WAR REPARATION

WAR REPARATION

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I never gave much thought to “war reparation”, whether it was the United States paying for a country’s rebuilding efforts at the end of a military intrusion by the United States and her allies. I would suppose that dumping scads of taxpayer funds into countries that the U.S. preemptively engaged in military action might be justified. However in the aftermath of the 2^nd World War when the United States forked over $17 billion which would be about $120 billion in its worth today, to rebuild Europe, that has always kind of been a thorn in my bonnet.

 

I never fully understood that mentality of rebuilding what had been torn down, or bombed to smithereens. I was kind of under the naïve thinking process that when a country invades, and acquires property, natural elements and people, that once the dust of war cleared the offenders (if they’d been defeated) would have to pony up the dough. Having to rebuild their land as well as those that they invaded was kind of like punishment for causing the war, or so I feel.

 

Oh, I understand that after Germany was defeated in World War II, they did not have the funds necessary for the extensive rebuilding efforts. Still the country should still be held responsible for the cost of rebuilding what they ripped apart. People must have thought that the money that the United States Government used in reconstructing Europe grew on trees.

 

I understand that decades after the European Recovery Program (ERP) or the Marshall Plan ran its four year course of spending that $17 billion dollars it is almost silly to question the veracity of what went down more than 68 years ago, but I’d really like for somebody to justify spending taxpayer dollars to help boost the European economy, to rebuild war devastated regions, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, make Europe prosperous, and prevent the spread of communism. However I have a strong feeling that stopping the spread of communism was of paramount importance to the program.  

 

Does anybody believe here in the 21^st century that that $17 billion dollars all went to Europe for a rebuilding and humanitarian effort…..I didn’t think so. The debacle that Iraq and Afghanistan have been with regards to the suit-cases and cardboard boxes full of American taxpayer dollars disappearing, I’m sure happened after 1945 in Europe.

 

You see, “we get the old cattle prod when we come into this life and when we leave”. What our slick authority figures do is to cajole the American taxpayers into a war which costs trillions, with mostly our young people possibly being shot to death…..and when hostilities are at an end, these same war hawk authority figures suddenly turn humanitarian and dish out American taxpayer money to rebuild what they’ve crushed. It’s really a sweet situation for the current authority figures, and the next general of these people.

 

HOWEVER IT’S NOT ONLY EUROPE THAT NEEDS REBUILDING BY U.S. TAXPAYERS

We don’t usually equate war reparations payouts here in the United States, no, it’s usually some little Iraq, or Afghani village that we’ve never heard of and much less can say. However that has all changed, and we have us to thank  for what seems to be happening with greater frequency here in the U.S.

 

Some U.S. cities seem to be addressing police brutality the same way that our high ranking governmental authority figures do with rebuilding our war torn military escapades around the world…..using tax dollars to repay victims who have been wronged with regards to how their lives were torn apart.

 

I read several articles about these reparations, and I sat bolt upright during my morning coffee and bananas and knew exactly what I’d have to blog about today. Seems like American citizens are a little like all of those innocent German’s during World War II that had absolutely no idea about Hitler’s genocide of the Jewish people.

 

Those’s right, right here in the United States helpless imprisoned people, mostly black, are subjected to all sorts of physical degradation. Come on, we know that this happens all of the time, and that the vast majority of these people (like I mentioned) are black.

 

Let’s get this straight, in war the United States and her allies invade a country because there is a feeling that the country invaded MIGHT be planning some sort of attack against the U.S. or one of her allies…..in the future. So our authority figures figure it’s better to strike first and ask questions later…..and then, when the answers to the questions don’t quite fit the reason for the sorties that U.S. taxpayers have just paid for…..our authority figures decide that we have to partake in the rebuilding process because they made an oops. And where does that money come from…..well ladies and gentlemen, get to diggin once again, cause we just got another tax bill.

 

Sadly the exact same thing is happening right here in the United States, this time in the form of the country’s policing agencies. Yup those big bellied, muscle-bound, red-necked peace officers are overstepping their bounds again…..actually still! You didn’t really think that today’s law-enforcement agencies invented brutal and rough treatment to the people that they arrest…..did you?

 

Chi-town will be paying a cool $5.5 million to victims that have had the crap kicked out of them by Chicago’s finest for decades. Milwaukee will be paying almost half a million dollars for illegal strip searches. Los Angeles has millions of dollars pending in court battles with dozens of men and women who have been rousted by LA cops.

 

And those victims who have lost their lives as the result of police brutality numbers in the thousands, and the pending lawsuit settlements are astronomical…..try in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

 

I have always had a problem with public employees saying that they “serve the public”, it has just never rang true for me. Cops, firefighters, street sweepers, sanitation department people, dog catchers usually feel that they’ve gotten themselves a pretty good gig. Benefits are great, the pay is raised in increments and retirement is dynamite.

 

Oh sure cops and firefighters have a tough, and sometimes dangerous job, but it still usually beats working for a living. I speak from experience here also, my wife was one of those public servants and retired from her job a couple of years ago with some pretty impressive benefits…..I’m not complaining.

 

BUT NOW WE GET TO THE REAL NITTY-GRITTY

We still have time, not much, but time none-the-less, there are some good and decent cops out there, and I’m sure that they are like me and you, abhorred to what they see on their jobs every day. For them to stand up and point fingers has always been a ridiculous statement for the hierarchy of police authority figures to say.

 

You’ve heard of the blue wall, well it goes deeper than any wall of silence that ordinary people have ever encountered. You see cops are a different breed of kitty-cat, they covet their authority, and they seem to have an extra load of testosterone surging through their bodies. A goodly number of cops are control freaks, who must be in charge…..and usually do not make mistakes.

 

There are several things that the common citizens (us) need to do to retake our streets, number one is to realize that all black people, or people of color, are bad people. Actually they’re just about like white people…..(white, just another color) and we need to come to grips with that fact.

 

Police forces are bankrolled by…..guess who, us taxpayers, so we can actually dictate to them what we want done, and how it needs to be accomplished. Non-violence needs to be the order of the day.

 

And finally, possibly the hardest part of this equation is the fact that we need to govern ourselves, and the way we think, say and do. Involvement is paramount to success here, instead of selfies, be taking pictures of cops doing what they perceive as their jobs. What we have, in the final analyses is a responsibility to ourselves, and our kids. We need to be checking our so called authority figures to ensure that they are doing the jobs that we hired them to do.

HAVE A NICE DAY!