I just want to express my thinking on a few topics to start off with today.
1. I do not understand why in this country (I am from and live in the United States) our government feels the absolute need to spend billions of dollars to fund the antiquated and backward revolutions of countries we are supposedly not aligned with. We are supposedly allies with countries such as Egypt but we are yelling for changes in their government. Why? We have no right to do this and even if we did does it really have a great history of working in our favor? No! We placed Saddam Hussein into power in Iraq many years ago and we all saw how that worked out.
2. We spend billions of dollars to rebuild countries after we stomp the hell out of them with sanctions and even wars but yet they have never bothered to repay the reparations we have provided. We as a country are floating on billions of dollars in National Debt based entirely on the fact we are unable to repay the world loans we took out many years ago. We continually pay interest payments on these loans to the countries we borrowed from but we never pay on the actual loan amount.
3. We send billions of dollars each year in aid to other countries and yet we cannot even figure out how to house and feed our own countrymen. We have people being made homeless by non-caring banking establishments and soulless corporations. The medical companies and the drug companies ahve made it impossible for us to even afford to get sick let alone stay healthy. We have servicemen and women that found for our country during past wars that cannot even be cared for properly due to corruption in the VA hospitals and in government. I find that personally disgusting!
4. I am tired of the CONSTANT ads being flashed everywhere for the tradgedy in foriegn countries due to climatic changes and disasters. The latest bieng the current problems in Japan. Is it my imagination it was Japan not the third richest country in the world before the tsunami? Why then are we paying out donations to rebuild them because I promise if it was here those countries would not be running those ads to help us. (i.e. Hurricane Katrina). The powers that we in charge during Katrina cleanup actually denied help from other countries such as Cuba because they did not like their politics. That is a load of crap! People are donating what few dollars we are able to scrounge up to send to Japan to help them and that is a wonderful idea, however, who decides where that money is spent and used? The charities hire people and pay them to decide these things. Out of the Billions of dollars sent in by consumers only about 25% will actually get to its intended location, or less! Bureaucratic garbage will see to that. In addition the government will tax the charities in this country for the things they buy and send and also as an entity. Not to mention what the foriegn country will do. If you want to help volunteer time! It cannot be taxed and it cannot be stolen by the charaties either. Spend a few weeks in that country as a vacation helping the actual people that are devastated.
5. Stop the presses! I live in a small town that was affected by the floods when the Mississippi River escaped it banks and sent massive amounts of water into many communities. I worked at a facility that housed the press members covering the events as they supposedly unfolded. A press member asked me the day he arrived if I knew of anyone that was hit by the floods. I said I knew of many people that were dealing with flooding in their homes and businesses. He said he did not want a story on the people that were able to rebuild he wanted a story of someone that lost everything. So when I asked him if they wanted tio just portray the few people that sensationalize the flood instead of the truth that everyone in my area give or take was able to rebuild he decided to take his crew over a hundred miles south where a few people lost there homes. I do not understand! The press does not want the truth because the truth does not sell air time and newspapers. Just once I would love to see a news outlet tell the truthg without the spin on it that is required for the owners to get their message out. News outlets are not where you find the truth, they are where you find the opinions of the people that own or sit on the board of the outlets. I for one believe they should call them as they see them.
6. Stop the press hounds too! We don't care what color Britney Spears panties are this week! Stop hounding these people because you are just feeding into the bullshit that the news outlets are going for. Sensationalism breeds sensationalism. I, for one, do not care what the flavoir of the month starlet and star is doing this week. I will limit my interest to when their next movie comes out. I don't care that Tom Cruise jumped around on some woman's couch, I just wanted to see Mission Impossible: III. I don't care who is marrying whom because I have enough problems with my own relationships. Everyone can go another day without hearing about the latest divorce or reconcilliation. Mainly because the crap slung around by the shopping center rags is just that it is crap! The sensationalism breeds either more sensationalism or a new level of stalking. Which would you want to be a part of?
This is a small example of the types of things that will be found here! If you can read this and enjoy it and maybe learn a nugget or two, even better! If you don't like it, I understand and have a nice day!
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