You can't deliver on hope and change when you have a vast government apparatus eating up 35 percent of gross domestic product and your program is to increase it. Here are the projected numbers for fiscal year 2009, according to usgovernmentspending.com.
Pension Industrial Complex: 5.9% GDPYep, that military industrial complex doesn't look quite as big and frightening today as it did in 1961 when President Eisenhower first mentioned it.
Medical Industrial Complex: 6.4% GDP
Education Industrial Complex: 5.8% GDP
Military Industrial Complex: 5.4% GDP
With so much money sloshing around you'd think that there would be plenty in there for change -- to look after seniors, to cure the sick, and educate the children. After all, the Pentagon is fighting a couple of foreign wars on its share of the national product. But Sen. Obama doesn't think so. He's not proposing to change very much. He is more into increases.
He proposes to increase the size of the medical industrial complex to extend health insurance to the 50 million uninsured. He's proposing to increase the size of the education industrial complex by introducing universal pre-kindergarten to pre-schoolers. And he's proposing to increase the size of the welfare industrial complex by giving "tax cuts" to people who don't pay federal income tax.
And the military? Well, something's got to be cut...
[to th tune of 25% if Barney Frank gets his way]
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