Wane kamfani ne ya fi samun kuɗi daga gwamnatin Amurka? Amsar: mai kera makamai Lockheed Martin. Kamar yadda Washington Post kwanan nan ruwaito, na dala biliyan 51 na tallace-tallace a cikin 2017, Lockheed ya karɓi dala biliyan 35.2 daga gwamnati, ko kuma kusa da abin da gwamnatin Trump ke gabatar da kasafin kudin Ma'aikatar Harkokin Waje ta 2019. Kuma wane kamfani ne ke matsayi na biyu idan ana maganar rabe-raben dalar masu biyan haraji? Amsar: Boeing tare da dala biliyan 26.5 kawai. Kuma ku tuna, shi ke kafin kyau sau ko da gaske fara mirgina, kamar yadda TomDispatch yau da kullum da masanin masana'antar makamai William Hartung ya bayyana a yau a cikin zurfin nutsewa cikin (ir) gaskiyar kasafin kudin Pentagon. Lokacin da ya zo ga Ma'aikatar Tsaro, ko da yake, watakila ya kamata mu yi ritaya daga kalmar "kasafin kuɗi" gaba ɗaya, idan aka yi la'akari da kamewa. Ba za mu iya samun wata kalma gaba ɗaya ba? Kamar Pentagon cornucopia?
Wani lokaci, yana da wuya a yi imani cewa cikakken rahoto game da batutuwan bayar da tallafi na Pentagon ba satar a cikin salon New Yorker's Andy Borowitz ne adam wata. Dauki, misali, a rahoton kwanan nan a cikin Washington malamin duba cewa Sakataren Sojoji Mark Esper da sauran jami'an Pentagon a yanzu na kira da'a hadakai Majalisa ta sake su daga wa'adin ranar 30 ga Satumba don tarwatsa kudaden gudanar da ayyukansu da kulawa (kimanin kashi 40% na kasafin kudin ma'aikatar). A cikin fassarar, suna gaya wa Majalisa cewa suna da kuɗi fiye da yadda za su iya kashewa a cikin lokacin da aka ba su.
Yana da wahala a tilasta muku kashe makudan kudade cikin gaggawa lokacin, alal misali, kuna ƙaddamar da makaman nukiliya "tseren" na daya ta hanyar “zamantawa” abin da ya riga ya kasance mafi ci gaba a cikin arsenal a cikin shekaru 30 masu zuwa don kawai tiriliyan-da dala ( jimlar da, idan aka ba da tarihin kasafin kuɗi na Pentagon, tabbas zai tashi da sauri). A cikin wannan mahallin, bari Hartung ya shigar da ku cikin duniyar ban mamaki na abin da, a cikin shekarun Donald, za a iya tunanin (tare da daidaitawa a zuciya) azaman Plutocratic Pentagon. Tom
- Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch
Daidaita Bloat na Kasafin Kuɗi
ka yi tunanin wani makircin da aka kai masu biyan haraji na Amurka zuwa ga masu tsaftacewa har na daruruwan biliyoyin daloli kuma da kyar aka samu alamun suka ko kuma bacin rai. Ka yi tunanin cewa Fadar White House da yawancin 'yan siyasa a Washington, ko da jam'iyya, sun yarda da wannan tsari. A zahiri, nema na shekara-shekara don haɓaka kashe kashen Pentagon a cikin ɓangarorin a kai a kai yana bin wannan yanayin sosai, wanda ke taimakawa ta tsinkaya na halakar da ke gabatowa daga. shaho masu kudin masana'antu tare da sha'awar ƙarin kashe kuɗin soja.
Yawancin Amurkawa tabbas suna sane da cewa Pentagon tana kashe kuɗi da yawa, amma da wuya su fahimci yadda ainihin waɗannan kuɗin ke da yawa. Sau da yawa, ana ɗaukar kasafin kuɗi na soja mai ban mamaki kamar suna cikin tsarin yanayi, kamar mutuwa ko haraji.
Alkaluman da ke kunshe a cikin yarjejeniyar kasafin kudi na baya-bayan nan wadanda suka sa Majalisa ta bude, da kuma a cikin kudirin kasafin kudi na Shugaba Trump na 2019, sun kasance misali: Dala biliyan 700 na Pentagon da shirye-shiryen da ke da alaƙa a 2018 da dala biliyan 716 a shekara mai zuwa. Abin sha'awa, irin waɗannan lambobin sun zarce ko da fa'idar da Pentagon ta yi tsammani. A cewar Donald Trump, ba shakka ba shine madogara mafi aminci ba a kowane yanayi, Sakataren Tsaro Jim Mattis ya ruwaito ya ce, “Kai, Ba zan iya yarda cewa mun samu duk abin da muke so” — wani rare yarda daga shugaban kungiyar wanda kawai mayar da martani ga kusan duk wani kasafin kudi tsari ne don neman ƙarin.
