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jlf1961 -> RE: Attacks on Americans (5/10/2014 12:34:50 PM)
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ORIGINAL: BecomingV
I haven't understood the disconnect between the America I was taught to love as a child and the America I find myself living in now.
The Bush coup. The wars. The subsidizing of Wall Street.
If you are taking about the Florida recount, before it was stopped by the supreme court, it was a dead heat, niether Gore or Bush had a significant lead.
Afghanistan was justified, although could have been handled with surgical strikes of spec ops unites, black ops units and cruise missiles.
Medical problems can cause joblessness, homelessness and death.
Most medical insurance carries a disability rider, other wise there is SSDI. Other than that, this fact is true in every country on the planet.
The food supply is tainted (genetically modified) in such a way as to addict consumers, cause disease and death. It changes our DNA.
I really hate to tell you this, every food crop on the planet is GMO, thru selective breeding of the plants, as for those that have spliced genes, most of the other genes come from similar plants with desirable traits and they dont want to go through generations of selective breeding.
And it isnt the GMO food you that is addictive, Americans are addicted to unhealthy food as in Fast food, junk food, processed foods (meals in a box.)
Our electricity providers using Smart Meters are doubling our bills and blasting us with up to 20,000 bursts of radioactivity per hour and are actually setting homes on fire.
Source and proof please?
Gas prices so high that a nation changed its travel habits due to poverty.
Gas in the US is cheaper than most industrial countries.
The government shuts down and "they" still get paid, but our soldiers don't.
The marketing of madness has changed the brains of children and adults alike through prescribing drugs as if "side effects" means anything different than "effects."
Aspirin has side effects, and it was first made from willow bark.
It is not the side effects that are the problem, drugs with serious side effects are pulled by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
The U.S. is inferior to 40 other countries in the rate of maternal mortality (women dying of childbirth or of avoidable, post-childbirth complications).
The US averages 27 maternal deaths per 100000 people, that means we are 48th, The UK is 36th. Estonia has the least number of maternal deaths per capita.
Nice shot at fear mongering.
Dare I mention the education of our future leaders?
We are 24th in education, the US has never had the best education system and it does need improvement, might help to pay teachers a living wage, but that means more taxes, and no body wants more taxes.
Churches abuse congregations and spew fear and hate.
Child abuse and molestation in churches, regardless of what the media wants us to believe is the exception to the rule. Cult like groups are more prone to this, or radicalized offshoots of main stream denominations.
And this has been true since the first cave man stacked one rock on top of another and told his clan that it was god. .
And, where are the voters? The ones who can get past the police blocks at polling station feeder roads. Oh, and active soldiers... trash those votes, right Bush?
I have lived all over this country, and even in a couple overseas, I have never seen the police blocking roads to polling ares in the US, I have seen this in some middle eastern countries and central American countries.
As far as the military voters having votes "trashed" never happened, in point of fact, votes by deployed service personnel are still being counted after the general election.
If you have different information please provide a link and source.
What the F happened to the Bill of Rights? (Yes, I know... Patriot Act.)
Blame both parties for this bullshit.
Torture? Really? Are we "that" guy/girl?
Dude, I hate to break this news to you, but the US and every other country has used torture to get information. It has been going on since before JC showed up telling us to love our neighbor. Long distance phone calls (leads from crank telephone attached to prisoners scrotum) tossing enemy troops from helicopters, binding limbs to the point of breaking. All used by US troops at one time or another.
Oh, and the commercialization of privacy. Say, "cheese" for the cameras and audio recorders. Type carefully for ALL of the readers.
How many Americans need to be imprisoned?
Man there are fewer CCTV cameras in the US watching citizens than in other countries.
Sadly, I could keep going with this list. The thing is, I remember becoming politically aware at age 12. I watched Nixon and the Vietnam War news and Phil Donahue (the voice of tv daytime talk). So, between Watergate, the Pentagon Papers and the rise of Scarface culture, I had no illusions about our perfection or altruistic nature. This was soon followed by AIDS and the attempt on Reagan. It's never been simple or easy.
But, if I had to sum up America in very recent years, I'd say that the Horatio Alger myths have been smashed to smithereens. There is no more "American Dream." (Horatio is a fictional character who represents the myth that if you just work hard enough and behave as a decent citizen, then you can make your dreams come true - it's America!) It's more like Nathaniel West's novella, "The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin" has come to fruition. (The good American son takes advice from a bank, sets out to find his fortune and ends up in physical and mental pieces, and dies. Even in death, his memory is used in service of the mythology of the American Dream.)
I wonder, in perhaps inflammatory terms, if this is a takeover, an annihilation of sorts, that we don't see because we are in it. Maybe historians would know this, but it seems to me that what is going on with the middle and lower classes of American is much like what went on pre-Holocaust. We question how the "regular folk" in Germany did not sense the malice; the pending destruction. Americans are sick and dying, struggling and suffering - because of the things I listed here. Are we focused elsewhere and not noticing the massive numbers of slow deaths?
A populous dying of a caustic and toxic environment is one way to weed out those pesky future social security and medicare bills. Seriously, I know I risk coming off like a conspiracy freak but does anyone else see what I mean? It's as if we are worker ants whose only value is derived from our ability to make the rich richer.
Your thoughts?
ETA - description of Horatio Alger reference
Look, I am not saying there are no problems in the US, but compared to other countries we still have it better than most.
But misstating facts to force them in the worst possible light is no better. In fact the DNC and RNC do this constantly.
This is just more propaganda as put out by politicians and pundits.
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