Christine Valentor sent this through in a response to my post on wishes for 2017. It certainly made me think. Thank you Christine.
‘800 billion dollars has been spent on weaponry in the middle east. (Yes BILLION!) Somehow, the US produced it all. Just pulled it out of their back pocket, you know how they do. Miraculous, is it not? And yet, kids in school cannot have desks, heat, air conditioning, text books, safety nor proper food. Not to mention music, art and theater education.’
We live in times of austerity where there is no money for the disabled, for the poor, for schools, social services or the NHS, yet there is a bottomless pit for military force.
800 Billion to blow countries to pieces, send populations migrating, destroy homes, kill children, breed fundamentalism and terrorism and make the world unsafe.
No money for nurses, care workers or schools.
Something has to change. This mentality seems wrong to me.
Thanks Opher! Spread the word 🙂 I cannot imagine any human being not becoming outraged at this.
Some do not seem to care and some set out to create it and profit from it. There are a minority of scum who create problems for everyone else.
Exactly so. They are not ‘wired’ right within their hearts, and they live purely for greed and money. They, however, are the minority and WE are the majority. (They the 1%, we the 99.) I am hoping through sharing the information, people will wake up to these alarming statistics.
The internet may turn out to be a very powerful tool for transmitting info, connecting and creating a true democracy. I have hopes. I am optimistic. Build the zeitgeist. Overwhelm that 1% with the force of love and reason. People can be altruistic and caring.
And how much of those huge profits are ever paid in taxes, I wonder? And to think people object on purely chauvinist grounds to the pitiful amounts going to foreign aid … time for some joined-up thinking in 2017, methinks!
One rule for the rich, with their tax havens and accountants, and one rule for everybody else. It is about time we created a fairer more just society and thought more globally.
Mentality is what needs to change!!!
Education can change that mentality. I’ve witnessed it!
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Iran is looming!! Must be a Presidential election – or impeachment!!
Of course that’s all it is. The stupid Trumpist “base” loves wars, particularly when waged against Muslims or just brown people. Trumpists are sooo incredibly stupid, they don’t realize Orangy is jerking their chains. Oh, Trumpy just LOVES ‘murrica. Look at how he hugs flags. Real sincere.
These populists sure know how to play on base emotions in the gullible!!