An dakatar da martanin jama'a game da irin wannan tashin hankali na kasafin kudin Pentagon, a sanya shi a hankali. Sabanin na bara haraji kyauta ga masu hannu da shuni, jefar da dalolin haraji na kusa-kusa a Ma'aikatar Tsaro bai haifar da fushin jama'a ba. Duk da haka waɗancan raguwar haraji da haɓaka Pentagon suna da alaƙa da kusanci. Haɗin gwiwar gwamnatin Trump na biyun yana kwaikwayon tsarin gazawar Shugaba Ronald Reagan a cikin 1980s - ƙari kawai. Wani al'amari ne da na kira "Reaganomics akan steroids.” Hanyar Reagan ta haifar da tekun jan tawada da kuma mummunan rauni na hanyar sadarwar zamantakewa. Har ila yau ya haifar da koma baya mai karfi wanda daga baya ya ja da baya kara haraji kuma saita mataki don raguwa mai kaifi a cikin makaman nukiliya.
Manufofin sake fasalin Donald Trump kan shige da fice, 'yancin mata, adalcin launin fata, 'yancin LGBT, da rashin daidaiton tattalin arziki sun haifar da juriya mai ban sha'awa da haɓaka. Abin jira a gani shi ne ko irin karimcin da ya yi wa Pentagon ta hanyar biyan bukatun ɗan adam zai haifar da irin wannan koma baya.
Tabbas, yana da wahala a sami maƙalli akan abin da ake ci gaba da yi akan Pentagon lokacin da yawancin kafafen watsa labarai suka kasa fitar da gida kamar yadda ainihin waɗannan jimlar suke. Wani abin da ba kasafai ba shi ne labarin Associated Press kanun labarai "Majalisa, Trump ya ba Pentagon kasafin kudin da bai taba gani ba." Wannan tabbas ya kusa kusa da gaskiya fiye da ikirarin Mackenzie Eaglen na masu ra'ayin mazan jiya Cibiyar Harkokin Ciniki ta Amirka, wanda a cikin shekarun da suka gabata ya sami irin waɗannan uber-hawks kamar Dick Cheney da John Bolton. Ita aka bayyana sabon kasafin kudin a matsayin "ƙara mafi ƙanƙanta kowace shekara." Idan haka ne, mutum ya firgita don tunanin yadda haɓaka mara kyau zai iya kama.
Pentagon ta lashe Big
Don haka bari mu duba kudin.
Duk da cewa kasafin kudin Pentagon ya riga ya wuce rufin asiri, zai sami karin dala biliyan 165 a cikin shekaru biyu masu zuwa, sakamakon yarjejeniyar kasafin kudin majalisar da aka cimma a farkon wannan watan. Don sanya wannan adadi a cikin mahallin, ya kasance dubun biliyoyin daloli fiye da yadda Donald Trump ya nemi a ba da bazara na bara don "sake gini” Sojojin Amurka (kamar yadda ya ce). Har ma ya zarce adadin, wanda tuni ya haura na Trump, Majalisa ta amince a watan Disambar da ya gabata. Yana kawo jimlar kashe kuɗi akan Pentagon da shirye-shirye masu alaƙa na makaman nukiliya zuwa matakan sama da waɗanda aka cimma a lokacin yaƙe-yaƙe na Koriya da Vietnam a cikin 1950s da 1960s, ko ma a tsayin haɓakar sojan Ronald Reagan na 1980s. Sai kawai a cikin shekaru biyu na mulkin Barack Obama, lokacin da akwai da yawa 150,000 sojojin Amurka a Iraki da Afganistan, ko kuma kusan sau bakwai matakan ma'aikatan da aka tura wurin, sun fi kashe kudade.
Ben Freeman na Cibiyar Harkokin Siyasa ta Duniya ya sanya sabbin lambobi na kasafin kudin Pentagon a cikin hangen nesa lokacin da yake nuna cewa kusan dala biliyan 80 da aka samu a duk shekara a babban layin ma'aikatar tsakanin 2017 da 2019 zai ninka kasafin kudin ma'aikatar harkokin waje; sama da jimillar kayayyakin cikin gida na ƙasashe sama da 100; kuma ya fi dukkan kasafin kudin soja na kowace kasa a duniya, sai na kasar Sin.
