$87 Billion and Wherever Else It Leads
...But, I know children kids who help support their families, so they can all eat hotdogs... I work in educational settings that merely perpetuate the old ways - "the proven methods" - that no longer apply or work... I have a president that I become increasingly convinced is intent on being dictator of the world...
And, I shudder.
He says we shall destroy the terrorists "wherever that may lead us;" we'll work to enlist the support of other nations to help free the Iraqis; and we'll "help" allow them to run their own country....
For an additional $87 billion dollars. The "average" American last year earned $25,633. She'd need to work 3.4 billion years to earn that amount of money. Or, she'd need to stack single dollar bills, face-to-face, on the drive from Boston to Los Angeles and almost all the way back.
Or, she'd need a new-age rocket ship, not yet designed and lay them end-to-end, from here to the sun and back. Almost five times.
And a kid a few doors down has trouble getting to school, because the education budget's been hit and there is no school bus - unless he can pay for it. And I pass many homeless - vets, discharged pyschiatric patients, fathers holding their children - each day I travel to the city. And I wonder what we are doing and why.
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