Forum Post: This may be the most important issue.
Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 22, 2011, 8:14 p.m. EST by JoeTheFarmer
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I know many of you hate this guy but he is correct on this. I am not asking anyone to vote for him. Pretend he is someone else if you have to but listen to what he is saying.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlmc8ap5jEM
I think this is what they plan to do next and we will loose a lot of lives if they get away with it. Haliburton, Lockheed, and others will make a lot of money and our sons and daughters will pay the price.
Does this particular issue have a damn thing to do with the growing concentration of wealth?
The ugly truth. America's wealth is STILL being concentrated. When the rich get too rich, the poor get poorer. These latest figures prove it. AGAIN.
According to the Social Security Administration, 50 percent of U.S. workers made less than $26,364 in 2010. In addition, those making less than $200,000, or 99 percent of Americans, saw their earnings fall by $4.5 billion collectively. The sobering numbers were a far cry from what was going on for the richest one percent of Americans.
The incomes of the top one percent of the wage scale in the U.S. rose in 2010; and their collective wage earnings jumped by $120 billion. In addition, those earning at least $1 million a year in wages, which is roughly 93,000 Americans, reported payroll income jumped 22 percent from 2009. Overall, the economy has shed 5.2 million jobs since the start of the Great Recession in 2007. It’s the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression in the 1930’s.
The US spends over $600 Billion a year on military. That is 20% of the federal budget. More money than the banks and drug companies make combined. We take money form the middle class tax payers and give it to Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Boeing.
I would say that has a lot to do with concentrating wealth.
If you don't think it is important that they are setting things up and planning the next war, well I am not sure what to say.
I agree in part with you. We spend way too much on defense. Much of it is unnecessary and lobbied for by big business. By Lockheed Martin and others. However, the health care industry alone represents over 17% of our economy. That's well over $2,000,000,000,000 per year. Again, way too much.
I'm all for cutting the waste within our defense budget. But that's not enough. We need to hit the monster (figuratively speaking) from all angles. We need to take a stand against greed anywhere we see it. Greed is not simply the desire to benefit from an obscene defense budget. Greed is an obsessive desire to possess or acquire excess material wealth. In other words, to become or remain rich.
I did not mean that it is the only issue. I think it is the biggest issue. They have been playing this Iran thing up for two months now, both parties. If we get into this it will be trillions trust me.
We cannot eliminate health care, we need to make changes but I doubt we are not going to make hundreds of billions in changes.
Holy crap. I totally agree on Iran. We are spread way too thin already. We will lose another 5000 soldiers or more in Iran. And certainly trillions more in unnecessary spending. I suppose a surgical strike is possible but very risky. It could be another Iraq of we go in.
All of these issues facing our country, and, of course, the entire world make my head spin. It is just mind boggling all of the craziness and energy bent on evil in the world. Damn disgusting and sad. But remember that Atlanta Rythym Section song, I'm not gonna let it bother me tonight? I'm going to go put that beat up old vinyl 12" LP on the beat up old Girard turntable and tune out the world noise. "tomorrow I might go as far as suicide, but I'm not gonna let it bother me tonight, no, no... No no...