Ndeipi kambani inowana mari yakawanda kubva kuhurumende yeUS? Mhinduro: iyo kugadzira zvombo Lockheed Martin. Sezvo Washington Post ichangopfuura Zvinonzi, yemadhora ayo mazana mana emadhora 51 mukutengesa mu2017, Lockheed akatora $ 35.2 bhiriyoni kubva kuhurumende, kana padyo neizvo hutongi hwaTrump hurikuda kubhajeti re2019 State department. Uye ndeyipi kambani iri munzvimbo yechipiri kana tasvika pakubvarura mumutero wemutero? Mhinduro: Boeing ine chete $ 26.5 bhiriyoni. Uye yeuka iwe, izvo nguva idzo dzakanaka dzisati dzatanga kutangisa, senge TomDispatch dzose uye nyanzvi yezvigadzirwa zvezvombo William Hartung anojekesa nhasi mukudonha kwakadzika mukati me (ir) chaiwoiwo ebhajeti rePentagon. Kana zvasvika kuDhipatimendi rezveDziviriro, zvakadaro, pamwe isu tinofanirwa kurega iro izwi rekuti "bhajeti" zvachose, tichipa chirevo charo chekudzivirira. Hatigoni kuwana rimwe izwi zvachose? Kufanana nePentagon cornucopia?
Dzimwe nguva, zvakaoma kutenda kuti zvakakwana kutaura kwakashata nezvePentagon nyaya dzemari hazvisi mukutu New Yorker's Andy Borowitz. Tora, semuenzaniso, a mushumo wapfupi mu Washington Examiner kuti secretary Secretary Mark Esper nevamwe vakuru vePentagon vava kukurudzira Congress kuvasunungura kubva munaGunyana 30th nguva yekuparadzira zvizere mashandiro avo uye mari yekuchengetedza (inenge 40% yebhajeti rebazi). Mukududzira, ivo vari kuudza Congress kuti vane mari yakawanda kupfuura yavanogona kushandisa munguva yakatarwa.
Zvakaoma kumanikidzwa kushandisa mari yakawanda mumhanyisa kana, semuenzaniso, uri kuvhura a maoko enyukireya "nhangemutange" yeimwe ne “kuvandudza” izvo zvatova zvemberi kukunda kwepadenga pane inotevera 30 makore pane chete trillion-kuwedzera madhora (mari iyo, yakapihwa nhoroondo yePentagon bhajeti, ine chokwadi chekukwira zvakanyanyisa). Muchirevo ichocho, rega Hartung akupinze iwe munyika inoshamisa yeiko, munguva yeDonald, ingafungidzirwe pamusoro (ine alliteration mupfungwa) sePlutocratic Pentagon. Tom
-Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch
Normalizing Budgetary Bloat
magine kwechinguvana chirongwa umo vateresi veAmerica vakaendeswa kune vanochenesa kusvika pamazana emabhiriyoni emadhora uye pakanga pasina kana chiratidzo chekushoropodza kana kutsamwa. Fungidzira zvakare kuti White House uye vazhinji vezvematongerwo enyika muWashington, zvisinei nebato, vakabvuma muhurongwa. Muchokwadi, kuda kwegore negore kwekusimudzira Pentagon kushandisa mu stratosphere kunowanzo tevera iwo chaiwo mamiriro, uchibatsirwa nekufungidzira kwekusvika kwekuparadzwa kubva indasitiri-inotsigirwa nembavha nechikwereti chinofarira kuwedzera nzvimbo dzehondo.
Vazhinji maAmerican vanogona kunge vachiziva kuti Pentagon inoshandisa mari yakawanda, asi hazvigoneke kuti vanonzwisisa kukura kwakaita mari idzi. Kazhinji kazhinji, zvinoshamisa kwazvo mabhajeti emauto anotorwa senge iwo aive chikamu chechisikigo, sekufa kana mutero.
Aya manhamba ari muchibvumirano chebhajeti chazvino chakachengeta Congress yakavhurika, pamwe nehurongwa hwaMutungamiri Trump bhajeti ye2019, inyaya iripo: madhora mazana manomwe emadhora ePentagon uye nezvirongwa zvakabatana mu700 uye $ 2018 bhiriyoni gore rinotevera. Zvinoshamisa kuti, nhamba dzakadai dzakapfuura kunyange iyo Pentagon pachayo tarisiro yakakura. Sekureva kwaDonald Trump, haabvumirwe kuva sosi yakavimbika mune zvese zviitiko, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis anonzi akati, "Wow, handigoni kutenda kuti tine zvese zvataida" - kashoma kubvuma kubva kumukuru wesangano rine mhinduro chete kune chero bhajeti chikumbiro kukumbira zvimwe.
