My Idiot America: Why Can't We Get It Together? (Part 2)
Ok, we’ve been back and forth with lockdown since March. I buckled down, even with the panic of possibly not having toilet paper, and we did what we were supposed to do. I guessed that most of today’s Americans are not used to making real sacrifices. I mean we send our sons and daughters off to wars that have been going on for almost 20 years, with the exception of those troops and their families, these wars have asked little from the American public. Oh, wait, we have paid TRILLIONS of dollars since 2001 on these “Wars on Terror.”(Yeah, I know, we don’t call them that any more, but that’s what they are…) According to Win Without War, we have spent over 5 Trillion Dollars in the past 20 years, ( https://winwithoutwar.org/ ) enough for our federal government to pay back Social Security, fund Medicare-for-All, and feed everyone. But we’d rather people die then take care of others with our tax money, which brings me to the point of this writing. First, I want to sa...