Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 totally irresponsible on perpetual war spending.

 Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 totally irresponsible on perpetual war spending.

The Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 caps defense spending at a gargantuan $886 billion. That is nearly two and a half times that of our two imagined enemies China and Russia combined.

Congressional hawks are furious the bill caps defense spending, arguing it imperils US defense interests. They didn’t acknowledge, however, that those defense interests are not the American people; just the defense industry interests that lavishly fund those same hawks to remain in Congress indefinitely.

Not to worry congressional hawks. Our government allows virtually unlimited spending on what’s designated as an ‘emergency requirement or for overseas contingency operations’. For example…that $113 billion we’ve squandered getting thousands of folks unnecessarily killed in Ukraine to defeat Russia when a peace deal was at hand 14 months ago.

Those overseas contingency ops also include billions to ramp up our impending military confrontation with China over Taiwan.

That’s US fiscal policy in 2023. Budget caps preventing America from thriving and remaining competitive at home. Blank check for perpetual war overseas.

Walt Zlotow

West Suburban Peace Coalition

Glen Ellyn IL 

Krishnamoorthi in total denial of sinking American competitive edge to China.

 Krishnamoorthi in total denial of sinking American competitive edge to China.

IL 8^th District Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi’s Chicago Tribune op-ed ‘How we can win the economic contest with China’ should have been titled ‘How we lost the economic contest with China.’

He presents a number of startling economic figures showing China has already passed America as the most dynamic world economy, getting stronger every day while America’s economy stagnates from irresponsible disinvestment. 

Krishnamoorthi’s prescription to halt this undeniable US, China reversal of fortune is pure happy talk with no specifics. His top 5 cures?

1. Protect US from unfair trade practices

2. Up our game

3. Make sure we’re prepared to lead and innovate

4. Harden our supply chains

5. Build strong worldwide partnerships

Krishnamoorthi, who is all in for promoting American exceptionalism, totally ignores 22 years of perpetual US warfare, gobbling up trillions in precious resources needed to grow a strong economy. He’s promoting partnerships when the US sanctions dozens of countries who don’t buckle to US demands. He ignores that our government continually enriches the billionaire class to the detriment of the tens of millions in poverty. Worst of all, Krishnamoorthi offers not a word on America blindly rushing toward possible nuclear confrontation with both China and Russia simultaneously. Should that occur, any talk of economic competition will be moot.

China, meanwhile, invests in numerous countries rather than bombing or sanctioning them. China’s reputation worldwide continues to soar. America’s? Many countries now consider the US the world’s biggest threat to peace. While the US pours over $100 billion to keep the killing fields ablaze in Ukraine, China proposes ceasefire and negotiations to snuff them out.

Rep, Krishnamoorthi pretends US is still No. 1 and can stay that way. His op-ed refutes that with shocking Chinese economic advancements already putting America in its rear-view mirror. Rep. Krishnamoorthi needs to check his vision. China is ahead….and pulling away.

US warmongers rule on offense budget talks

   US warmongers rule on offense budget talks

A sign how America keeps descending into the madness of perpetual war on full display in the 24/7 coverage of Biden-McCarthy budget talks to avoid a financial meltdown.

Every dollar sliced from the budget comes from domestic spending, woefully inadequate before the cuts, to reinvigorate America’s declining living standard. But McCarthy gave Biden every one of the $886 billion he wanted to ramp up US proxy war on Russia, and push China into a possible nuclear confrontation over Taiwan. That’s not defense folks, so let’s call it what it is…offense, offense, offense. Some of that squandered dough will add to America’s 835 overseas bases with new ones is Finland, Syria and Iraq. That’s roughly 4 bases for each of the other 194 world countries.

But many GOP offense hawks howled for more, more, more offense. America’s premier warmonger, Sen. Lindsey Graham, was his usual apoplectic self on such an inadequate amount for his pet project, perpetual warfare. “The Biden defense budget was a joke before, and if we adopt it as Republicans, we will be doing a big disservice to the party of Ronald Reagan. The biggest winner of the Biden defense budget is China because they’ll have a bigger navy.” Graham failed to add that at $886 billion, the US offense budget is two and a half times that of arch enemies China and Russia combined.

The final ’24 US budget not yet in the can. But whatever the outcome, America’s wild overspending on maintaining its worldwide dominance, established at the end of WWII, ensures America’s continued descent into the ashcan of overextended, failed empires.