The U.S. Is Fighting A Massive War At Home

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

The U.S. Is Fighting A Massive War At Home
posted with permission from http://sane-ramblings.blogspot.com/2010/11/us-is-fighting-silent-war-at-home.html

Our money by the hundreds of billions of dollars floods into weapons, wars, fighter jets, military contractors and military bases. Wars are being fought in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen, while at home we have a vast tsunami that is undermining the foundation of our nation.

Nearly 15 million people are unemployed. Millions more are underemployed or not counted because they have been out of work too long. They and their families suffer, as do all the people who own the businesses they can no longer afford to shop in. Tens of millions of families are losing their life savings trying to survive.

Fannie and Freddie are holding 4.4 million foreclosed homes, kept off the market in the hope the economy will recover and provide a stronger market for them. Yet every day more homes are being foreclosed, adding to the number of people who have no home to go home to.

Our public schools, once the world's finest, are slipping into mediocrity and are left begging for additional funding just to buy supplies. Class sizes are growing so that it's now common to have 30 or more students per teacher.

Loving pets are being turned over to shelters because the people who loved them can no longer afford to feed and care for them. And those dogs and cats are left to pine for their homes and their human loved ones not understanding why they've been abandoned. And for lack of space many of them will be executed.

States and communities are struggling to balance their budgets because with so many foreclosed homes and troubled homeowners, property tax revenues have been slashed. So has income tax revenue because of all the people out of work and sales tax revenues are down because many people have cut their spending. As a result, severe cuts are being made including teachers, police and firefighters.

If this troubles you, as it does me, please raise your voice for compassion and fiscal sanity. You can make a difference by letting the news media know what you think for politicians listen to them. And you can attend vigils and other public forums, including those held by politicians that are not $1,000 a plate to get them re-elected. Our once great nation has gone badly askew and only we can resurrect it.

[Tippy]

1. K&R.....Thank You for your post.....

[daleanime]

2. Pretty much says it all...

big K&R.:applause:

[RKP5637]

3. This is a pretty F'ed up nation that parades around telling the rest of the

world what to do. Meanwhile this country is falling apart fast and many of our elected politicians have blinders on and many are in on the take, and many Americans remain F'en clueless and ignorant as to what is going on voting in the worst they can find while being so damn gullible.

[Rex]

4. It sends a clear message that politicans don't care about the people

that elect them into office. That money trumps everything else and even if that means huge economic suffering and hardship (to the working class, not the rich of course) then FULL STEAM AHEAD! Miss the iceburg? Hell no! If we don't hit it, we can't make any money off the repairs! HIT IT!

[grilled onions]

5. We Need To Have A H.E.A.R.T

Hear Everyone And Respond Tenfold

[L0oniX]

6. Rich Machiavellian sociopath corporatist's have destroyed the USA.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. Probem is the US is NOT fighting the problems here.

The gov. is ignoring the creating the problems.

So I agree that the US HAS a massive problem here at home, but see no evidence of "fighting " it.

[RKP5637]

8. Neither do I. It is so frustrating, it's like business as usual. I really am

beginning to feel the gov. just feels a large part of this population is expendable, just causalities of a capitalistic downturn. I really feel taken.

What bothers me even more is I don't know/see what the next step is ... there is no magic going to happen with the job situation, I really think they have written off many of the unemployed and destitute people in this country through no fault of their own.

This reminds me of some of the corps. I worked in and a hatchet guy came in and cut jobs left and right to improve the P&L when the reason for the failing profits was the corporate elite, but they stayed on or left with golden parachutes collecting millions and millions of dollars while the rest of us were jobless. That's what our gov. reminds me of now! I haven't seen/heard of any poor politicians walking around.

[donheld]

9. Sadly K & R

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

10. RE: If this troubles you...

Yes, yes it does.

[butterfly77]

11. Kicked&Recommended!!!

:kick: