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Oh the Games People Play Now
Every night and every day
now
Never meaning what they
say now
Never saying what they
mean now
Once upon a time there was
no higher honor in America
than to be a member of the armed forces.
But little and long wars have a way of desensitizing people to the
dangers, the deaths and the casualties of war.
I remember after World War
II that we celebrated our veterans and their role in world peace every year and
multiple times a year during holidays, parades, and the many air and military
shows that were ever present.
As a kid of a veteran we
grew up to know every battle in every war our parents had fought in and we were
thrilled to go to the military air shows and parades where all the planes and
equipment that protect our parents was on display.
Over time the Korean War
stalemate seemed to dampen the enthusiasm for the military and by the time
college came and brought Vietnam
there seemed to be no sense in why we were fighting wars as 55,000 of our
classmates died.
America had become split.
And the more and more we learned about the war the more the prestige of
the military, the intelligence agencies and our federal government lost
popularity.
Then came 9/11 and the World Trade
Center destruction and
suddenly the nation rallied around the military and the government once
more. Faulty intelligence led to the
invasion of Iraq and God
only knows what led to the invasion of Afghanistan and we were suddenly
pinned down into two wars without logic, without purpose and without the
support of the nation.
Most certainly the arms
industry, what President Eisenhower warned about when he said the
military-industrial complex could become our biggest enemy against peace, has
profited from these and every other war the last few centuries.
So have the financial
institutions and Wall Street.
But the endless wars
seemed to sap the enthusiasm of the public and suck the money out of our
economy that was desperately needed for some crucial services. While we were spending billions of dollars
every year fighting wars that could never be won back home our infrastructure
like roads, bridges, sewer and water systems, power plants, even the schools
where we sent our children, were falling apart by American standards.
When the budget is tight
it seems greed always profits at the expense of the people.
Our twin wars brought out
greed to a brazen degree never seen before as millions and even billions of
dollars in military, foreign aid and intelligence spending disappeared
somewhere between America, Iraq, Afghanistan and the pockets of the rich.
What was our reward? A housing, banking, automobile and stock
market crash in 2008 that nearly wiped out what little assets the middle class
had to begin with. So we were the
victims of lousy government and the victims of unscrupulous hucksters in the
housing, financial and banking industry.
What happens next? Well us victims, thanks to the omnipotent
wisdom of Washington,
use our money to bail out the bankers, bail out the brokers, bail out the
unethical auto people, bail out crooks and creeps of all manner of dress,
status and income.
But all that is behind us
now. Except there is a problem with the
very government leading us down the path of self-destruction. Thank Divine Providence our leaders are so
busy name calling and fighting that nothing happens in our Capitol since they
are too busy stealing our capital to cause us more problems.
Then we find out the
Veterans Administration, another of those agencies President Obama is responsible
for until the buck is passed to him at which time he passes it back like a hot
potato, well we find out the Obama Vet gang is killing our soldiers.
Seems the Veterans
Administration has hospitals that created secret lists so they could improve
their election year statistics. Many of those vets in need of life saving treatment are
refused treatment by the hospital regardless of the seriousness of the condition and told to get on the primary physician care waiting list, thus there is no backlog of hospital cases.
In the Phoenix
VA hospital alone it is alleged over 40 real people were refused emergency treatment by the hospital and moved to the secret list of those waiting to see VA primary care doctors. They have now disappeared from the secret waiting list, allegedly, because the 40 have died waiting to be seen by doctors.
Seems a bunch of other VA
hospitals might have done the same thing perhaps to make the Administration look good
during the fall elections. These
actions, like a host of other acts swept under the rug by the Administration and
the Administration press agency, the national news media, shed a disturbing
light on the underbelly of the beast we call the US government.
You see, this is not just
a policy dispute or a partisan blow up, this is criminal bordering on
murder. You can bet the spin doctors
will be burning the midnight candle once again.
And speaking of doctors,
stay tuned for one of my next articles, again trying to shed light on the lousy
way we treat our military and vets, and my analysis of the health treatment of
our veterans while in the service where they supposedly get the best medical
help available yet it seems they are virtually lab rats rather than patients.
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