Soft?

There are certain cliches that are heard so often, that we become immune to their real meaning. They are mindlessly repeated, along with being presumed to be understood.

A favorite is "soft on defense."

Generally anyone that even slightly or minutely, somehow manages to indirectly question the hugely over-bloated military budget in the US is "soft on defense."

Bush, however, could never ever be accused of being "soft on defense,"

Bush budget pinches domestic spending

The headline reveals a lot.

Bush sees entitlements as something to obliterate, and the Pentagon budget as something to enhance dramatically, and in the case of his new budget, increase by a record amount, $50 billion specifically. Ultimately the idea appears to be to direct the entire budget to the military.

For the ultra pro war Bush along with his uber-imperialistic neo-con supporters, this is par for the course: all part of Bush's "No Military Related Aspect of the Massive Military-Industrial-Prison-Economic Fortress Empire Left Behind" program.

Who can blame him. The enemy is possibly as many as 10,000 Al Qaeda or as Bush calls them "folks." With a Pentagon budget in the range of $600 billion dollars, that factors out to about $60,000,000. for each one of those "folks." Makes sense to me, because isn't this what I'm supposed to believe.

Perhaps when the budget factors out to $1,000,000,000 per each "folk" then somebody gets caught.

We are continuing to witness the dissolution of America. We saw with Katrina that the priority of the government is not involved with the support of the American people.

We see how Bush has replaced actual skilled professionals with those that strictly support his policies and we see what those policies are.

This is the further tightening of the noose on society and the loosening of the tiny ribbon on empire.