Email To A Friend While listening to J.S. Bach

Dear Friend,

I don't think much has changed since C. Wright Mill's Power Elite. I think your friend is correct in his view - just follow the money. By the time a person is elected to congress or becomes president, he or she is already paid for, and bent in the direction of his/her 'betters'/sponsors. Legislation is written and paid for by special interest groups, legitimized by 'think-tanks', and unread, mis-understood, enacted by congress and the president.

   How could the USA have been in a continuous state of war since Korea? How is it that we need 850+/- military bases around the world?  It's still the military-industrial complex. I still Like Ike! I have a very high opinion of our military - lots of smart people.
   I have a very low opinion of our political 'leadership'.
   What is one of the two major exports of the USA? Arms and military technology. Our wars are terrible advertisements for US Arms Dealers. The USA sells a lot of arms around the world, to everyone and almost anyone. It's not guns or butter; it's guns all the way down and all around - Israel, Pakistan, .... "Who will buy and sample ... (our) supply? (Arms) for sale."

   When Thomas Friedman of the stolid New York Times calls for a third party, things are a lot worse than we imagine

Happy Days,

Rayesti

P.S.: Back to Philippe Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale Gent - Bach Motets BWV 225 - 230.

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