'Yan jam'iyyar Democrat sun rattaba hannu kan wannan kasafin kudin majalisar a zaman wani bangare na yarjejeniyar toshe wasu daga cikin mafi munin ragi da gwamnatin Trump ta gabatar a bazarar da ta gabata. Gwamnatin, alal misali, ta kiyaye kasafin Ma'aikatar Harkokin Wajen daga yin zagon-kasa sosai kuma ta sake ba da izini ga waɗanda aka yi wa laifi. Shirin Inshorar Lafiyar Yara (CHIP) wasu shekaru 10. A cikin wannan tsari, duk da haka, Democrats kuma sun jefa miliyoyin matasa baƙi a ƙarƙashin motar bas faduwa dagewar cewa duk wani sabon kasafin kuɗi ya kare matakin da aka jinkirta don isowar ƙuruciya, ko shirin “Mafarkai,”. A halin da ake ciki, yawancin masu ra'ayin rikau na kasafin kudi na Republican sun yi farin cikin sanya hannu kan karuwar Pentagon wanda, hade da rage harajin Trump ga attajirai, kudaden da balloon gaira ke iya gani - jimillar $ 7.7 tiriliyan darajar su a cikin shekaru goma masu zuwa.
Duk da yake kashe kuɗi na cikin gida ya fi kyau a cikin yarjejeniyar kasafin kuɗin majalisa na baya-bayan nan fiye da yadda zai kasance idan an aiwatar da babban shirin Trump na 2018, har yanzu yana bayan abin da Majalisa ke saka hannun jari a Pentagon. Kuma kididdigar da Shirin Ba da fifiko na Ƙasa ya nuna cewa Ma'aikatar Tsaro tana shirin zama mafi girma mai nasara a cikin tsarin kasafin kuɗi na 2019 na Trump. Nasa share na kasafin kudi na hankali, wanda ya hada da kusan duk abin da gwamnati ke yi ban da shirye-shirye kamar Medicare da Tsaron Jama'a, zai zama naman kaza zuwa cents 61 da ba za a iya misaltuwa ba akan dala, wani babban haɓaka daga riga 54 cents akan dala a cikin shekarar ƙarshe. na gwamnatin Obama.
Abubuwan da aka ba da fifiko a cikin sabon kudurin kasafin kudi na Trump suna kara ruruwa a wani bangare sakamakon shawarar da gwamnatin ta yanke na rungumar Pentagon ta kara da cewa Majalisar ta amince da ita a watan da ya gabata, yayin da ta jefar da sabbin shawarwarin kungiyar kan kashe kudaden da ba na soji ba. Ko da yake akwai yuwuwar Majalisa za ta yi amfani da mafi girman shawarwarin gwamnatin, alkalumman da gaske suke - yanke shawara na dala biliyan 120 a cikin matakan kashe kudaden cikin gida da bangarorin biyu suka amince da su. Babban raguwar ya haɗa da rage 41% na kudade don diplomasiyya da taimakon kasashen waje; rage kashi 36% na kudade don makamashi da muhalli; sannan an rage kashi 35% na gidaje da ci gaban al’umma. Kuma wannan shine farkon. Har ila yau gwamnatin Trump na shirin kaddamar da hare-hare a kai kan sarki abinci, Medicaid, Da kuma Medicare. Yaki ne akan komai sai sojojin Amurka.
Jindadin Kamfanoni
Shirye-shiryen kasafin kuɗi na baya-bayan nan sun kawo farin ciki ga zukatan ɗaya rukuni na Amurkawa mabukata: manyan shugabannin manyan masu kwangilar makamai kamar Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, da Janar Dynamics. Suna tsammanin a bonanza daga hauhawar farashin Pentagon. Kada ku yi mamakin idan shugabannin waɗannan kamfanoni guda biyar suna ba wa kansu ƙarin albashi mai kyau, wani abu don tabbatar da aikinsu da gaske, maimakon ƙarancin kuɗi. $ 96 miliyan sun zana a matsayin rukuni a cikin 2016 (shekarar da ta fi kwanan nan wanda akwai cikakkun kididdiga).
Kuma ku tuna cewa, kamar sauran kamfanoni na Amurka, waɗancan ƙwararrun masana'antu na soja za su amfana sosai daga matakin da gwamnatin Trump ta yi na rage harajin kamfanoni. A cewar wani manazarcin masana'antu da ake mutuntawa, wani yanki mai kyau na wannan guguwar guguwar za ta je wajen kari da karuwar rabo ga masu hannun jarin kamfani maimakon saka hannun jari a sabbin kuma ingantattun hanyoyin kare Amurka. A taƙaice, a zamanin Trump, Lockheed Martin da ƙungiyarsa suna da tabbacin samun kuɗi masu zuwa da tafiya.
