Photos: J Church
According to the website National Priorities Project (NPP), the US has already spent $283 billion in the glorious war to bring a Shiite theocracy to Iraq. We aren’t even done. No doubt, many more will be killed, and the costs in dollars and wasted lives to create a governance irrational and medieval is the newest tragedy of the 21st Century.
We chose to attack a dictator who ruled a country surrounded by other dictators.
Closer to home, the NPP estimates that Los Angeles County alone, spent $8 billion so far to prosecute the war in Iraq. $35 billion is what it has cost California taxpayers.
One wonders what $8 billion could have purchased here in LA.
The Republicans have again changed the topic of conversation to illegal immigration, inflaming and angering Americans who think they are being robbed and fleeced by poor Mexicans slipping through underground sewers to stand on street corners in San Diego.
We could have a glorious nation if we didn’t have the G.O.P.
“She has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when conflict has been for principles to which she clings, as to the last vital drop that visits the heart. She has seen that probably for centuries to come, all the contests of that Aceldama the European world, will be contests of inveterate power, and emerging right. Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.” –John Quincy Adams, 1821
Here in Van Nuys 
Wellcome to the real world.
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Wad, touche.
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Andrew wrote:
We could have a glorious nation if we didn’t have the G.O.P.
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But don’t make the mistake that when Democrats regain control, we will see a nation the opposite of what it is now.
Our national politics are set by the prerogatives of our wealthiest residents. Take your measurement. What do you think the politics of the richest person is? The richest 25? 100? 500? 1,000? 5,000? The smaller the number, the more their politics resemble Bush’s.
But, the rich also hedge their bets by lending some succor to the Democrats. The sole reason Democrats remain a party is that the rich do not see them as a threat enough to get rid of them. Plus, the illusion of democracy keeps the rabble docile.
You have to see the behavior of the people who have the means, motives and opportunities to bend society to their own ends.
We just happen to live in a time when the people with the wealth in the country, for the most part, happen to be kleptocratic. They only want government policies that allow them to plunder the national wealth. At best, they have indifference to the rest of us. At worst, utter contempt for the horde outside of the country club walls.
They don’t see any purpose into building a great nation. They empathize with the barons of the Third World, who only care about what they extract and how much.
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$1B built Berlin the Largest train station and rail center of Europe-Hauptbahnhof, which just opened in time for the World Cup.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Lehrter_Bahnhof
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Agree completely.
This country can also learn much from the French as its TGV is the equal to the Japanese train system.
See link:
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