Click here to access article by Tom Engelhardt from TomDispatch via Common Dreams. (I'm posting the article from this website because of its superior presentation.)
I think that this article reveals a mostly unrecognized consequence of the imperial ambitions of the US Empire directors. In their insane agenda to rule over all the earth, they are hollowing out their base in the home country. They are cutting every domestic expense that includes not only welfare, Social Security, and education, but roads, bridges, rail--the entire infrastructure of the US to build their ever more expensive and deadly weapons which they are using to destroy one country after another and threaten others.