Maybe we need to send Dan to Washington (he always has his super-duper calculator with him) and have him sit down and explain to these imbeciles that the math just doesn't work. Maybe we could all send each of our legislators a calculator and maybe provide them with a tutor or math translator (after all we're paying for translators in public schools for kids who don't speak English) to help them better understand that we are no longer willing to pay for private wars, illegal immigrants, or bridges to nowhere, and that we cannot afford to continue these devastating policies.
But, thanks to those who cling to the right vs. left paradigm, who think God loves us more than others, that gay people are demon possessed, who hate the Muslims because some money grubbing preacher said that God wanted us to hate them and kill them, who believe that killing people "over there" is not going to happen "over here" or that supporting candidates from either side who will only give us more of the same things we have been enduring.... thanks to those people, nothing is going to change.
In the end I have to repeat Dan's question: "Why don't we just buy the oil?" Think of all the grief, the killing, destruction, hatred, bigotry, jobs, homes, businesses that would have been preserved. Think of all the good that could have been done throughout our own country with 500 billion that has been squandered for war and to enable the destruction of our Republic.
Then ask yourself, why we didn't just buy the oil?
Marti Oakley
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