Bill Murray and Stripes and early look at America's military spending

Carl Olsen





Magazines and print media keep lamenting on thee fact of the fall of the American male worker. Some magazines as the Atlantic monthly even go so far as to decry the end of men in general. Ok think of Bill Murray character and the movie Stripes. Many girlfriends will dump a man who they deem incapable of giving them an easy life. This is how the classic eighties movie starts off and I often wondered how many cases of a man telling a woman who just got fired again to get out. The American male worker has been hit hard by this recession and the policies that have molded a new service related workforce in America. Men will really be unemployed if not for the military, which is like the one bastion of male-dominated work that is not dropping these days(again think Bill Murray in stripes) This shift in workplace has often made me wonder if it is the reason we have increased military spending giving men like that Bill Murray character in Stripes a way to get some work. Men like him are transferred to remote bases and posts around the world away from creating trouble for the new urban global elite in major cities in America. The elitists in charge of this country know it is good to put these men on their side fighting their wars offer oil and money. In the past few decades the top one percent have accumulated ninety percent of the wealth in this country while the Bubba's are shipped to Beirut,Iraq, and Afghanistan. I often think of Bill Murray and Stripes and see alot of parallels with what is wrong with America and how it treats young males without PHD's or owning tech companies.