Capitalism and mortality: Death rate soars for middle-aged US workers

[monicaangela]

23. Excellent Post!!! I have to say hear, hear

and hope that readers on this site will take a look at this. I am painfully aware of most of the material you have posted here, and agree with your assessment. I have read most of the books, and they do help a person to understand a bit better the history of this nation. I am not a genius, nor do I consider myself better educated than the average person, but....I know this, you know this, and so many others could easily know this information if they really wanted to. Dumbed down yes, but not so dumb as to realize the fact that they have had privilege since the day this country was invaded by Europeans.

It is one thing to say that everybody else is less intelligent because of the system, but somehow you and I escaped the brainwashing and are able to therefore see what is happening and that the majority of others cannot. I would not if I were you even entertain that idea. Yes, education in this country has been going downhill for many years now, and the Reagan era started a lot of government deception, but again, the majority of Americans are not too dumb to have been able to notice what was happening. In this nation, a certain portion of the population has been less attentive because they somehow believed they were immune, protected, not one of them, those people who really have no reason to live, but one of the chosen ones.

The bubble has burst, truth is out, and some have decided to over medicate to soften the blow, drink themselves into a drunken stupor so as to not have to deal with the fact that they too are as those they thought were nothing, and then there are those who can't take the time to do either of those two, and just decide to end it all with the overlords most prize weapon, the gun.

Frightening, well, that is a matter of opinion. I believe it is all enlightening, and helps us to understand the myriad of things that are happening in the world today....people jumping borders for safety, people leaving the only home they have ever known because of war and destruction, and why? Because those that have too much have no idea what they are doing, they are as the Elephant, and the majority of the rest of us human beings or as the Ant, and you know what happens to the Ant when the Elephants have a fight over their nest.

For me, the deciding factor in all of this is MONEY and POWER...the money comes from the little guy, the power is given by the little guy so that to me means it is up to the little guy to put a stop to all of this. As General Smedley Butler says, "War is a racket" and we all know why these wars are being fought, not for you and me, or the little guy, but to protect the wealth of those we have allowed to without shame through robbing, raping and pillaging manage to hoard the wealth and with it usurp the power over the rest of us.

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

Smedley Butler

The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.

Smedley Butler

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in.

Smedley Butler

And last, but not least:

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

Smedley Butler

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