After careful consideration and thought, I wonder if I want to continue to post a blog, with short stories and poems and rants and raves. The way it is recieved at times disappoints me, and at other times surprises me. I think to myself is it worth doing this or am I doing it for the hell of it. I sometimes wonder am I speaking to myself or is anyone listening, I guess I will never know really. Only time will tell me if i will be heard or ignored in the world.
I am not a professional writer, a publisher or editor, nor a science geek or tech geek either. But I am a disabled american veteran with thoughts on what is right in the world and thoughts on whether we are fighting wars or battles we should be fighting. I have my beliefs and thoughts on the wars America is now involved in and i firmly believe we need to get the hell out of them all.
Each war zone or policing action we are in is costing the American tax payer a fortune each day in costs. Man power, equipment, and more go into this, including transporting the troops where needed and bringing them home. Lets now concentrate on just the last part please, bring all out troops home.
Iraq, Iran, Afganistan, they are quicksand pits for our military personel and our money. Not a one of these countries we are dabbling in and trying to help cares one bit about America or it’s people. They would rather see us eliminated and removed from the face of this planet. We need to wake up and stop playing the police force of the world and police our own country and straighten it all out here at home. The billions upon billions we pour out helping other countries, we can be using at home to solve our job problems, our homeless problems, our hungry problems. We are over extending beyond belief and killing ourselves to help others who will never help us back.
The said and done, while we are at it lets handle the trade agreements and fix those now instead of later. Our trade agreements have been killing this countries economy slowly since the 1980s. We gave the other countries an advantage over us by giving them breaks on tariffs and taxes and in the end they used that break we gave them to their advantage and shoved it right up the American People’s Asses by undercutting our prices, stealing what we make best and doing as they please to us. Sadly our government is dumb enough to sit here and allow them to do it, it’s time the American people stand up and say no more to our own elected officials and make them fix it all.Will we fight back or will we allow countries that don’t give two shits about us to run us into the ground?
Now onto the Occupy Movement across the United States and the world. While I believe firmly in peaceful protests and standing up and being heard like anyone else, there has to be a direction to it all. It is not Seattle, or New York or Florida or any specific city or town that needs Occupying. It is one town in one state, and one place of business that needs Occupying and changing, Ladies and Gentleman take it all to Washington, DC. Occupy the grounds of Congress and the Senate, protest the lack of effort by our politicians. Protest their inability to get anything done that will help the american economy. The hell with waiting until November 2012, when the new election cycle comes up. Americans need help now, they are losing homes, can’t find jobs, going hungry and starting to sleep in cardboard boxes on the streets. The street corners are filling up with Americans with signs, Will Work for Food, shouldn’t that tell our politicians something, like move now, get off your asses!?
In closing this today as my blog, I have to go back to my point in the beginning of it. Is it worth my time and effort to write this each day and let it sit on the internet to be read. Will it make a difference? Or am I just another voice being blown through and by the wind that echos off of things but is never listened to? I guess only time shall tell on that point.
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