Why US?
July 2, 2008
The United States is a superpower that runs to the aid of third world countries because that is their role as big brother…no pun intended…really. Trouble is, why aren’t they keeping up with their own household first? We have national debt, homeless VETS, corrupt officials, and troubles in our own homeland that need to be taken care of before we can help someone else. Why not? Why not better our country? Let the other countries better their realms as they please while we do ours as we please.
When I was a kid, I thought I could be president. I thought the job was just too simple. I mean, all I would do to cure the national debt and homelessness would be to use the barter and Habitat for Humanity systems. The way I saw it, we were paying troops to kill and destroy [in the mind of a child, this is all they could be good for; not for gaining peace] so why not have them do the opposite? Build and aid? Simply put, barter with the country to which we are indebted; we build a few buildings or roads for you, and you clear our debts. Or how about building in our own country? Build more war veteran hospitals, homes for Habitat for Humanity, and rebuild broken roadways. Why pay these men to destroy lives? Only so they can come home wounded, often desolate, and suffering from PT SD?? So we can create a new cycle of homeless vets?
Habitat for Humanity has the right idea. They build homes, make the person that will be living in that home help with the building, and offer low-cost living opportunities to those who wouldn’t otherwise have had the chance to own a home. The houses are not extravagant, but to the person who never had a home, it is a sweet luxury. Imagine having the aid of hundreds upon hundreds of troops.
The national debt will constantly be. We are constantly dependent on something that we will need to provide funds for. But what if we used our forces to crack down on foreign dependency? To at least minimize it. With more tools and manpower, we are able to achieve results better and faster. THEN we can assist the foreigners.
Think about it. If it takes 10 men to build a home in 30 days, would it not be faster to build that same home with 100 men? If we took a break to focus on us, and get ‘us’ right, wouldn’t we be in a better position to come to the aide of a third world country? Heck, we may have so much time on our hands that we could even think of more PEACEFUL means of communication.
Yes, I know. My utopia could never be, but the theory is great. If implemented, it could be better than what we have in the very least. You never know until you try. Why do [b][i]we[/i][/b] have to be the ones to run to everyone else’s aid? Who made us the supreme being? Sure I know about treaties and powers and such, but nowhere is it written that we are absolutely obligated to go to war.
We waste money on wars and politicians in my opinion. Why? Why do we pay obscene amounts of money to these people who are corrupt anyways? Not only that, but the obscene retirement payments that these government officials get while America goes hungry. WHY? Wake the fuck up America. Take back what is yours. Stop putting money in these god damn politicians pockets. Fuck them. They do not give a shit about you. All they care about is them. FUCK THEM. I am tired of seeing problems that could be easily handled if these guys would dip in THEIR motherfucking pockets for a change. If THEY would step up and do something. All this talk of not having social security and these guys are getting mad ass pensions! WTF. And then we pour money into coalition groups that fight only because another certain coalition group was formed (aka the Christians vs. Everyone else). Why not go back to what we build this country on? The rights of the people! We broke away from the Brits in order to AVOID having to be controlled by a governmental power. So that our rights, wants, and desires mattered. Yet we are constantly trying to ban gay rights, stop women from having their right to choose, and intrude on any other right that does not have a single damn thing to do with us but that we do not like someone else having.
This is not how things have to be. Martin Luther King, Jr. once gave a speech that is infamous in human history. He envisioned better for our nation and it became more than a dream; it became a reality. We do not have to grin and bear the lot we have been given; if anything, this is the one place in the world that we can do anything we set to do.
I am tired. I hate to think of myself as an American because of what the word represents, but am privileged to have been born in the land of the free…even if the term is relative.
Tags: United States, troops, vets, utopia, war
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