Abubuwan da suka kama biliyoyin sabbin kudade a cikin kasafin kudin 2019 da Trump ya gabatar ya hada da farashin Lockheed Martin da ya wuce kima, jirgin F-35 da bai yi kasa ba, akan dala biliyan 10.6; Jirgin F-18 na Boeing “Super Hornet,” wanda gwamnatin Obama ke shirin kawar da shi amma yanzu an rubuta shi akan dala biliyan 2.4; Northrop Grumman na B-21 makamin nukiliya a dala biliyan 2.3; Jirgin ruwan makami mai linzami na ballistic ajin Ohio na General Dynamics akan dala biliyan 3.9; kuma $ 12 biliyan don tsararrun shirye-shiryen kariyar makami mai linzami waɗanda za su sake komawa ga fa'idar… kun gane shi: Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, da Boeing, a tsakanin sauran kamfanoni. Waɗannan kaɗan ne kawai daga cikin ɗimbin shirye-shiryen makaman da za su ciyar da ƙarancin kamfanonin irin waɗannan kamfanoni a cikin shekaru biyu masu zuwa da bayan haka. Don shirye-shiryen har yanzu a farkon matakan su, kamar sabon maharin da sabon jirgin ruwa na makami mai linzami, shekarun kasafin kuɗin tutocin su har yanzu ba su zo ba.
A cikin bayanin kwararar kudade da ke baiwa kamfani kamar Lockheed Martin damar samun dalar Amurka biliyan 35 a duk shekara a cikin dalar gwamnati, manazarcin tsaro Richard Aboulafia na kungiyar Teal Group ya lura cewa “diflomasiya ta fita; Harin iska yana cikin… A cikin irin wannan yanayin, yana da wahala a kiyaye murfi akan farashi. Idan bukata ta haura, farashin ba ya saukowa gaba daya. Kuma, ba shakka, ba zai yuwu a kashe kaya ba. Ba lallai ne ku yi kowane irin zaɓe mai tsauri ba lokacin da ake samun irin wannan tashin hankalin.”
Pentagon Alade Da Tsaron Dan Adam
Loren Thompson mai ba da shawara ne ga yawancin waɗannan ƴan kwangilar makaman. Tunaninsa, Cibiyar Lexington, ita ma tana samun gudummawa daga masana'antar makamai. Ya kama ruhin lokacin da yake yabo Shawarar Pentagon da gwamnatin ta yi na yin amfani da kasafin kudin ma'aikatar tsaro a matsayin mai samar da ayyuka a manyan jihohi, ciki har da jihar Ohio mai mahimmanci, wanda ya taimaka wajen ciyar da Donald Trump nasara a 2016. Thompson ya gamsu musamman da wani shiri na haɓaka Janar Ƙarfafa samar da tankunan M-1 a Lima, Ohio, a cikin wata masana'anta wadda Sojoji ke da layin samarwa gwada don dakatar da shi a 'yan shekarun da suka gabata saboda ya riga ya nutse a cikin tankuna kuma ba shi da wani amfani ga yawancin su.
Thompson jayayya cewa ana bukatar sabbin tankunan ne don ci gaba da kera motoci masu sulke da Rasha ke kerawa, wani shakku kan furucin da ke da dandanon yakin cacar baka. Da'awarsa ita ce goyon baya, ba shakka, ta hanyar sabuwar dabarar tsaron kasa ta gwamnatin, wacce ta shafi Rasha da China a matsayin barazana mafi girma ga Amurka. Kada ku manta cewa yuwuwar ƙalubalen da waɗannan manyan ƙasashe biyu za su iya haifarwa - hare-hare ta yanar gizo a cikin lamarin Rasha da faɗaɗa tattalin arziki a China - ba su da alaƙa da yawan tankunan da sojojin Amurka suka mallaka.
Trump yana son ƙirƙirar ayyuka, ayyuka, ayyukan yi da zai iya nunawa, da haɓaka rukunin masana'antu na soja dole ne ya zama kamar hanyar mafi ƙarancin juriya ga wannan ƙarshen a Washington ta yau. A karkashin yanayi, menene mahimmancin cewa kusan kowane nau'in ciyarwa zai yi haifar da ƙarin ayyuka kuma ba sirdi ga Amurkawa da makami ba mu bukata?
