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In reply to the discussion: I've figured out the hostility to the President, and its not "Obama Derangement Syndrome"... [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)most of this country's resources will be spent, see the SS fund eg, and the tax breaks for the Wealthy. Do you know how much the past decade has cost this country, and have you been paying ANY attention to the so-called Deficit Commission's 'recommendations' regarding Social Programs.
Even if someone didn't care about the grotesque Human Rights violations against millions of people they certainly should understand what happens when a country becomes nothing more than a war economy. History is filled examples unless one wishes to remain willfully blind.
Once a government has the population in the palm of its hand there won't be any need to throw them any more crumbs, and we are already seeing that work with the suggestions of cuts to Social Programs.
Nothing good ever comes from killing people all over the world. Other Empires have done it, we are not the first, except for the top 1% who profit from it all.
And the negative results of our warmongering are coming home to roost. We are finding it more and more difficult to get others to tag along and before long we will be on our own still proclaiming ourselves to be Numero Uno while the rest of the world moves on into the future, maybe even gathering their forces to do what we have failed to do, begin the process of holding War Criminals accountable.
It took 50 years in South America to begin the process of dealing with their war criminals. There are way too many victims who will not forget even if Americans in their isolation think it has all been forgotten. It has not.