So, Mr President, you state that the funds for this war already exist... Really?

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120. Totally agree. I look at our society and it is almost exactly as

What we school kids were told would happen should the Communists ever parachute their soldiers over here, and conquer our nation militarily.

No right for the middle class to hold private property unless it is in a very rich neighborhood or else off somewhere that no one wants (note the "eminent domain" seizures of property in Texas so the Ed Rendell Big Energy Corporation can do its fracking unimpeded,) our schools are a mess, the tax code is unfair, and punitive to the small businesses, our post offices are under the threat of closure so the Big Mail Firms can clean up, the banks take almost half of every dollar of profit generated in the country, and the military gets a lot of the rest! Then add in the surveillance, the 'free speech zones" at the places where people need to gather to make their voices heard, and all the rest of it, and what country has this become? And then consider what African Americans are enduring, especially in the Deep South.

Michael Moore opened one of his books with a side by side comparison of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City that was imploded by the bombs, and the buildings in Detroit that had fallen apart due to age. Both speak of loss of life. The contrast is only that those killed by the bombs were killed outright, whereas the collapse of our industries and jobs mean that many in the lower middle class are dying bit by bit each day.