Pointless, Intense Sorrow. Can you Imagine what Miracles we could have Accomplished against

[Mike03]

disease, such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and then poverty, with the THREE to FIVE TRILLION dollars that the Iraq war will cost us?

How many injured human beings we could have helped?

Or how many homeless vets we could have built mansions for?

The teachers we could have either hired or paid more fair salaries to?

The programs we could have added to our schools.

How many mentally injured people we could have given medications to?

How many foreclosed families we could have kept in their homes?

How many police and fire departments we could have subsidized to hire more people?

This simply breaks my heart. We burned our precious national treasure on nothing, when it could have practically saved everyone in our nation from suffering.

And that is just the tip of the iceberg. We could have worked miracles in our country. We could have removed pollutants and carcinogens from dense urban areas where the children are dying of asthma. We could have fed hundreds of thousands of children who get only one meal a day. We could have supplied life-saving medicine to low-income families.

Thanks for listening to my rant. I know it's a waste of time to desapair over this matter, but it is so damned horrific and depressing to me, I can't even describe it.

[islandmkl]

1. can you imagine how the history books will describe the events of 1970 to 2020 or so...

and how that period fits into 'what became of America'?


It isn't all gone, but like Jimi sang:

'and so castles made of sand slip in the sea...eventually'...

[stillcool]

6. I wonder about those history books....

and how much the internet will affect the way they are written. I really admire the many writers that have been sounding the bell for decades. I can't imagine how it must feel, to have so few hear it.

[napi21]

2. Do YOU realize that if it wouldn't have been for Iraq we wouldn't have had to BORROW

all that $$ from China & Japan?

AL THAT MONEY isn't OURS! It's on the national credit card!

STOP talking about what it might have been used for! It shouldn't havve been BORROWED AT ALL!

[The Doctor.]

7. And the dollar would be stronger, energy prices lower, the economy healthier

if we hadn't borrowed all that money.

And we would certainly have more to work with to help Americans.

[keep_it_real]

3. Yep, America spends big time on destruction and little on Construction

America spends trillions on the negative/destruction but little on the positive/construction. Eventually the negative/destruction will destroy the nation in time.

[AzDar]

4. What is TRULY fucking astonishing is that the Republican Nominee

wants MORE of this destructive, evil shit.

What kind of person can get behind this moron?:mad:

[Kitty Herder]

5. Thanks for reminding me of the important things in the midst of the election circus. nt

[The Doctor.]

8. This is ultimately by design.

The powerful cannot allow the common people to enjoy prospertiy, because then we would take back the power.

[Mike03]

9. thank you for the input. NT

[MedleyMisty]

10. I heard an interview with Kucinich on NPR

He mentioned his desire for free college education. The host gasped and was all, "How are you going to pay for that?"

I thought, "Umm - take all of the money spent on war and death and destruction and use it?"

[Thothmes]

11. I disagree

The war has been fought on a credit card payable in the future. I have seen nothing in the last 16 years that would indicate Washington's willingness to spend that kind of money for those types of programs. No politician, D or R has come forth with the recommendation to spend three to five trillion dollars to address the problems that you have listed.