Kuita kweruzhinji kune kwakadzika kudaro kwePentagon bhajeti yekubhuroka yakamiswa, kuti zviise zvinyoro nyoro. Kusiyana gore rapfuura mutero unopa kune vapfumi, vachikanda padyo-rekodhi zviyero zvemadhora emitero kuDhipatimendi reDziviriro hazvina kukonzera kutsamwa kwevanhu. Asi izvo kuderedzwa kwemitero uye kuwedzerwa kwePentagon zvakabatana zvakanyanya. Iyo Trump manejimendi manejimendi evaviri vanoteedzera nzira yakakundikana yeMutungamiri Ronald Reagan muma1980 - zvakatonyanya kudaro. Icho chiitiko chandadoma "Reaganomics pane steroid. ” Maitiro aReagan akaburitsa makungwa einki tsvuku uye kupera simba kwakanyanya kwenzanga yekuchengetedza mambure. Izvo zvakatsamwisawo yakasimba pushback zvekuti iye akazodzokera kumashure kukwirisa mutero uye gadza nhanho kudzika kwakapinza mune zvombo zvenyukireya.
Maitiro aDonald Trump ekudzokororazve marongero ekupinda munyika, kodzero dzevakadzi, kururamisira kwemarudzi, kodzero dzeLBBT, uye kusaenzana kwehupfumi kwakakonzera kushora kunoshamisa uye kuri kukura. Zvinosara kuti zvionekwe kana kurapa kwake kwenyasha kwePentagon nekumhanyisa kwezvinodiwa nevanhu kuchakonzera kumukira kwakafanana.
Ehe, zvakangooma kuti utore beanda pane izvo zvasarudzika paPentagon apo yakawanda yeredhiyo inoburitsa yakatadza kutyaira kumba zvakakura sei mari idzi. Chisingawanzoitika kunze yaive nyaya yakabatana neColor akaiswa musoro "Congress, VaTrump Vanopa Pentagon Bhajeti iyo Izvo Izvo Izvo Isati Yamboona." Chokwadi izvi zvaive pedyo nekure pachokwadi pane izvo zvinotaurwa saMackenzie Eaglen wechengetedzo. American Enterprise Institute, iyo pamusoro pemakore yakagara mauber-hawks akadai saDick Cheney naJohn Bolton. Iye yakatsanangurwa bhajeti nyowani se "zvine mwero gore-rimwe gore rinowedzera." Kana zvirizvo, mumwe munhu anotya kufunga kuti kungaita senge kuwedzera kwakanyanya.
Pentagon Inokunda Huru
Saka ngatitarisei mari yacho.
Kunyangwe bhajeti rePentagon rakanga ratopfuura nepadenga, ichawedzera imwe $ 165 bhiriyoni pamakore maviri anotevera, nekuda kwechibvumirano chebumbiro remusangano chakasvika pakutanga kwemwedzi uno. Kuisa huwandu ihwohwo mumamiriro ezvinhu, aive makumi emabhiriyoni emadhora kupfuura akange akumbirwa naDonald Trump svondo rapfuura kuti "akavakazve”Mauto eU.S. (sekutaura kwake). Yakatodarika manhamba, yakatokwira kupfuura yaTrump, Congress yakanga yabvuma kupedza Zvita. Inounza mari yakazara paPentagon uye nezvirongwa zvakanangana nezvombo zvenyukireya kusvika pamatanho akakwirira kupfuura aya akasvikwa munguva yehondo dzeKorea neVietnam muma1950s nema1960, kana kunyangwe pakukwirira kwemauto aRonald Reagan ekushongedzerwa kwemauto kuma1980. Mumakore maviri chete ehutungamiriri hwaBarack Obama, apo paive nehasha 150,000 US mauto muIraq neAfghanistan, kana kanomwe kanomwe mazinga evashandi zvinoiswa ipapo, aipedza mari yakakwira.
Ben Freeman weCentre for International Policy akaisa nhamba nyowani dzePentagon bhajeti mukuona Ratidza kuti kungosvika $ 80 bhiriyoni bhiriyoni kuwedzera pagore kwedhipatimendi repakati pakati 2017 ne2019 ichave yakapeta kaviri bhajeti iripo yeDhipatimendi reHurumende; yakakwirira kupfuura zvigadzirwa zvepamba zveinopfuura nyika dze100; uye yakakura kudarika bhajeti rese remauto chero ripi zvaro pasi, kunze kweChina.
