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Originally Posted by Danzig
so...we're broke, but our taxpayer dollars are going towards high speed internet...unbelievable. wonder what james madison would say about that!
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We are one of the most technologically backwards first world countries in existence as far as equal citizen access. We are not even in the top twenty in healthy infants, healthcare access, science and math and reading education. Our bridges and roads are patched, unsafe holdovers from 1950's and 1960's. We have difficult alternative energy access. One-quarter of our children live in poverty. We have little to none of our historical manufacturing sector left. Our economy? A fifth of it is based upon providing the most expensive healthcare in the world to some of the unhealthiest people in the world, who are suddenly living less long that the previous generation.
Some of us want America to step into the 21st century.
Some of us are sick to death of America dying, and the effing GOP and idiot blue dogs trying to kill off the barely-breathing carcass remaining. Banks and the wealthy are hoarding 1.4 trillion dollars out of the economy.
We are a terribly wealthy nation. Yet only the top few have all the money. And they are not spending it on anything, let alone "job creation".
Wake up and look at this country we love with objective eyes. The end of the Monopoly game is at hand, and only 1 or 2 people have all the money, all the hotels, and all the railroads - and they aren't hiring, thanks.
Our Congress - so proud to just cut spending! - just laid off thousands of people, out of political spite! - and have already spent $250 million in uncollected American income in another partisan hostage crisis to save 12.6 million and coddle Delta Airlines lobbyists.
Why isn't every single American burning up the phone lines and marching on Washington over that? Telling Congress that they are our employees, and we say to get their damn asses back in Washington to at least sign a 30-day holdover so those thousands of American can work until they stop their petty squabbling over giving Delta lobbyists their desires?
We stop spending - for gods sakes, the idiots of both parties in Washington just decided that was what we needed NOW? - and we will be in a Great Depression for another 10-15 years.
Good lord, what the hell happened to Hoover? He started to budget cut, and economic disaster. Hooverville. What happened to FDR? The economy started to turn around, he started to budget cut, and bam, we were screwed for a decade, only saved by a World War.
It is 1937 all over again, and the fat, uneducated, unworldly, backwards haters of this country are calling the President of the United States a communist Muslim Kenyan socialist, one political party is actively and proudly making "his failure" their number one publicly-stated policy priority, and the media pays attention to it. While "real" America is starving and homeless in the streets.
I don't want this country to "go back to 1950" Or 1850, or 1776. I want it to catch back up to the other first world countries.
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding."
~Justice Louis D. Brandeis