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(25,592 posts)[font size="8"][center]THE DAMN FUCKING WARS![/center][/font]
All the money wasted killing 3rd world brown people, with multimillion dollar technology, so we can take their oil and the very rich Over Lords profiting from it! All in the name of terror. That is where our resources are going. Killing people and more profits for already very rich people. And we are paying for it, out of our own pockets, with little or no benefit for us, the average citizen! Does anyone else see a problem here?
We have lost control of our government. It doesn't matter who we vote for. At the national level, the proper candidates have been pre-selected in the Primary for us, so we think we still have a say in things.
Diddling with the funding for Social Security or Medicare is just messing with the symptoms, so it looks like something is being done. Screw that! WE need to deal with the root cause. The lack of money is only a symptom of what is wrong with this country. The Wars, the corruption on Wall Street and the big banks are the real problem. We need to figure out how to deal with that. Heaven knows our government is not doing much.
We start at the local level, electing honest people that are in touch with reality and have empathy for those not as well off as they are. After the local level, comes the State government. We need to reverse the current trend and regain control there.
Then comes the Federal level. Congress and the Presidency. It will take 15 to 20 years. If we wait too much longer from now, it will be too late. We just will not have the resources to pull it off. Citizen United is making sure of that.