MaDemocrat akasaina kune iyo yemusangano bhajeti sechikamu chechibvumirano chekutadza mamwe emhando dzinotyisa dzeTrump manejimendi kutemwa kwakarongwa kupera kwegore Iwo manejimendi, semuenzaniso, akachengetedza bhajeti reDhipatimendi reHurumende kubva mukudzikiswa zvakanyanya uye rakapa mvumo kune akaisirwa Yevana Hutano Inishuwarenzi Chirongwa (CHIP) kweimwe makore gumi. Mukuita uku, zvakadaro, maDemocrat akakandawo mamirioni evechidiki vanobva kune dzimwe nyika pasi pebhazi kudonha kuomerera kwekuti chero bhajeti nyowani ridzivirire iyo Deferred Action yeVana Vanosvika, kana "Varoto," chirongwa. Zvichakadaro, vazhinji veRepublican fiscal conservatives vakafara kusaina paPentagon kuwedzera iyo, pamwe chete nemutero waTrump wakatemerwa vapfumi, mari yekukanganisa kubhora kusvika paziso rinogona kuona - huwandu hwese $ 7.7 tiririyoni kukosha kwavo mumakore gumi anotevera.
Kunyangwe kushandiswa kwemumba kwakafambiswa zvirinani muchibvumirano chenguva pfupi chekongiresi chebhajeti kupfuura zvayaizoita kana chirongwa chakashomeka chaTrump che2018 chikaitwa, ichiri kumashure zvakanyanya kuseri kweizvo Congress iri kudyara muPentagon. Uye kuverenga kwakaitwa neNational Priorities Project kunoratidza kuti Dhipatimendi reDziviriro rakatemerwa kuve rinokunda muhombe muhurongwa hwebhajeti raTrump ra2019. Yaro mugove yeiyo discretionary bhajeti, inosanganisira zvinenge zvese zvinoitwa nehurumende kunze kwehurongwa seMedicare neSocial Security, ichabika kune imwe kamwe isingafungidzirwe 61 masenti padhora, inosimudzira kubva pakatotanga 54 masenti padhora rekupedzisira yekutonga kwaObama.
Zvinokosheswa zvakakosheswa muchirongwa chazvino chaTrump chebhajeti chakakwidziridzwa muchidimbu nedanho revatungamiriri rekugamuchira Pentagon inowedzera Congress yakabvumiranwa mwedzi wapera, uku ichikanda sarudzo dzemutumbi iwoyo pamashandisirwo asiri ehondo nepahwindo. Kunyangwe kongiresi ingangodaro inodzosera pane zvakatarisirwa zvakanyanya nehutungamiriri, huwandu hwacho hwakasimba chaizvo - a yakagurwa kutemwa yemadhora zana nemakumi masere emadhora mumashandisirwo emumba mapato ese akabvumirana. Kuderedzwa kukuru kunosanganisira kuderedzwa kwe120% mumari yekudyidzana uye rubatsiro rwekunze; 41% yakatemwa mari yesimba uye nharaunda; uye 36% yakatemwa mudzimba uye budiriro yenharaunda. Uye ndiko kutanga chete. Mutungamiri weTrump ari kugadzirirawo kutanga kurwisa kwakazara pa zvitambi zvekudya, Medicaid, uye Medicare. Ihondo pane zvese kunze kwemauto eUS.
Kambani Yekugara
Zvirongwa zvechangobva kuitika zvebhajeti zvakaunza mufaro kumweya yeboka rimwe revanoshaya vekuAmerican: vatungamiriri vepamusoro vevashandi vakuru vezvombo vanoita saLokheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, uye General Dynamics. Vanotarisira a Bonanza kubva mudenga repamhepo Pentagon zvinodhura. Usashamisika kana maElds emakambani mashanu aya achizvipa iwo mahara akanaka emubhadharo, chimwe chinhu chekururamisa basa ravo, pane kugona. $ Miriyoni 96 ivo vakadhonza seboka mu2016 (gore richangodarika iro iro zvizere manhamba aripo).
