Nationalize SOME Industries

There can be little debate that we have specific focal problems that hold us back as a society. Income inequality, access and cost of medical care including medications and warfare being chief among them.

If Americans truly want peace, security and prosperity, the honest truth is that specific industries should be nationalized. Take away the profit motive for warmongers and apathetic capitalists who allow or even cause death and destruction of lives for their own greed.

Military weapons and aircraft. One industry that should be nationalized is military weapons manufacturing. We all know that MIC contractors are the biggest promoters of warfare. They spend huge sums of money paid by taxpayers to promote the next conflict and the next and the next. If the military weapons and aircraft industries were nationalized, completely operated by government agencies and worked by government employees, we would not be paying for advertising. We would not be paying for corporate profits. With that manufacturing accounting being subject to FOIA requests, the cost of military supplies would plummet. CONgressional representatives would be far more likely to question and criticize cost and time of development of new weapons systems. In addition, the media just might start asking critical questions about our conflicts.

The oil industry. We all know that many, if not most of our military conflicts for decades have been for the benefit of the oil industry. Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, the current regime change attempt against…