Betrayal of America: Washington Militarists “LAWFULLY” Plunder US Treasury

Few Members of Congress Raise Objections

As the United States’ general economy struggles “against multiple headwinds, its notorious military-industrial complex is enjoying a golden opportunity.… 

“Annual revenue of the West’s military-industrial complex will reach 510 billion dollars in 2025, an increase of 106 billion dollars from that of 2021.” The lion’s share of the profits will likely go to “top U.S. defense contractors.” November 8, 2022 Xinhua news and opinion

“For the United States, war is an extremely profitable business.” The United States, by the largest and most devastating war in human history, “was crowned the world’s sole superpower.” The “gross national product (GNP), measured in constant dollars, grew from 88.6 billion U.S. dollars in 1939 to 135 billion dollars in 1944; and the share of war-related production in GNP jumped from only 2 percent—to an astonishing 40 percent (source: British economic historian Alan Milward). 

Author Xin Ping, a commentator on international affairs, writing regularly for Xinhua News Agency, Global Times, CGTN, China Daily etc. https://english.news.cn/20221108/4cd4d21b2ae64654abef1c7aff5f6295/c.html

Gushers Reported in 

Domestic and International Sources

 

March 16, 2022 White House Press Release 

“Fact Sheet on U.S. Security Assistance for Ukraine”: “President Biden today announced an additional $800 million in security assistance to Ukraine, bringing the total U.S. security assistance committed to Ukraine to $1 billion in just the past week, and a total of $2 billion since the start of the Biden Administration.” https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/03/16/fact-sheet-on-u-s-security-assistance-for-ukraine/

August 8, 2022 USAID Press Release: 

“The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in coordination with the U.S. Department of the Treasury, is providing an additional $4.5 billion in direct budgetary support to the Government of Ukraine….” https://www.usaid.gov/news-information/press-releases/aug-08-2022-united-states-contributes-45-billion-support-government-ukraine

October 14, 2022 U.S. Department of Defense Press Release 

“$725 Million in Additional Security Assistance for Ukraine”: “Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) announces the authorization of a Presidential Drawdown of security assistance valued at up to $725 million…. This authorization is the Biden Administration’s 23rd drawdown of equipment from DoD inventories for Ukraine since August 2021.” https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3189571/725-million-in-additional-security-assistance-for-ukraine/

October 21, 2022 Congressional Research Service (CRS) update (using DOD figures)

U.S. funding slated for Ukraine from 2014 through October 14, 2022 exceeds $20.3 billion. https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12040

October-November International News sources: 40 billion-dollar gusher passes U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 368 to 57. 

 

A Few Members Raise Objection 

on social media platforms

GAETZ

“‘Maintaining Ukraine as an international money laundering Mecca isn’t worth’ the threat of nuclear war’”—

3 Congresses Matthew L. GAETZ II: private practice attorney, former member of the Florida state house of representatives, JD William & Mary Law School (Williamsburg, VA) MOC 2017-present https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/G000578

GOSAR

“‘Ukraine is not our ally’” (and) “‘Russia is not our enemy.’” We need to address our crippling debt, inflation and immigration problems. None of this is Putin’s fault.’”
“‘Calling us names is not a logical position.” “‘I have no principle to follow but the path of peace and non-intervention. My grown children have known nothing except American war and intervention for naught.’” ♦ “‘NO MORE Foreign Aid, especially not to fund a war that we should have NO involvement in’”—

6 Congresses Paul GOSAR dentist, DDS Creighton University (Omaha, Nebraska), MOC 2011-present); ♦ Censured by the U.S. House of Representatives (November 17, 2021) for posting a “‘manipulated video on his social media accounts depicting himself killing U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and attacking President Joseph Biden.’” https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/G000565

GREENE

“US aid to Kiev has ‘killed thousands and thousands of people [and] drastically driven up the cost of living all over the world’” ♦ “Focus on ‘criminal gangs’ ‘making billions trafficking humans and drugs, killing over 300 Americans [per] day;’” focus on the “domestic oil and gas industry” … instead of obsessing on Russian leadership—

Freshman Member of  Congress Marjorie Taylor GREENE (2021-present), business owner, University of Georgia baccalaureate https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/G000596

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Marjorie Taylor-Greene can’t help or hide Milledgeville Roots

She Deserves Pity More Than Scorn

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arjorie Taylor Greene’s birthplace, Milledgeville, Georgia, is notorious for “the Georgia State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum” a/ k/ a “the Georgia State Sanitarium and Milledgeville State Hospital” n/ k/ a/ “Central State Hospital” (CSH), established in the early 1800s during the Creek and Cherokee peoples (Indian) Removal period, and the governorship of Wilson Lumpkin.