Uye ramba uchifunga kuti, semamwe makambani ese eUS, iwo emauto-maindasitiri behemoth achabatsirwa zvakanyanya kubva mukutonga kwaTrump kwekutema mutero wekambani. Sekureva kwemumwe anoremekedzwa muongorori weindasitiri, chikamu chakanaka cheiyi mhepo yekumhepo chichaenda mabhonasi uye kuwedzera zvikamu yevashandi vemakambani pane kudyara mari munzira nyowani uye dziri nani dzekudzivirira United States. Muchidimbu, munguva yaTrump, Lockheed Martin nemapoka ayo akavimbiswa kuita mari kuuya nekuenda.
Zvinhu zvakasungwa mabhiriyoni mukutsva kwemari muTrump yakatemwa 2019 bhajeti inosanganisira Lockheed Martin yakadzvanywa, inoenderera mberi F-35 ndege, pamadhora 10.6 bhiriyoni; Boeing's F-18 "Super Hornet," yaive munzira yekudzingwa nehutongi hwaObama asi iye zvino yakanyorwa mu $ 2.4 bhiriyoni; Northrop Grumman's B-21 bhomba renyukireya pamadhora mazana mana emadhora 2.3; General Dynamics 'Yekutanga-kirasi ballistic missile yepasi pemadhora madhora 3.9 bhiriyoni; uye $ 12 bhiriyoni yezvakawanda zvezvirongwa zvekuzvidzivirira zvinoita kuti uwane… wakazvifungidzira: Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, uye Boeing, pakati pemamwe makambani. Aya angori mashoma emapurogiramu ezvombo akawanda achange achipa mitsara yepasi pemakambani akadaro mumakore maviri anotevera nekupfuura. Kune mapurogiramu achiri mumatanho avo ekutanga, senge iyo nyowani bhomba uye itsva ballistic missile submarine, avo emabhanari makore ebhajeti achiri kuuya.
Mukutsanangura mafashama emari inoita kuti kambani yakaita sa Lockheed Martin ikwanise kukohwa $ 35 bhiriyoni pagore mumadhora ehurumende, muongorori wezvekudzivirira, Richard Aboulafia weTeal Group akadaro kuti "kudyidzana kuri kunze; kurova kwemhepo kuri mu… Mune ino nharaunda yemamiriro, zvakaoma kuchengetedza muvharo pamitengo. Kana kudiwa kukakwira, mitengo haiwanzo kuburuka. Uye, hongu, hazvigoneke kuuraya zvinhu. "Haufanire kuita sarudzo dzakaomarara kana mafungu aripo achiwedzera."
Pentagon Nguruve Inoenderana neKachengeteka Kwevanhu
Loren Thompson mubatsiri kune vazhinji veavo vanoita kondirakiti. Tangi rake rekufunga, iyo Lexington Institute, inowanawo zvipo kubva kumaindasitiri emaoko. Akabata mweya wenguva iyo kana kurumbidzwa kuzvitutumadza kwevatungamiriri Pentagon yekushandisa bhajeti reDhipatimendi reDziviriro semusiki wemabasa mumatunhu akakosha, kusanganisira nyika yakakosha yeOhio, iyo yakabatsira kukurudzira Donald Trump kukunda muna 2016. Thompson ainyanya kufadzwa nechirongwa chekuwedzera General Kugadzirwa kweDynamics kweM-1 matangi muLima, Ohio, mufekitori ine tambo yekugadzira iyo Mauto aive nayo akaedza kubatisisa makore mashoma apfuura nekuti yaive yatove kunyura mumatangi uye yakanga isinga fungidzirwe zvimwe zvakawanda.
Thompson inotaura kuti matangi matsva anodikanwa kuti aenderane neRussia kugadzirwa kwemotokari dzehondo, chirevo chinokatyamadza chine chishuwo chakasarudzika cheCold War kwachiri. Zvaanotaura ndezvekuti kutsigirwa, hongu, nehutungamiriri hweNational Security Strategic, iyo inovavarira Russia neChina sekutyisidzira kukuru kuUnited States. Usambofa wakafunga kuti izvo zvingangoita matambudziko anokonzerwa nemasimba maviri aya - cyberattacks mune yeRussia kesi uye kuwedzera kwehupfumi mune yeChinese - hazvina chekuita nematangi mangani eUS Army ane.
VaTrump vanoda kugadzira mabasa, mabasa, mabasa avanogona kunongedzera, uye kupomba chivakwa chemauto-maindasitiri chinofanira kunge senzira yekushomeka kusvika kumagumo muWashington yanhasi. Pasi pemamiriro ezvinhu, zvine basa rei kuti chero imwe nzira yekushandisa ingadai gadzira mamwe mabasa uye kwete zvigadzirwa zveAmerica vane zvombo isu hatidi?
