A MAN WHO TRADES FREEDOM FOR SECURITY DESERVES NEITHER!

A MAN WHO TRADES FREEDOM FOR SECURITY DESERVES NEITHER!

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The above blog heading for June 10, 2014 is borrowed from good old Benjamin Franklin, and actually reads, “The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either.” Now I’m not questioning the wisdom of Mr. Franklin, nor am I questioning his patriotism, no indeed, what I mean is that in Franklin’s time, war usually was a necessity. However, even during Ben’s time, the waging of war was not taken lightly…..pretty much unlike it is today.

The consequences of war carried a hell-of-alot more diverse effects on the population during the infancy of the United States than it seems to in today’s world. One’s got to remember that there wasn’t any electricity, paved roads, cars, trucks, or fast food establishments that cater to us…..today. Absolutely not, in the late 18^th century it was an almost a fulltime job to stay alive.

Since the Great War, World War I, the United States has been involved in 37 military conflicts counting World War II. To tell you the truth I was kind of flabbergasted, I looked for a list of casualties, and the cost of our warring mentality but could come up with neither. An educated guess would be a million deaths, and billions and billions of dollars spent in the name of…..well you pick-um, wealth, patriotic beliefs, fighting for freedom, policing the world, rescuing oppressed people, or job creation.

Putting a finger on the exact monetary numbers is really, really hard to do, pretty much because some of the costs for waging war are all over the board of budgets. It’s costly, this security effort that it seems like every American desires. Protection and serenity is necessary as we Americans go about our daily efforts to attain the American dream.

I’m not joking either, can you imagine having to devote much of your time to simply staying alive, and grubbing for something to eat every day…..like in the times of Benjamin Franklin. Wars have been waged and won by our forefathers so that we could devote much of our time to collecting as many greenbacks as possible.

Americans come from hardy stock; of course that stock has been diluted by the mingling of the races, as well as our core values and educational resources. Oh, oh, do you detect a touch of racial bias here…..absolutely not…..I’m simply stating a fact of our lives in the 21^st century. My meaning of dilution by mingling of the races is simply referencing to the fact that there is change taking place right under our eyes. History will judge the outcome of this unintentional cultural and physical revolution.

As far as I’m concerned, the mingling of the races is a good thing, because by doing so, everybody comes to realize that we really all the same, and the color of a person’s skin is, actually only skin deep. Once you get through that 16^th of an inch of skin there’s blood, muscle, grizzle, bone and body organs. To a degree body parts and fluids are interchangeable, no matter the ethnicity of the bearer, or the receiver.

VETERANS AFFAIRS…..THE CARE FOR RETURNING SOLDIERS, AND THE ROLE OF DONATING

Did you realize that the United States is spending more for soldiering than at any time since World War II, that includes the Korean War, and Vietnam? And it gets worse…..since 2001 the United States has spent more than $1 trillion, and that by 2018 that figure will be washed away in a flood of money that’ll amount to about $2 trillion dollars.

Can you imagine what you could do with $2 trillion dollars…..neither can I, and I’ve always dreamed the big dreams, forming huge business, Cadillac’s in my garage, houses in different climate zones to take advantage of temperate weather. Remember me being a baseball lover…..to live where baseball can be played, and I can have 12 months of it.

There are, of course, intricate lists of costs for the average taxpayer for our country’s soldiering all over the world…..and in many cases, not even asked to interject our military might, we take the initiative through our foreign policy priorities…..and of course that old bug-a-boo, to protect our interests.  

So you say that “how people receive us, what they think about our agendas and how we deal with foreign peoples is accepted, so we must be doing something right…..right.” Well actually we aren’t being accepted too well, and it’s been going on, this smoldering anger for decades. We’re just too damn preoccupied with chasing that almighty dollar bill to see what is way past the writing on the wall stage.

The price of freedom has been going up for decades, and it’s measured more in dollar bills (sadly) then in the body count. How has this been achieved you ask, the answer is easy, news correspondents are now imbedded, meaning that the news gatherer is fed all sorts of propaganda for his reporting, and he usually accepts what he’s fed.

You now also have Fox News, and conservative radio talk show hosts singing the praises of how our soldiering is saving the world, while quelling our enemies…..a super-human achievement. I hear, read or see about how our returning hero’s need our help…..additionally, to care for external wounds, and those pesky wounds that can’t be seen. To deny these people their due would almost be criminal. The VA clinics, hospitals, rehabbing, and the individual mental care can take forever…..and additional financial payment is necessary to care for these people.

There are dozens of veteran help organizations that civilian’s can support with monthly payments…..this (membership) patronage does not count against the Federal Governments military budgeting, and there is no accurate way to measure those that help make up the short-fall for our returning soldiers…..and I find this shortfall sickening and disgusting.

When will be wake up and understand that waging war is way too expensive for us to foot the bill, we don’t need a Republican, we don’t need a Democrat that holds sway on Capitol Hill, we need somebody with a distaste for wasting human beings, time and money on trumped up wars on terror, bully boys, conservative, liberal governments, Capitalism, Socialism, Communism. And America’s foreign policies…..please give me a large break, we need somebody who’s willing to accurately structure the policy that’ll serve people throughout the world.

 

HAVE A NICE DAY!