Head-Spinning Political Shit!

[PumaJ]

From Bob Herbert's last post, Losing Our Way, in the N.Y. Times (Thanks Bulldog for the heads up), these words in particular caught my attention:

Limitless greed, unrestrained corporate power and a ferocious addiction to foreign oil have led us to an era of perpetual war and economic decline...... When the most powerful country ever to inhabit the earth finds it so easy to plunge into the horror of warfare but almost impossible to find adequate work for its people or to properly educate its young, it has lost its way entirely.

It has been my observation that the majority of the wars our nation has engaged in since WWII are in some way tied to corporate greed. I believe that old standby line about helping other nations find freedom & democracy is code for "let's make them safe for our corporations to go into & exploit the people & the land for the sake of profit & more profit".

Call me cynical if you like, but it is from my years of being an observer of national & international politics over a long period of time that I've come to that conclusion. Over that same period of time, I've been busy in my professional life working in non-profit agencies to deliver healthcare & mental health services to youngsters & their families, whose lives have been stuck in generational poverty, mental illness, various addictions, domestic violence and child abuse. All problems that increase during times of economic recession.