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Guns or butter

Chapter 33

 

 

  

The vicious circle of our own consumption generates more artificial wants. The poor whom we have forgotten both at home and out in the world, must be fought off so that they will not take our heaped-up goods.

  

  

Now when populations feeling marginalized by globalization and our unfair trade barriers begin to realize that they may never be "part of the world" and will  remain perpetually poor and unemployed, we are forced to invest billions to fight terrorism and to defend ourselves against the ghettos at home - not least against the terrorism we are breeding in Europe's ghettos by marginalizing our Muslims.

  

  

In Norfolk, one of the world's biggest ports for warships, this starved woman tried to get to hospital for heart trouble, but she had no money for an ambulance. Every morning from her bed she sees warships being built through her dirty windows. Without electricity and TV, her only entertainment all day is an aircraft carrier dimly seen in the background.

  

  

In the glow of the kerosene lamp she may through her dirty window by glimpses get impressions of the world drama......warships burning up more energy in one second than her house would use in a 100 years...

  

  

For God's sake,
give more power to the people.

  

  

Statesmen are trying to see who's got
the power to kill the most.
When they are tired of power
the world is going to be a ghost.

  

  

They know we're not satisfied
the way they scream and holler.
They give us a promise
and throw in a few more dollars.

  

  

There's no price for happiness,
there's no price for love.
Up goes the price of living
and you're right back where you were.

  

  

Now we're going to get on up
and get some more of it.
For God's sake, give more power to the people...

  

  

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