Though a native of Milledgeville (Baldwin County), Greene reportedly lived for an extended period in Alpharetta (6th congressional district, Fulton County), Georgia. She holds a baccalaureate degree in business and is heir (sale) to a construction business previously owned by her father.

Greene reportedly announced that she would move to the 14th congressional district (created after the 2010 Census, when Georgia gained a 14th seat in the U.S. House of Representatives) if she decided to run from that district. She later “bought a home in nearby Paulding County” (14th congressional district). By the time she took the oath of office in the U.S. Congress, “she had moved to Rome, Georgia (also in Georgia’s 14th congressional district).

 

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives are required to live in the “state” they represent. Hopping districts, like gerrymandering, is legal.

 

M

arjorie Taylor Greene is unqualified to hold a seat in Congress. She holds NO substantive qualifications for either standing for public office or being elected to the Congress of the United States, or any high public office. Nevertheless she took a seat in the One Hundred Seventeenth Congress, as a representative from Georgia’s 14th congressional district, on January 3, 2021.

Her first acts during the Coronavirus Pandemic

• “On her first day in office, Greene wore a face mask onto the House floor reading ‘Trump Won’”

• On January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C., when her colleagues were “sheltering in place during the riot,” Representative Greene “refused to wear a face mask.”
  

 

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eighborhood of U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene

MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia

• Residents living in poverty (2017):

43.9 percent
(46.3 percent for White Non-Hispanic residents, 41.9 percent for Black residents, 42.3 percent for Hispanic or Latino residents, 100.0 percent for Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander residents, 64.9 percent for other race residents, 49.7 percent for two or more races residents) Estimated per capita income (2017): $14,877

• Education level of people age 25 and older

Undergraduate college degree or higher: 18.5 percent
Graduate or professional degree: 8.7 percent
Unemployed: 7.9 percent

• Most common industries Health care (14.7 percent)

Educational services (13.2 percent)
Accommodation & food services (10.7 percent)
Public administration (7.3 percent)
Finance & insurance (3.9 percent)
Machinery (3.4 percent)
Construction (3.4 percent)

• Sex offenders Registered (latest update January 16, 2021)

250
Ratio of all residents to sex offenders in Milledgeville: 78 to 1.

ALPHARETTA, Georgia

• Residents living in poverty (2017):

7.0 percent
(4.8 percent for White Non-Hispanic residents, 13.4 percent for Black residents, 17.5 percent for Hispanic or Latino residents, 14.2 percent for American Indian residents, 14.5 percent for other race residents, 3.8 percent for two or more races residents)
Estimated per capita income (2017): $57,373

• Education level of people age 25 and older

Undergraduate college degree or higher: 69.7 percent
Graduate or professional degree: 25.7 percent
Unemployed: 3.2 percent

• Most common industries

Professional, scientific, technical services (14.5 percent)
Finance & insurance (8.8 percent)
Accommodation & food services (6.1 percent)
Educational services (5.9 percent)
Broadcasting & telecommunications (5.8 percent)
Health care (5.5 percent)
Construction (4.4 percent)

• Sex offenders Registered (latest update January 16, 2021)

25
Ratio of all residents to sex offenders in Alpharetta: 2,588 to 1
(…much lower than the state average)
 

ROME, Georgia

• Residents living in poverty (2017)

24.5 percent
(18.0 percent for White Non-Hispanic residents, 34.9 percent for Black residents, 29.9 percent for Hispanic or Latino residents, 39.1 percent for other race residents, 23.7 percent for two or more races residents)
Estimated per capita income (2017): $24,150

• Education level of people age 25 and older

Undergraduate college degree or higher: 69.7 percent
Graduate or professional degree: 25.7 percent
Unemployed: 3.2 percent

