[lbo-talk] DC

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Leigh:
> Because, as a nation, we are all absoeffinlutely dependent on the
> Military Industrial Complex to pump some money into the top of the
> US economy to keep the basic infrastructure running, while they
> figure out how to build an empire on the tax base of a nation
> of pizza delivery drivers and low wage DPs from the Gulf.
> 
> 
> You might think I'm joking, but you'll laugh alone.

I think it is only partially true.  This represents only one camp of the
ruling class - let's call them military nationalists.  The other camp
consists of international finanz kapitaliststs who build empire by swindling
out money of low wage workers world-wide.  These two camps may be competing
for public image - bunker-headed nationalism vs. neo-liberal globalism, but
they are actually two sides of the same coin - or using analogy - "a bad cop
and a good cop" seemingly opposite of each other but working in tandem
toward the same end.

Wojtek