Idan aikin da ya gabata ya ba da wata alama, babu wani sabon kuɗin da aka tsara don zubawa a cikin Pentagon da zai sa kowa ya fi aminci. Kamar yadda Todd Harrison na Cibiyar Dabarun Dabaru da Nazarin Kasa da Kasa ya lura, akwai haɗari cewa Pentagon zai sami kawai "mai kiba bai fi karfi ba” kamar yadda mafi munin halin kashe kuɗi ke ƙarfafawa ta hanyar sabon ɗimbin daloli wanda ke sauƙaƙawa masu tsara shi yin duk wani zaɓi mai wahala kwata-kwata.
Jerin kashe kashen da aka kashe ya riga ya yi tsayi sosai kuma hasashen farko shine cewa sharar gida a ma'aikatar Pentagon za ta yi yawa. $ 125 biliyan nan da shekaru biyar masu zuwa. Daga cikin wasu abubuwa, Ma'aikatar Tsaro ta riga ta yi amfani da a inuwa aiki karfi sama da ƴan kwangila masu zaman kansu 600,000 waɗanda nauyinsu ya yi yawa tare da aikin da ma'aikatan gwamnati ke yi. A halin da ake ciki, ayyukan saye-sayen a kai a kai suna haifar da labarai kamar na kwanan nan akan Hukumar Kula da Dabarun Tsaro ta Pentagon ta rasa yadda take. ciyar Dala miliyan 800 da yadda umarnin Amurka biyu suka kasance kasa yin lissafi don dala miliyan 500 da aka ware don yaki da kwayoyi a Gabas ta Tsakiya da Afirka.
Ƙara zuwa wannan $ 1.5 tiriliyan wanda aka tsara za a kashe shi akan F-35s wanda aikin da ba na bangaranci ba kan sa ido na Gwamnati ke da shi ya lura maiyuwa ba zai taɓa kasancewa a shirye don yaƙi da “zamanin zamani” na makaman nukiliyar Amurka ba, gami da sabon ƙarni na masu amfani da makaman nukiliya, jiragen ruwa, da makamai masu linzami a ƙaramin farashi. $ 1.2 tiriliyan nan da shekaru talatin masu zuwa. A takaice dai, babban bangare na sabon kudade na Pentagon zai yi matukar yin amfani da kuzari mai kyau a cikin rukunin soja-masana'antu amma kadan don taimakawa sojoji ko kare kasar.
Mafi mahimmanci, wannan ambaliya na sabon kudade, wanda zai iya murkushe tsarar Amurkawa a ƙarƙashin dutsen bashi, zai sauƙaƙe don ci gaba da ci gaba da zama mara iyaka. bakwai yaƙe-yaƙe cewa Amurka tana yaki a Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, da Yemen. Don haka kira wannan ɗaya daga cikin mafi munin saka hannun jari a tarihi, tabbatar da yadda ya gaza yaƙe-yaƙe har zuwa sararin samaniya.
Zai zama abin maraba da sauyi a cikin Amurka na ƙarni na ashirin da ɗaya idan shawarar da aka yi na jefar da kuɗaɗen da ba za a iya yarda da su ba a ma'aikatar Pentagon da ta rigaya ta cika da yawa ta haifar da tattaunawa mai mahimmanci game da manufofin ketare na sojan Amurka. Tattaunawar kasa game da irin waɗannan batutuwan a cikin shirye-shiryen zaɓe na 2018 da 2020 na iya tantance ko ta ci gaba da zama kasuwanci-kamar yadda aka saba a Pentagon ko kuma a ƙarshe an dawo da babbar hukuma a cikin gwamnatin tarayya kuma an sake mayar da ita zuwa daidai. matsayi na tsaro.
William D. Hartung, a TomDispatch yau da kullum, shi ne darektan shirin makamai da tsaro a cibiyar manufofin kasa da kasa kuma marubucin Mashawartan War: Lockheed Martin da Yin Ginin Ƙungiyar Harkokin Kasuwanci.
Follow TomDispatch on Twitter kuma ku shiga mu Facebook. Duba sabon littafin Bayarwa, na Alfred McCoy's A cikin Shafin ƙarni na Amurka: Tashi da Rage ikon Duniya na Amurka, da kuma John Dower's Ƙasar Amirka ta Mugunta: War da Terror Tun yakin duniya na biyu, Littafin dystopian na John Feffer Splinterlands, Nick Turse's Nan gaba za su zo su ƙidaya matattu, da Tom Engelhardt's Shadow Gwamnati: Kulawa, Wakilin Wuri, da Tsaro na Duniya a Ƙasar Kasuwanci.
