The nukes in Iran arguement is just the next "weapons of mass destruction" cry that gives the military industrial complex an emotional banner to wave to keep the indoctrinated roused up and distracted from reality
The real issue is the economy and the tax burden placed on the working people to continue subsidiseing a nontenable investment of "fixing the economy" by pumping the tax dollars into black holes created by:
ONE: the oil companies that have had our sons and daughters die to protect the oil companies investments in foriegn nations only to sell the oil on the world market without reguard for the lives and sweat and dollars that the citizens of this country have afforded them. The support of the taxpayers and soldiers of this counrty, is the only possible means for the oil companies to occupy those foriegn lands.
TWO; by the corporate manufacturers of war materials , which includes the petrochemical industry. One of the largest single tax burdens.
THREE, unregulated banks, that subsidised the realestate bubblel,
To get the budget problem resolved as Ron Paul want's to do, get rid of the debt, it won't be as simple and painless as it sounds. Removeing the debt will come through a mass of bankruptcies and reorganizations. It will be another depression blood letting. There is no painless way to get the return to real relative values, price to earnings, accomplished.
Those that have trapped themselves in that inflation bubble will scream the loudest not to pop it but until we do, get rid of the debt, the middle class will continue to disappear and the youth of our country will have no future.
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(The goal of the oil companies to build the new pipeline from Canada to the gullf is to afford cheaper access to the world market year round.)