An End To Aggression Is Imperative

While health care legislation and political party battles have dominated proceedings of this 111th Congress, there are “number one” priorities that have gone unserved, mainly the economy and war.

First, Congress critically needs to limit spending drastically. The country is in a financial mess, not because of its inhabitants, but because of their government which went on a spending spree during the first 10 years of this century, a trend that continues today.

It is being called a recession, but for too many it is a depression; this depends upon who you ask. If you ask an elected official, it’s not much of a problem, he or she is taken care of. If you ask a middle-class worker where both the husband and wife are forced to work (if they can find a job) and they are barely scraping by, then it is a depression. Nearly every age bracket is in this category.

The trillions of dollars being appropriated to benefit major corporations will not solve the problem, nor will the empty promise of President Obama to fund new programs with money to be stolen from future generations of Americans. The burdens will overwhelm any token advances.

Congress must face the reality that it has caused the problem, somewhat due to its laxity in holding the Executive Branches of Presidents Bush and Obama accountable. But much of the blame goes to the hawkish endeavors to squat on the property of other nations and spend lavishly to gain control.

It is quite literally insane to believe that the U.S. armed forces can invade a Middle East Muslim country, establish a democratic government, and when leaving believe that this government will remain in power. Consider the gigantic costs that derive from these failures. The military debacle in Iraq instigated by one of the most crooked corporate servants alive, George W. Bush, does not justify the loss of thousands of American lives, including 30,000 disabled from our country, not to mention the many thousands of deaths, disfigurements, and losses piled upon innocent Iraqis. And this does not take into consideration the monetary loss to American taxpayers — hundreds of billions of dollars so badly needed here that were quite literally stolen by Bush and his conglomerates.

And now, Obama wants to go on his spending spree by expanding the war in Afghanistan. And, on the horizon, what are the costs going to be in Yemen or Somalia where to attempt to extract their money to benefit American corporations would most definitely be paid for — again — by taxpayers and the lives of our soldiers.

Remember this. “They” do not want us there. Our troops in any Muslim country causes resentment and an ever-expanding war scenario — acts aimed at further destroying the American economy.