[Athena]

Well, I see I didn't ease all of what I wrote, only half it, and I am going to the leave what is here alone and take a break.

Quote by: Milton Bradley Athena, I see repeated attempts by you to lump the collective "we" all together when you talk of placing the blame. What blame? I think in terms of cause and effect and the word "blame" through me into a fit of confusion. While I understand that that is fundamentally true, I think this is truly misplaced blame. I do not believe you can lay the blame of our foreign policy in the lap of the average Ameican. We have been decieved, and our government hijacked by the corporations, who in turn do the real damage. In the 1920's a newspaper warned, Given our known oil supplies and rate of consumption, we are headed for economic disaster and possibly war. I think it is terrible that we have had no understanding of this and continued down the path of economic disaster and war. I think public education has greatly failed the people. Darn thing about ignorance is you can't really fault the ignorant, and when the ignorant make presidents out of the ignorant, who even brag about not thinking, well, the human failing is pretty huge. It was not until socialist leaning legislation was slipped into our capitalist system that the welfare of the masses was deemed to be the governments responsibility. In truth, our government is not responsible for the welfare of its own citizens, let alone the well being of the entire globe. I can not agree with you here. Democracy is an ideology that began in Athens, and this democracy was adjested imitation of Sparta's socialist/military state. These became essential when the Persians were invading, because Athens few rich people did not have the ability to hire enough people to defend Athens, and the non propertied people needed for the defense of Athens, just walked away and waited for the invaders to leave. They didn't care that property of a few was destroyed. The real solution to your prolem is to restore law, and order, so the free American can prosper in a trluy free market. That way, prosperous Americans will be willing to give of their abundance in the form of charity. Our own modern history proves that forcing socialist policies into a free market system only seems to have exposed the greedy corporations, and politicians for what they really are. The corporations have a clear agenda, and politicians have proven to be for sale to the highest bidder. We strive to get away from your concept of government, and wealth redistribution. In truth, what you are asking for is more violations of the law. Our government is not empowered to spend American taxpayer monies in the way you descibe. The other possible solution to your problem is to move to a socialist country where you can practice your idealism with like minded people. Of course, I don't see any socialist countries redistributing their wealth outside of their own borders, so this must all be a big plug for one world government, right?

I just spend about an hour replying to what you said and accidentally erased it. I think I will go shot myself. Or may be just take a break and go get some milk and clean my kitchen and try again. The issues are not as black and white as they have been presented. In a democracy where people have self government, it is the people who can held accountable for what their government does. Does this mean they are to blame when they are poorly governed? I guess so.

Who is to blame when a very wealthy town becomes a ghost town? When this happens it is the fault of all those who allow it to happen. It is darn stupid, short sighted planning, and the whole mid east faces this problem now, as their only resource is oil, and when it is gone the economies come to an end, unless they plan better than the people who filled the mining towns of the west. How totally stupid to live by each man out for himself, establishing towns with property value and thriving businesses, and run this into the ground, leaving a value ghost town. Human beings survive by working and planning together, and this is how democracy works. Failure to do so well, is failure for all.