by Mj Ferruzza

Created on: March 24, 2010   Last Updated: March 27, 2010

Ike warned us about the industrial military complex. They must be fed. There are contracts that have to be fulfilled.  We must build bombs. We must keep our military stocked and defense contractors in business. There will never be a time in future US history, when the military complex (defense contractors) will not lie, cheat and steal just to keep big money rolling in.

Vietnam proved that a war does not make an economy soar. Especially as the nation soured on such a long conflict.  Hippies and country club types wanted women to bypass college because one woman in college was putting a draftee into war. Feminist movement? Thank men for that... but also the military industrial complex who got rich from the idiocy of conflict in Southeast Asia.

Nixon proved the White House can be run by greedy SOB's who thought they could be above the law. He was caught in his advisers web of foul play. The US government lost the people's respect.

Jimmy Carter was an outsider. Outsiders can't play the game. He was taken to task with the Iran Hostage Crisis. He lost. US cried for a tougher military to protect us, not a wimp Prez.

Reagan arrives... and its all Rah Rah. What a Patriot! Reagan cleaned up Nixon's mess and made the Presidency something of an ideal. He all but outspent the entire Russian Communist State with his pretend vision of a Star Wars Military Space Platform. Russia fell for it and drove the country into a thirdrd world economy. Great dodge. But Reagan also pays terrorists to bring hostages back with guarantee of arms.  Then he forgets about it in front of Congress.  America loves him in his second term because he recovered from gunshot (though his Alzheimer's was more dire to his presidency).

George Bush Sr. kicked ass in Desert Storm I. But after the war, he couldn't fool the American people that the economy was going to be ok. Saddam survived Desert Storm I, Bush didn't. He wasn't re-elected.

Past all of his personal dalliances, Clinton was a good president. Rhodes scholar.  People had jobs. Economy was  robust. But at what cost? Clinton's economic advisers allowed financial institutions to trade unsecured investments. At  some point, it just all had to collapse.

Bush Jr. was an idiot. He wasn't prepared for the job. But just like Nixon, he had handlers.  Most of them, cronies from his father's administration. The only reason George W.  had a second term was because his people were able to play the terrorist threat

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