• Most common industries

Health care (11.4 percent)
Educational services (11.3 percent)
Textile mills & textile products (8.6 percent)
Accommodation & food services (6.9 percent)
Food (5.8 percent)
Construction (5.6 percent)
Administrative & support & waste management services (3.9 percent)

• Sex offenders Registered (latest update January 16, 2021)

298
Ratio of all residents to sex offenders in Rome: 124 to 1.

 

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omments, Statements attributed to Marjorie Taylor Greene  

On guns and militia

“…American militia groups …
“… ‘the very definition of our Second Amendment because when our government gets to a place where it’s a tyrannical government, we’re guaranteed the right to bear arms and make a state militia so that they do not run us over’” “‘The government will never tell me how many guns I can own, and how many bullets I am allowed to fire if someone were to attack me or my kids’”

On QAnon (2017 video)

“… worth listening to …. There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take this global cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles out, and I think we have the president to do it.’”

Wikipedia article definition of “QAnon”: “a disproven and discredited far-right conspiracy theory alleging that a cabal of Satan-worshipping cannibalistic pedophiles is running a global child sex-trafficking ring and plotting against U.S. president Donald Trump, who is fighting the cabal. U.S. prosecutors have called it ‘a group commonly referred to as a cult.’” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon

Donald John Trump’s political party affiliations over time:
1987 registered Republican in Manhattan
1999 Reform Party
2001 Democratic Party
2009 Republican Party

Donald Trump’s candidacies for U.S. President: 3
2000
2016
2020
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_career_of_Donald_Trump

Greene continued
On Race, Creed, Ideology

“Save America, Stop Socialism.”

Meme posted to her Facebook page, holding an AR-15 style rifle next to a collage of pictures of female members of the U.S. Congress, declaring “… time for Republicans to ‘go on the offense against these socialists who want to rip our country apart’”; captioned ‘Squad’s worst nightmare’”

“The most mistreated group of people in the United States today are [sic] white males.”

“‘anyone that is a Muslim that believes in Sharia law does not belong in [the US] government.’”

Characterizes outcome of 2018 midterm congressional elections
“…part of ‘an Islamic invasion of our government.’”

In a video holding “an AR-15 style rifle and warned
“antifa terrorists” to
…“… stay the hell out of Northwest Georgia.”

Wikipedia article definition of “Antifa”: “a left-wing anti-fascist and anti-racist political movement in the United States. It is highly decentralized and comprises an array of autonomous groups that aim to achieve their objectives through the use of both nonviolent and violent direct action rather than through policy reform.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)

Greene continued

“Democrats must be held accountable for the political violence inspired by their rhetoric.”

U.S. president-elect Joe “Biden is ‘willing to abuse the power of the office of the presidency and be easily bought off by foreign governments, foreign Chinese energy companies, [and] Ukrainian energy companies.’”

Her post-election charges against her party, media, and others

“‘The GOP establishment, the media, & the radical left, spent months & millions of dollars attacking [her]’”

Her goal in Congress: “to continue "pulling the [Republican Party] to the right’

Ballotpedia posts of Greene statements (“Key messages”)

“I'm a conservative wife, mother of three, and businesswoman in the construction industry who stands with President Trump and against the left-wing socialists who want to wreck our country.”

“I’m running to stop gun control, open borders, the Green New Deal, and socialism.”

Greene’s campaign said: “Radical socialists want Americans on the same government-run healthcare plan with welfare recipients and illegal immigrants. Marjorie Greene is fighting against these radical socialists and will take the fight to Congress.” Ballotpedia accessed on various “Marjorie Taylor Greene” websites Greene’s sites April 6, and 26, 2020 https://ballotpedia.org/Marjorie_Taylor_Greene

Sources

Ballotpedia
https://ballotpedia.org/Marjorie_Taylor_Greene

Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Taylor_Greene
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_State_Hospital_(Milledgeville,_Georgia) [1842 - ]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Lumpkin

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/G000596


City data
http://www.city-data.com/city/Rome-Georgia.html
http://www.city-data.com/city/Alpharetta-Georgia.html
http://www.city-data.com/city/Milledgeville-Georgia.html

 

 

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