After a 40 year Cold War, the Russians surrendered. In 1989, a nation with three times the territory and half the population threw in the towel, went bankrupt, and has since dropped its defense spending to 17 percent of its 1989 level.

American defense spending is inextricably tied to the national debt. Running deficits and misappropriating/stealing entitlement money provided the additional funds to drive the Russians into the ground.

Without stealing Social Security, Medicare, gas taxes and other entitlement funds, the U.S. Government could not sustain its present level of defense spending. Unless, of course, it gave up other programs for world banking, world order, and general pork-barrel give aways. Heavens, we wouldn’t want that to happen now, would we?

Since the 1941 sneak attack on Pearl Harbor and American industry made the overnight conversion from peaceful to wartime production, defense spending has been on the increase. The defense industry now owns the media, bankrolls elections, lobbies and petitions government, and otherwise “brings good things to life.”

Still the only nation to have used the ultimate weapons of mass destruction, nuclear power was touted as the answer to our energy problems. An unlimited supply of electricity was supposed to be the good side of nuclear development.

Think about this when you pay your energy bills this year, and defense spending goes up again, including a re-launch of the star wars program.