The Defense Department is trying to quickly find vendors who are able to ship pre-made shelters to protect troops in the Middle East as the United States’ war with Iran continues.
The department is looking for information from private contractors who can provide “prefabricated, transportable, hardened shelter systems designed to protect personnel from blast and fragmentation threats,” according to a new federal contract notice posted Monday.
Better to err on the side of people dying in the streets than to accidentally let too many workers be able to have enough free time to think about improving society and organizing or protesting.
If you give them more free tine they’ll spend more money.
This is America people don’t protest, organize or improve society they think that’s other people’s jobs.
Under capitalism, you need a suffering underclass to keep the working class scared enough to accept their bad conditions and low wages. Generally about 2-3% of the population is sufficient.
Americans have had a long tradition of organizing and resisting. The 40-hour workweek was bought with worker’s blood. The apathy of the American body politic is a relatively new attribute, historically. My opinion is that it metastasized in 1971.
~I was taught all of this in American public high school and public university. Howard Zinn was required reading.~
I don’t care what happened in the 1900’s or in 1971.
I care what’s happening now.
We learn about the past to understand the present.
We didn’t learn much if we haven’t protested or organized in fifty-five years.
The irony of you making that claim while one of the largest protests in history happened today…
The highest protestor count estimation was 7 million people across the nation or slightly higher then 2% of the population or about seventy million less people then Trump got votes.
That’s kind of sad for ‘one of the largest protests in history.’.
You said there hadn’t been any protests in 50 years, Debbie Downer.
This one happened.
A little internet sleuthing will show lots more in your 5 decades of supposedly nothing.