OUR war is here at home - and there are a lot of casualties

[The Straight Story]

The progressives war that is.

The homeless, the poor, the sick, the worker, and so on. They are all depending on those in power and those with a voice to fight in the war with them and for them.

Many of them are unable to change the system. So many are caught up just in surviving day to day. Depressed, downtrodden, and needing help.

Our country funds our troops. It gives them guns, meals, health care, education etc. It also funds those in prison with food, shelter, books, health care, etc.

Our federal employees, especially those in congress, have health care and usually decent wages, etc.

Everyone else - on your own. And everyone else seems to me to be the bulk of these United States.

The military, prisoners, federal and state employees, all get funded by you and me. We PAY for them to have all the things they need (well, except fed/state employees, but they are still better off than wal-mart employees).

Corporations get welfare and a lot of tax breaks. They pass it on to the few at the top.

It always seems the few are getting a lot from the many, and when the many want something in return we get called lazy or greedy.

So many people have issues, so many need some type of help or other. From mental to physical to financial.

And YET we are seen as the enemy by those who are getting from us when we ask for something in return.

The govt needs a raise or more money for war, they just take it from us. We need money to save lives and help others, we have to battle year in and out to get a slither of cash. Civil rights? Not without a fight and a lot of people taking time from their lives to battle for it.

It is no longer a government for the people and by the people, it seems more like a government for the few by the many.

Our system is broke, and playing nice does not seem to be fixing it.

[driver8]

1. Straight Story, your post is right on the money.

Not only do they take it, but the people that can afford to pay more taxes, don't! They get the fucking tax breaks so they can save more money and get richer while the rest of us pay more than our fair share.

Highly recommended!!

[neoblues]

2. Like Home Depot's CEO Quitting...

and getting 210 million dollars in severance.

Does anyone out there have a sense of just how much stuff a company has to sell to make 210 million dollars in profit in order to cover such an expense?

It's one hell of a lot. A lot of work done by average workers and their lower management; skimping, being screwed here and there, struggling to survive and make it week to week; and their hard-earned profits are pissed away to a wealthy CEO who not only didn't contribute to, but actually appeared to harm the company.

Sick and wrong. It's time there was a fair distribution of wealth in this country (and the world as well).

[The Straight Story]

3. Ineed, that was just insane

Agree with your view - sick and wrong.