As we prepare for.....
the new Republican dominated congress to begin its raid on anything Obaman or inspired by Democrats, the non-aggressive, non-rich among us begin changing the locks and pushing heavy furniture against our front doors.
Everything that lends itself to helping the lesser among us, the poor, the elderly, the physically or mentally impaired, the working poor, the homeless, victims of the mortgage crisis resulting from the land 'bubble' and on and on ad nauseum, will be attacked as heading the United States toward Socialism.
What will, however, not be on their agenda is curbing exportation of arms, which the U.S. is the leader in the world, down sizing the annual defense budget which was just shy of $ 700 billion dollars for 2010, reducing the enormous expenditure of the infamous and useless 'war on drugs'. None of the expensive confrontations we have around the world will be brought into question. Nor will the non-regulated Wall Street, self serving excesses of Banks, executive bonus's or the arrogance of mega corporations. Apparently they are what makes America great and not the backs of the people who built them.
Money for education, for infrastructure in our country, welfare for our own society, for the health and well being of our own citizens will be challenged as handouts to the undeserving and, therefore, considered candidates for elimination.
Every dollar spent sealing us off, shielding us from the rest of the world, enforcing our ideas of who should be considered enemies, which countries we should teach 'democracy', who should have nuclear capabilities and who should not, is a dollar taken away from municipal services, state's abilities to meet their financial obligations, highway building, levee construction, alternative energy experiments and the well being of Americans in general.
Defense of one's home land is important, no one is denying it. But, it is a stretch to say the United States is defending itself by losing billions of dollars and thousands of American lives fighting shadows in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. It would be wiser to protect our country from foreign attack than to be attacking foreigners in the anticipation of them attacking us.
OK, I'm too tired to go on. But, if I could I would.
Everything that lends itself to helping the lesser among us, the poor, the elderly, the physically or mentally impaired, the working poor, the homeless, victims of the mortgage crisis resulting from the land 'bubble' and on and on ad nauseum, will be attacked as heading the United States toward Socialism.
What will, however, not be on their agenda is curbing exportation of arms, which the U.S. is the leader in the world, down sizing the annual defense budget which was just shy of $ 700 billion dollars for 2010, reducing the enormous expenditure of the infamous and useless 'war on drugs'. None of the expensive confrontations we have around the world will be brought into question. Nor will the non-regulated Wall Street, self serving excesses of Banks, executive bonus's or the arrogance of mega corporations. Apparently they are what makes America great and not the backs of the people who built them.
Money for education, for infrastructure in our country, welfare for our own society, for the health and well being of our own citizens will be challenged as handouts to the undeserving and, therefore, considered candidates for elimination.
Every dollar spent sealing us off, shielding us from the rest of the world, enforcing our ideas of who should be considered enemies, which countries we should teach 'democracy', who should have nuclear capabilities and who should not, is a dollar taken away from municipal services, state's abilities to meet their financial obligations, highway building, levee construction, alternative energy experiments and the well being of Americans in general.
Defense of one's home land is important, no one is denying it. But, it is a stretch to say the United States is defending itself by losing billions of dollars and thousands of American lives fighting shadows in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. It would be wiser to protect our country from foreign attack than to be attacking foreigners in the anticipation of them attacking us.
OK, I'm too tired to go on. But, if I could I would.
posted by bbuckman | 11:23 AM
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