is a Good Career?
A few background items, if you will.
Glenn Beck, Chickenhawk, in 2007 participated in a “charity” Auction and one of the articles he donated (For a Tax Break…) a really really butt-ugly painting.
The bidding on it at the point where I tuned in, was 3400 dollars.
That means, for a few minutes of his time, about $10 worth of paint and a $30 canvass, he was getting a Tax Break to the tune of $3400.00
And publicity for his show, which consists almost entirely of licking Government Boot for an hour at a time.
He earns Is GIVEN his pay for Promoting The War and thus the very poverty/slash/hardship conditions the Military Personnel have to endure.
An Establishment Media Whore like that then gets to Pretend that he gives a damn about the Soldiers, their wives and children/slash/widows and orphans…
Gets paid to spew his drivel on the Air and then gets paid again by “donating” something to the USO.
His equally Cowardly Loud-mouthed War-Monger Friend who bought the painting also got to take an equal tax deduction
So far, that was $6800 dollars taken off their taxes,
The Same Taxes Which Form The Basis For The Costs Of The War
So they’re not only getting OTHER People to Fight for their Obscene profit Margins Ooops I was supposed to say “our Freedom”, thus putting the Soldiers and their families in dire financial straits…
They’re Getting Paid To Sell the “necessity” of THEIR War to those of us who DO pay taxes, and thus PAY THEIR BILLS for THEIR War…
On a show that gets Government Subsidies as well,
And make a huge Show of Concern for those poor families of the Soldiers.
The Soldiers who are being aggressively recruited even before they leave high school, whose Parents are being told several times an hour to support the decisions of their sons and daughters Sign The Papers Allowing Their Underage CHILDREN to drop out of school and join the Killing Machine.
Because being an Imperial Storm Trooper is such a Good Economic and Educational Opportunity.
It’s Payday today. because the 1st is on a weekend.
Since the middle of the month Military families have been seeking donations to just feed the kids until the end of the month.
People who get Food Stamps.
That’s not a slur against the families or the soldiers themselves.
The “Welfare Cadillac” Food Stamp Queen (who is invariably depicted as Black, although our Republican “Friend” tells us that the propaganda they put out is not Racist at all in any way, shape or form) Is And Always Was a Mythological Construct.
People don’t get rich off being on welfare.
Although the Right Wing Professional Liars, like for instance Glenn Beck, tell us that they do.
Remember though, in the Information Age, their lies about How Righteous and Noble the War is, how we’re obviously Winning the War, how Everybody in the Army Loves The War, How Great a Career The Army is…
Get shown simultaneously with advertisements begging for relief for their families, ads for the Army recruiting CHILDREN to quit school, give up any chance of a real educational opportunity, and Join The Storm Troopers… because they can’t retain enough of the soldiers who are already in their Glorious Wonderful Marvelous Career to keep fighting a war that was supposedly won 5 years ago.
Excuse me, that last figure is inaccurate… it was 5 1/2 years ago.
I wonder if the AIPAC Anti-Semitic types who post all these long letters that say “blah blah blah Israel is always right blah blah blah you’re ignorant to say otherwise blah blah blah how DARE you criticize people for being Babykillers blah blah blah”
I wonder if they’re getting a tax-break for it, or maybe just making money from the “Defense” Industry which is supplyin’ the (Israeli Puppet) Army with the tools of the Trade?
Or is it
D) All Of The Above.
Pardon, your hypocrisy is showing.