you know they stole my youth, my adolescents my retirement

[madokie]

now they want my country too. I'm talking about the cuban missile crises, the Vietnam war, the war on terra', how many more ways can you say Pissed.:mad:
edited: spelling

[valerief]

1. Makes you wonder if the crazy people aren't really crazy at all

for living in an internal world. The external one sucks.

[DainBramaged]

2. Me too, and every day another shoe drops.

and we had 14 years of bullshit economy between Carter and Clinton.

Fucking Republicans.:mad:

[TahitiNut]

3. I sure know where that is, madokie.

In the first two years of my life, my nation took my father and sent him to the Pacific to fight the Japanese, and took my five uncles and sent them to fight the Germans.
As an elementary school student, I "ducked and covered" before I learned to play baseball. I learned to play "hide'n'seek" at the same time I learned about Anne Frank and learned about camping out at the same time I learned about concentration camps.
As a high school student, I learned more about the Strategic Air Command, Minuteman missiles, and the Bay of Pigs than I did about sex (no sex ed allowed), college, or Gandhi.
I began college under the specter of the Cuban Missile Crisis and ended college under the specter of Viet Nam.
During college, I was torn between paying for an education and Mississippi Burning.
As a college graduate, the "priorities" of Viet Nam outweighed the "priorities" of marriage and family life.
During the first twenty years of my career, it was about competing with the Germans and the Japanese in the manufacturing sector while ensuring the 'ownership' of my labors was made wealthy - always awaiting the Armageddon of a mushroom cloud.
During the last twenty years of my career, it was about paying into the Social Security Trust Fund for my own retirement years - the first generation to do so - while watching jobs get 'outsourced' and ownership get wealthier while enjoying the 'good life.'
In absolutely EVERY step along the way, we were called upon to place "what we could do for our country" above "what our country could do for us" ... and now that country is totally consumed in making the wealthy wealthier and throwing away those who placed it first - in defense, in civil liberties, and in an egalitarian society.

To what end? :puke:

[madokie]

4. So sad that we are at this place in history

Today i:cry:
now it's time to fight

[Cleita]

5. We need a true democracy, which means we have to go

back to the drawing board and either amend our present Constitution to reflect this, or write a new one. Republics it seems, historically, descend into dictatorships because the actual governance is taken out of the hands of the people and placed into the hands of a few representatives, which comprise an elitist class of their own.

Eventually, they disconnect with the people, and push through their own agenda and that of their dictators. We seem to have arrived at this point today. It's been building up since WWII. Although we have had some populist legislation come through in the last century like Social Security and Medicare, by far our governments have taken good care of the corporations with little regard to the people. We are pretty expendable, when not needed as a source of cheap labor and military cannon fodder.