We're fighting a war in Afghanistan to root out what the U.S. admits are only 50-100 al Qaida. The average cost of having one set of boots on the ground there for a year is One Million Dollars http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114294746 , just what are we doing? Opium production there has risen 400% since the U.S. landed troops there. Some sources say it is now over 6000 metric tons yearly. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6239734.stm There are entire families addicted to the stuff. War is hell and opium makes it less so. If we gave them a democracy (which isn't the real mission there) they wouldn't know what to do with it. Between depleted uranium and opium, the Afghani's will never forget us.
Forget about the class war here in America where the top 1% of the population owns almost 40% of the wealth and the other 19% together with the1% hold 83% of the nation's wealth, leaving the bottom 80% of us with a whopping 7% of the total wealth. Never mind that the middle class has seen wages fall steadily over the last two decades while the upper 10% have had a 13% increase. Don't tax the rich! According to the GOP that will mean that they can't hire anyone. (What "like an extra maid or butler?)
So when are we going to do something about it? Obama, with his minions from Goldman Sacks aren't going to break the status quo. Anyway, he's Commander-in-Chief! I say do something. If things progress the way they are, we will have the largest armed forces in the world, but they will all be mothballed. (And maybe that's a good thing). The government wants to cut everything under the sun, but the military is sacrosanct. It's about time we brought the subject up loud enough for these cowards in Washington to hear us. Don't you think?
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