So many comments, so little time.

I wonder why we have not, as a nation, risen up and demaned free healthcare.  Why we are complacent in our own destruction.  In our own oppression.  Does this make sense to anyone? 

If you have not seen this video, you should.  Be prepared to sit for a while by grabbing a cold drink, something to munch (if needed) and a fistful of tissues.  You’re gonna need it.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6646340600856118396&q=sicko&ei=hhpvSPOZGoXw4QK09e2mDw&hl=en

THOSE PEOPLE HATE US!  The don’t want us in their piss ant countries.  They don’t want our people there, military or not.  They’d rather kill most of us than have any kind of “Americanism” besmirch their ‘pure’ societies, and yet we send billions of our hard earned cash to aid them whenever they get a sniffle. 

Now before you get all riled up and start bashing me, let me say that I’m not talking about ALL other countries.  i’m talking about the terrorists.  I’m talking about the bombers.  I’m talking about the religious fanatics who think they have to convert the world…or kill them, in their eyes, either would do fine.  I’m talking about the crazy, maniacal, debolical, PSYCHO people that raise their children to believe that killing yourself gets you into heaven (or whatever they call it) as long as you take a few Americans with you.  THESE are the countries I am talking about.

And we’re sending them money.  And food.  And our soldiers to train their sons.  Funny, but the last time I looked there was a homeless person on just about every street corner in urban America.   Food banks can’t keep up with the demand.  AND our own military is having a hard time finding soldiers.

Due to the crazy inflated prices of everything from gas to groceries, two-wage earner families are now not able to put food on the table for thier children, instead being forced to swallow their pride and go to local food banks.  Could we maybe drop a few million pounds of emergency food on the cities of our OWN country??!!  At least if we handed out food to our own hungry, the men passing out the meager packages wouldn’t have to be handing it out in flak vests and aiming AK-47′s at the crowd, waiting for the first of their squad to be picked off by a rebel sniper.

Here’s another crazy, far out thought.  How about we give those billions and trillions of dollars back to the people that EARNED IT.  Like me.  And everyone else I know who’s worked every damn day of their adult life just to give 25 percent of their paycheck to a government that sits on capital hill in their fancy suits, sending their kids to private schools, and doling out our money to other nations like they were playing a child’s game of monopoly (you know, my brother and I used to love being “the bank”…..cuz we could snag an extra couple bills here and there). 

“So Congressman John Doe…. would you like to be the car this year or the hat?  I mean, you really ought to give someone else the opportunity to be the banker.”

“Mmmm, no.  I like being the bank.  And….it’s my game.”

Duh.

And where, you might ask, are all the billions of dollars being spent?  Funny you should ask.  THEY DON’T KNOW!  Billions of dollars in contracts sent overseas, and yet there is nothing to show for it.  No real records kept of what the money was used for.  In fact, in one recent article, several millions of dollars were signed for (signed for, literally, by one man) as “salary for the Army”.  Um, sure, yeah, let me just walk down the streets of Iraq with this billion dollar suitcase and give money to the soldiers.  I’m sure he got about…..five feet.

So, let me just summarize this for those of you who got caught up in the “unjustness” of it all, those of you who are, at this very moment, writing scathing comments to tell me about the poor innocent victims, tragic pawns in the worlds politics, that are desperate and grateful for our help, and have no other way to lift themselves out of the harshness that is their reality.  Here goes:

WHO CARES.  When I don’t have to live paycheck to paycheck wondering how I’m going to feed my own children because every company is downsizing it’s employees and yet passing on higher prices to it’s consumers, and don’t have to balance my checkbook to the penny every time I need to fill up my car to go to that same barely-helping-me-survive job, then maybe I’ll give a rat’s ass about some family overseas who is hiding three terrorists in their basement, two on the roof aiming guns at our soldiers, and yet crying about how we’re not sending them enough food.  As my brother used to say, throw yourselves on the floor and deal with it.  Boo flippin hoo.

Government, keep our money where it belongs.  Right here in the good ol’ U. S. of A. and learn to subscribe to the ‘Parking Lot Theory’.  (If you have to ask, you’ve never talked to a soldier  

We’d all be alot better off.

I know I tend to be opinionated on some subjects, and this is one.  I have never used drugs in my life.  And no, I have not had a perfect, unblemished life.  I, too, like everyone else, I’m sure, has had hard, hard times I’ve had to deal with.  Yet never in my 35 years have I turned to drugs or alcohol to treat the sometime harsh reality of living.  Personally, I do not feel that I should pay for insurance that covers extended drug rehabilitation or that the government should use my tax money to fund such increasing health coverage .  I believe it is a weakness in the person who uses drugs, and our society’s “it’s all about me” attitude that contributes to our drug problems.  There is a prevailing attitude in our country that the world owes us a perfect life, and well, if we don’t get it, let’s just zone out and get stoned.  Puleeze. 

Prevention, I believe, is much more effective.  Continue the marketing campaign against drugs, make it so “uncool” that even the ‘losers’ won’t want to be caught doing it.  Take away the peer pressure and the drugs might go away.  How to do that?  Now there’s the rub…. 

On the other side of the coin, perhaps if we legalize the stuff, those people who can’t stop using it can just keep using until they wipe themselves right off of our planet.  I say let them drug themselves out all they want, just don’t make me pay for it.  Some of us actually have a brain in our heads and enjoy both the passive and purposeful firing of neurons that we like to call “thinking”.   And as far as prevention, any Mother knows that the more you make a thing “taboo”, the more the kid wants to do it.  Legalize drugs, let them do it if they want to, round them up and put them on an island full of the stuff. 

Natural selection (sort of).  Thinning out the herd.  Populace control.  Whatever you want to call it.  Well, it’s a thought.

Have you ever wondered where our benevolent government spends all your tax dollars?  Let me give you a few fun and, oh so educational, examples from the news lately:

Male wasps make love to orchids

Inbred male mice can’t get lucky

 These articles are just so stupid, they practically speak for themselves.  I know I was speechless.