It is amazing to watch....

It was way more than 92,000 Iraqis killed.

It is amazing to watch, YEAR AFTER YEAR, DECADE AFTER DECADE, how our elected officials make decisions that are VERY BAD for human beings, and the American people just let them get away with it.

But these austerity measures and cut backs to come really pale as a “disaster” compared to what we did to Iraq.

The following is true for Americans, but not for Iraqis:

they still have colleges to go to and they have not been subject to random car bombings
they still have food banks to go to
they still have electricity and programs to help them meet the costs
they still have the luxury of going to the food bank or grocery store without worrying if they will come home alive
they still have the luxury of seeing their children go to school and not worry if they will come home alive
they still have the luxury of sending their spouse out to work – or to look for work – without worrying if they will come home alive
they still have functioning hospitals, and the can safely access those hospitals in an emergency even if they don’t have any money
they don’s have 1,200 infants dying every day in the USA (it is 100 per day in Iraq, and we are about 12 times the population)
they don’t have to walk miles to get drinking water, and the water out of their taps is quite good
they don’t have to drink polluted water
they don’t have to get a generator or share electricity with neighbors
they are not internal refugees inside their own country
they are not facing the choice of “run for your life or die” and running to Mexico or Canada
they generally live in areas where there is not gun battles on a regular basis
they are not seeing an epidemic of cancers, particularly in children
they have not been to serial funerals in the past years where their relatives, family, neighbors, coworkers and friends have been killed by violence.

And I wonder when the American people are going to wake up AND BECOME AWARE and demand that their government stop hurting people, stop spending all this money on evil and USELESS military activity, and stop destroying the environment. I wonder when that day will come.

I am pretty sure that day will never come as long as they have cable TV. I wonder how many people using the food banks still pay the cable bill. I personally know several people who collect food stamps, unemployment, Medicaid – and still have cable TV.

Stupid is as stupid does…… and Americans are militant in their hold on their own ignorance.  And it is very stupid to think you can allow your politicians to do massive evil on a foreign country and then expect them not to do the same here at home.

And it is also very stupid to think that a government can use violence, again and again, to "solve" the "problems" the government is facing (oftentimes, these are "problems" that they created, but I digress) and then not expect the citizens of that government to use violence to "solve" the "problems" that the citizens are facing. 

Which is exactly what is happening in the riots in the UK.