Kana kuita kwakapfuura kuchipa chero chiratidzo, hapana imwe yemari nyowani yakatemerwa kudurura muPentagon ichaita kuti chero munhu ave akachengeteka. Sekutaura kwakaita Todd Harrison weCentre for Strategic and International Study, pane njodzi yekuti Pentagon ichangowana "kupera simba kusasimba"Sekushandisa kwayo kwakanyanya kusimbaradza kunosimbiswa nemadhora matsva emadhora ayo anosunungura vanoronga kuti vaite sarudzo dzakaoma zvachose.
Rondedzero yekuparadza zvisina mwero yakatove yakadzikira kwenguva yakareba uye yekutanga fungidziro ndeyekuti marara emahara paPentagon anosvika $ 125 bhiriyoni pamusoro pemakore mashanu anotevera. Pakati pezvimwe zvinhu, veDhipatimendi reDziviriro vatove kushandisa a mumvuri webasa yevanodarika mazana matanhatu ezviuru vevashandi vega vakazvimiririra vane mabasa anodarika zvakanyanya nebasa ririkutoitwa nevashandi vehurumende. Zvichakadaro, kutenga zvisina tsarukano maitiro zvinowanzo guma nenyaya senge dzichangoburwa paPentagon's Defense Logistics Agency kurasikirwa nemabatiro acho akapedza $ 800 mamirioni uye kuti mairi maAmerican maawa aive sei kutadza kuzvidavirira yemadhora 500 mamirioni akanangidzirwa muhondo yezvinodhaka muGreater Middle East uye Africa.
Wedzera kune izvi $ 1.5 tiririyoni yakarongedzwa kuti ishandiswe paF-35s iyo isina wepartisan Project paHurumende Oversight akadaro inogona kunge isingambove yakagadzirira kurwa uye "kusimukira" kweuto renyukireya reUS, kusanganisira chizvarwa chitsva chemabhomba ane zvombo zvenyukireya, zvimbambaira, uye zvombo zvinokanganisa nemutengo wakaderera $ 1.2 tiririyoni pamusoro pemakumi matatu emakore anotevera. Mune mamwe mazwi, chikamu chakakura chemubhadharo mutsva wePentagon chichaita zvakanyanya kukurudzira nguva dzakanaka mumauto-maindasitiri akaomarara asi zvishoma kubatsira mauto kana kudzivirira nyika.
Zvinotonyanya kukosha ndezvekuti, mafashama aya emari nyowani, ayo anogona kupwanya chizvarwa chevanhu vekuAmerica pasi pegomo rechikwereti, zvichaita kuti zvive nyore kuraramisa zvinoita senge risingaperi. Hondo nomwe kuti United States iri kurwira muAfghanistan, Pakistan, Siria, Iraki, Libya, Somalia, neYemen. Saka daidza iyi imwe yemari dzakaipisisa munhoroondo, uchiona senge ichakundikana hondo kusvika kumusoro.
Chingave chinogamuchirwa shanduko muzana ramakumi maviri nezana ramakore America kana danho risingafungi rekukanda zvakare mari isingadaviriki yemari paPentagon yatobhadharwa mari yakawanda yakakonzera hurukuro yakakomba pamusoro pesimba reAmerica remauto. Gakava renyika pamusoro penyaya dzakadai mukumirira sarudzo dza2018 ne2020 dzinogona kuona kana ichiramba iri bhizinesi-seyakajairwa kuPentagon kana kuti hofisi huru muhurumende yemubatanidzwa yakazogadziriswazve mukati ndokuendeswa kune zvakakodzera mamiriro ekudzivirira.
William D. Hartung, a TomDispatch dzose, ndiye director weArms and Security Project kuCentre for International Policy uye munyori we Vaporofita veHondo: Lockheed Martin uye Kugadzira kweMasoja-Industrial Complex.
tevera TomDispatch on Twitter uye tibatane nesu Facebook. Tarisa uone Newest Dispatch Book, Alfred McCoy's Mune Mimvuri yeAmerican Century: Kukura uye Kudzikira kweUS Global Power, pamwe naJohn Dower's The Chisimba American Century: Hondo uye Zvinotyisa Kubva Hondo Yenyika II, John Feffer's dystopian inoverengeka Splinterlands, Nick Turse's Inotevera Nguva Vachauya Kuverenga Vakafa, uye Tom Engelhardt's Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, uye Global Security State muNyika-Inotyisa.
