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Originally Posted by Superbelt
Some of us see this nation waste money on way too much defense, unnecessary wars, and unfesable weapons alongside lopsided tax cuts that make the top 10% of americans pay a smaller percentage of their income than everyone else and then we look at the rankings like this... knowing we could make this place better if we just got our prorities straight as a society.
We're not perfect, but those in control aren't even trying to move us towards the ideal.
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I wonder what that $200 billion going to Iraq would have done to try and shift just one of the statistics above. Could we be in the top 15 with literacy by investing $200 billion wisely into the school system? Could we take back those 1.3 million jobs from China? Could we see more advancement in the area of science with an extra $200 billion?
Nope. The money is either out of the country, or in the pockets of some of the richest people in the US.