Good Wednesday morning, Miriam ET AL,
Fifty four cents of every dollar is just the amount of our tax dollars
being directly handed over to the military. But that does not begin
to address the cost of Eternal War. Just the reduction in repair of
our infrastructure costs countless dollars in laid off workers, damage
to vehicles on broken roads, time lost by people attempting to travel
to and from jobs, contaminated drinking water from old lead pipes,
corrosive fallout from industrial pollution that erodes everything it
falls on, contaminated waterways that are killing the sea life around
them, and on and on. Fifty four cents of each dollar ensures that
teachers are continuing to be underpaid, as are public medical workers
and special services to the elderly, the blind, the babies born into
poverty. There will be the assurance that our inner cities will
continue to crumble and that crime will continue. There will be the
need to increase police forces to "keep the peace" and to enforce the
Law of the Oligarchy. Think of all that this Eternal War is costing
us working class Americans while we sit in long smelly lines of
traffic crammed together on roads built to handle traffic of 1950.
Think, as you pull into your crumbling side street and weave among
parked cars crowded along roads too narrow, think of those folk more
fortunate than you, the ones who are benefiting from your labor,
living high on the hill behind gates, above the smog and the noise and
are unconcerned about congestion. And as you look around at the
steady decline of your surroundings, think of how that fifty four
cents of every dollar is keeping you safe from Terror, and defending
your American Way of Life.
Could it just be that we, the People who put up the fifty four cents
on every dollar, are being suckered?
And now our new Emperor has informed us that we must "trust him" to
send our sons, daughters, brothers and sisters off to protect us from
Terror, with no idea of how long they must put their lives on the line
to protect our decaying nation.
I want to wake up and find that this has all been a terrible
nightmare, and that Donald Trump is nothing more that a forgotten
bathrobe hung on the closet door.
Carl Jarvis
On 8/23/17, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Phyllis Bennis says that 54 cents out of every federal dollar is spent on
the military and war. The Lighthouse in NYC, used to have posters all over
the city, showing a beautiful blind girl, looking needy and pitiful, with a
plea for funds to help her and people like her. But as time passed, the
services disappeared and the Lighthouse get building new and fancier
buildings.
Miriam
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And a very warm August 22 to you Bonnie. We were just in Port Angeles,
enjoying a bit of a breeze and around 83 degrees. We worked with a
delightful woman whose vision is not holding up too well, and whose husband
has Parkinson, as does our son-in-law Don. So when I read Abby's remarks I
went to where my emotions churn. I do understand that so many health
conditions are very complex, and we are just scratching at the edges. But
the money that is raised is not always wisely spent. Our state
organization, WCB, raised large amounts of dollars through a group that
solicited old automobiles and gave WCB about 10% of the gross profits for
the use of our name. Even once the 10% was in our account, we did not
always use it wisely.
Charities waste great gooey gobs of dollars. Even so, the Pentagon wastes
more...lots, lots more. So I heard the frustration in Abby's remarks.
Frustration that translates in my own mind as one of anger over the lies
that are often lain upon us by promoters of charities, and of Presidents who
lie that their wars will make us safer and keep us free. But in the
understaffed clinics and medical centers there are men, women and children
dying for lack of care. Even as those in your profession and in ours.
Currently we are so over invested in military bases and weapons of murder
that the Emperor Trump could not back out without causing a major crash,
even if he wanted to...which he does not. So yes, I watch my son-in-law
slowly dying, and my sweet daughter battling Rheumatoid Arthritis, and I
must tell you, I have no faith in this boastful, vain, self admiring
Emperor. And I thought that George Bush II was embarrassing!
We should all be frothing mad at how uncaring the government is toward the
working men and women...and even madder at the transparent lies they shower
upon us, believing that we are so easily schmoozed.
Carl Jarvis
On 8/22/17, Bonnie L. Sherrell <blslarner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Why isn't there a cure for a lot of things? Alzheimers? Other
dementias?
MD
is a hereditary condition. It's main victims are boys, and they
rarely live past seventeen. There are a few variants that attack
females, and the girls will often live longer than their male
counterparts. But look at how long it has taken to begin to find
counters to many cancers, which are far more common and are not as
inevitable as MD is, Abby. Perhaps that we are beginning to conquer
at least some cancers we will be able to stop the muscular
degeneration of MD as well.
Bonnie L. Sherrell
Teacher at Large
"Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the
very wise cannot see all ends." LOTR
"Don't go where I can't follow."
We gave the Goblin King control of our nation!