8-Mile America

Every day, the irrationality and brokenness of this Empire plumbs new depths. Wall Street's sleazoid scam artists are rolling in billions, while our children -- our *future*, the last people who should ever be made to suffer for the mistakes and follies of adults -- are thrown on the scrap-heap.

There's just no money for the kids, cry the partisans of Empire.

There's plenty of money.

It's just spent on trillion-dollar bailouts for failed banksters and trillion-dollar budgets for failed colonial wars.

This shambles of a dying Empire now spends more on war than it did during the Cold War, despite the fact that (1) 80% of humanity lives in electoral democracies, and (2) China has a small military and is undergoing significant democratization. Here are the numbers:




Source: Military Budget of the United States