My OperaThoughts on the Mid-term election 2010
Sunday, October 31, 2010 6:14:27 PM
WTF??
I must have missed the memo on reducing the national debt.
So let me share a bit of personal frustration I've been harboring over our National direction here.
Our folks in Washington seem to be having kittens, over a trillion dollar Bailout of Criminal Brokerages, Bankers, Schnooks and Nogoodnics with a midnight robbery of our American Bank account at the US Treasury.
The loudest protests I hear, all seem to center on the "Auto Bailouts" which undoubtedly saved jobs and 2/3 of our auto industry then teetering on the brink of insolvency. Call me sentimental but I still prefer American made products, even if many of them are assembled in Mexico.
But back to the elephant I was referring to. I have included a noteworthy link here I have been following for quite awhile with a nauseating fascination that alternates with stupefied incredulity at the things we find important.
Costs of Wars
I feel like we are being skillfully manipulated by the mainstream Media and we don't even realize it until way too late. We are constantly being told by legislators and talking heads, that raising the tax rate on the ultra rich, will somehow devastate our economy and destroy our way of life in America.
Look out! It's socialism and it's coming to get us all!!
Any of you that know me will know my flights of radical and reactionary thought. They may not hold up to the scrutiny of time but they're mine nonetheless.
But this time I believe THE SKY IS FALLING. It may not happen this year or next, but by pouring limitless wealth into ill defined missions of saving the world from terrorism, we will bankrupt our great nation. If not wholly financially the certainly morally, by the folly we show while squandering scarce national resources on wars that can never generate any returns.
No war has never paid for itself.
It seems folly, that we continue to ignore this elephant in our midst continuing to pay no attention to that man behind the curtain who is guiding us down a road to third world status.
As a closing thought let me leave you with a memory of the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which finally ended ten years later in 1989. An involvement that was soon followed in 1990-1991 by the dissolution of the Soviet Union and subsequent fall from superpower status.
As an epilogue to this last major Soviet military involvement in December of 2009 on the 30th anniversary of the start of the war, the Parliament of the Russian Federation issued a statement that ended with,
Differing assessments of the war "mustn't erode the Russian people's respect for the soldiers who honestly fulfilled their duty in implementing tasks to combat international terrorism and religious extremists".
Let's pray this isn't the eulogy we'll recite after our American adventures there have ended.
Russian T-55 Tanks abandoned at Bagram Air Base 1979
I must have missed the memo on reducing the national debt.
So let me share a bit of personal frustration I've been harboring over our National direction here.
Our folks in Washington seem to be having kittens, over a trillion dollar Bailout of Criminal Brokerages, Bankers, Schnooks and Nogoodnics with a midnight robbery of our American Bank account at the US Treasury.
The loudest protests I hear, all seem to center on the "Auto Bailouts" which undoubtedly saved jobs and 2/3 of our auto industry then teetering on the brink of insolvency. Call me sentimental but I still prefer American made products, even if many of them are assembled in Mexico.
But back to the elephant I was referring to. I have included a noteworthy link here I have been following for quite awhile with a nauseating fascination that alternates with stupefied incredulity at the things we find important.
Costs of Wars
I feel like we are being skillfully manipulated by the mainstream Media and we don't even realize it until way too late. We are constantly being told by legislators and talking heads, that raising the tax rate on the ultra rich, will somehow devastate our economy and destroy our way of life in America.
Look out! It's socialism and it's coming to get us all!!
Any of you that know me will know my flights of radical and reactionary thought. They may not hold up to the scrutiny of time but they're mine nonetheless.
But this time I believe THE SKY IS FALLING. It may not happen this year or next, but by pouring limitless wealth into ill defined missions of saving the world from terrorism, we will bankrupt our great nation. If not wholly financially the certainly morally, by the folly we show while squandering scarce national resources on wars that can never generate any returns.
No war has never paid for itself.
It seems folly, that we continue to ignore this elephant in our midst continuing to pay no attention to that man behind the curtain who is guiding us down a road to third world status.
As a closing thought let me leave you with a memory of the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which finally ended ten years later in 1989. An involvement that was soon followed in 1990-1991 by the dissolution of the Soviet Union and subsequent fall from superpower status.
As an epilogue to this last major Soviet military involvement in December of 2009 on the 30th anniversary of the start of the war, the Parliament of the Russian Federation issued a statement that ended with,
Differing assessments of the war "mustn't erode the Russian people's respect for the soldiers who honestly fulfilled their duty in implementing tasks to combat international terrorism and religious extremists".
Let's pray this isn't the eulogy we'll recite after our American adventures there have ended.
Russian T-55 Tanks abandoned at Bagram Air Base 1979
