Frustration. Somewhere in the US:

[The Straight Story]

In a recent FB battle I have been having it all comes down to this:

What is the greater threat to people - poverty, homelessness, healthcare - or terrorists.

I was told we were spending money on wars to fight them over there so that we would not have to here.

But here is where the battle is. Money spent out the a$$ on x-ray machines, warrant-less wire taps, patriot act, making us all out to be the enemy and all of us being suspects and potential terrorists, wars, defense contracts, etc.

Somewhere, in the US:
- A person cannot get the meds they need
- People are sleeping under a bridge with nothing to eat
- Folks are dying while needing help they could easily get, but cannot afford
- We are knowingly passing laws that help those with the most, while letting the least of us suffer and lose their homes, families, incomes
- Those with the most are getting more, and those with the least are called lazy - one conversation with said person on FB went like this:
"People don't need welfare or UE extensions, they are lazy and just do not want to work"
Same person later: "people don't have jobs because of Obama and the liberals"
OK...which is it, people are lazy or they cannot find work???
- While others (the rich) get breaks people are struggling because they must have car insurance, must have the basic utilities and such to live (or their kids could get taken away because of 'poor living conditions'), etc and so on. Somewhere in the US people are asking for help to just SURVIVE and they are called lazy and need to pull themselves up by their boot straps. But when corporations ask for breaks/help it is all good.
- Someone on Medicare/SSDI/etc is watching their bills go up and up while their income stays the same.

I could go on, but it just seems too frustrating - all because it is so obvious and easy to fix: focus on the real threats and problems, stop the wars, and use the money we all pay in taxes to actually combat the problems facing us instead of the make believe ones that might, maybe, could possibly, etc happen.

Focus on the real issues for once.

[The Big Vetolski]

1. K & R! n/t

[CleanGreenFuture]

2. Anyone who thinks we have "to fight them over there so that we would not have to here"

is a coward anyways. A lilly-livered coward. The home of the brave my ass.

[femmocrat]

3. When I hear that expression, I always ask, "How are they going to get here?"

One time I got the response, "They are already here!"

:crazy:

[elehhhhna]

4. If they DID attack us here, only 40%-ish if the injured/maimed

americans would be "entitled" to insured medicalserivces, therby leaving the US medical-delivery-entiltement lottery's shortcomings exposed.

[The Straight Story]

5. I am gonna steal that and reword it for my reply to this idiot :)

Thanks!

[WillyT]

6. K & R !!!

:kick:

[jwirr]

7. One of our family is with the national guard guarding the border down in Texas.

He is filling the family full of fear about all the drug runners who are coming over the border straight for MN. I finally got it through to them that our drug problems up here do not have anything to do with any of that - if it even exists. We have problems with dealers and gangs who are located a lot closer to home than that. Gossip says the problem is coming out of Chicago. Who knows but it seems to me that we have a lot worse problems than this. And if they were not cutting the money for police maybe it would not be happening.

In the case of marijuana they could just legalize it and end the gang control.