Weak U.S. Mayors Challenge Federal Mafia

Mayors Urge Washington End Wars for Profit and, Instead, Invest in US Infrastructure

Those Silly Polite Good Natured Mayors Don’t Get It!   The Washington ZOG Is NOT on our Side!

by Johnny Punish

For months, the country’s mayors have bemoaned reduced federal spending and planned cuts for programs that they hold dear: Community Development Block Grants, homeland security programs, and transportation spending, among others. Now, they’ve heightened the rhetoric. Today in a press conference, they called for the federal government to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and to invest the money spent on those wars at home.

Over the years, many city councils nationwide have passed similar resolutions, which are entirely symbolic. Those calls were more indicative of a community’s opposition to the wisdom of the war itself as opposed to its cost. Now, mayors are saying that the wars should be ended, largely for financial reasons.

On Monday, the more than 150 mayors at the U.S. Conference of Mayors annual meeting in Baltimore will vote on a resolution urging Washington to end the wars and instead invest that money in infrastructure, job creation, aid to cities and states, and sustainable energy programs. Though the vote hasn’t happened yet, it’s clear that many mayors agree with it.

“We need to take care of safety here at home,” said Elizabeth Kautz, mayor of Burnsville, Minn. and president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. “That’s our first priority as mayors.”

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, an advocate for investments in transportation and infrastructure, said that the federal government should be spending its money on bridges in the U.S. — not Afghanistan.

It’s difficult to estimate the precise cost of the wars, though it’s likely around $126 billion a year (according to the resolution [p. 169/223] outlined by the U.S. Conference of Mayors). Meanwhile, federal officials have proposed cuts that are just a fraction of that amount to domestic programs that mayors view as key. For example, President Obama’s proposed 2012 budget proposes cutting $300 million from the Community Development Block Grant program, which funds housing and job training for low and middle-income residents.

More recently, more than 30 cities lost out on anti-terrorism funding from the federal government as a result of losses to grant programs. And as the House and Senate move forward with their transportation bills, it’s increasingly clear that they won’t make the level of investments called for by most transportation experts.

This marks the first time the conference has called for the end of a military engagement since the Vietnam War which makes it a very unique situation.

It’s no secret that the number one industry in the USA is military and defense, without it, Washington DC has a real hard time functioning.  Typically state leaders have gone along with the program because it was in their best interests.  Of course, human rights be dammed, the issue has always been about the local benefit and to hell with the consequences abroad.   But no matter they’re less than stellar motivation, at least self-interest is finally working its way to some local politicians, albeit the weakened ones were back on the beaten and over-encumbered main street on the verge of foreclosure.

The real fact of the matter is that while the Mayors finally get the picture and see the homeland as the place where they actually live, the beltway globalists posing as Americans, are simply paying lip service and kissing these fool’s out the door while they take the “C-Notes” from their rulers at the lobby brothel.

Given that the U.S. Congress recently gave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu another blank check for his imperial agenda and did so with a standing ovation that far exceeded that for a President of the United States, well, you figure it out and tell me who’s running the show!   The Mayors?  LOL!   Nice try!  Have you heard of the ZOG?   Yeah, the Zionist Occupied Government!   No?  Well, say hello to your masters!

Memo to U.S. Mayors: Good luck with fighting the corrupted system in the Globalist hamlet of DC.   But don’t fret, we’ll reserve a spot for you at the front line of the coming people’s revolution.  Just make sure you wear your red, white, and blue because those darn Feds are wearing black with new world order logos atop their zionist bankster flags and we want to make sure Team America can tell who’s who as we drag the traitors from the halls of shame into the community brig where we can try them as Benedict Arnolds!

Johnny Punish

Johnny Punish founded VT in 2004.  After 20 years at the helm, he “retired” from the daily operations in late 2023 passing the ball over to the new owner of VT, Chief Justin Time.   He now writes for VT as “Writer Emeritus”.  He is also a global citizen eco-activist, visionary, musician, artist, entertainer, businessman, investor, life coach, podcast host, and syndicated columnist.  

Punish is an ethnically cleansed Palestinian-American whose maternal family was evicted from their home in Haifa, Palestine in 1948 by Irgun; a Euro-Zionist Settler Terrorist Group.  The family became part of the over 1,000,000 Palestinians who are Al-Nakba refugees (The Catastrophe).  The family fled to Beirut Lebanon for 13 years eventually emigrating to the USA in 1961 via a Brasilian passport obtained by his Palestinian Brasilian-born grandmother (In the early 1900s, the family was sent to Sao Paolo Brasil as guest workers in the mining industry.  Punish’s father is Italian-American from New York City.  Punish’s paternal great-grandparents emigrated to the USA from Naples Italy and Marineo in Sicily in the 1890s.  Punish was born in the Bronx, New York in 1963.

Punish was educated at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (1980-81) and California State University Fullerton (1981-1984) with studies in accounting and business. Before the “internets” had been invented, he owned and ran (5) national newspapers in the United States of America from 1987-1998.  From 2004 to 2023, he owned and managed VT Foreign Policy retiring at the end of 2023.

Punish is also a recording artist.  He has over 100 original songs written. He records and produces music. A member of ASCAP, Punish has several songs placed in feature films. His music is promoted worldwide and played on all digital networks and net radio.

He is also the founder and owner of  Global Thinkers, a freedom media that helps free thinkers create real wealth.

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