Profit above all else

 I have a grandson who is a cadet at the U.S. Air Force Academy.  I am extremely proud of him and love him very much.  That doesn't mean that that pride and love must extend to his Washington bosses.  It doesn't! 

 The principal argument here is not about whether or not we should have missiles or planes or tanks, etc. The real question is our morality, our compassion for those who are suffering, or lack thereof.   

When Pamela and I visit family in the east we live about ten miles north of Fort Campbell.  Often I can hear the Howitzers firing.  Each boom that I hear costs the American taxpayer from $10,000 to $150,000.

Now you can have quite an argument about the costs, etc., of such ordinance.  You can see how capitalists are getting filthy rich charging exhorbitant prices. When I was in the Army the joke was about the $500 hammers. We got paid $102 a month. The capitalist got more than that for every mortar we fired, and, yes, there were the $500 hammers.  

But even that isn't what this is about.  This is about the inhumane attitude, the capitalistic mindset, that would have us have a military that is larger than the next ten largest armies in the world combined when we have people (and I've known some of them) who are dying because they can't afford their medicine or don't have food and shelter.  An amazing number of those people are veterans who served our military goliath.  Profit above all else!

Seven percent of Americans die because they cannot afford their medications.  A 2009 study by the Harvard School of Medicine found that 45,000 American die each year due to a lack of health coverage. Over 38 million households (11.8% of American families) suffer from hunger and poverty.  Our government and capitalists don't blink an eye at a $28 million dollar drone, that costs $3,624/hr to fly, shooting a $70,000 missile, but when we want to talk about the welfare of our citizens we suddenly don't have the money?  

When are we going to get tired of working hard to care for our families and pay our taxes, only to have that money buy more weapons and fill the pockets of the one-percent while Americans suffer and die?  

#TriaDaemonia,  #AmericansDying,  #GreedyCapitalism,