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Vinnie From Indy

(10,820 posts)
Thu Jun 6, 2013, 05:00 PM Jun 2013

The real obscenity of the War on Terror is the money being stolen

Since 9/11 our government has spent trillions of dollars allegedly to keep Americans safe from terrorists. If one were to add up the deaths of Americans from terrorist attacks since 9/11 it would add up to a few thousands of people including those killed on 9/11. The grotesque reality is that TENS OF THOUSANDS Americans die early every year from lack of health care. Millions more suffer in great pain because they have no health care. Tens of thousands of Americans die from gun violence EACH YEAR. There are other things that are killing Americans by orders of magnitude greater than our risk of death from "terrorists".

One wonders how many Americans could be saved each year if only a fraction of the money now being spent to allegedly protect us from "evil-doers" was spent on things that are actually killing us by the truckload every day.

It's all bullshit! The War on Terror has as only a minor component the actual safeguarding of Americans. The rest is just theft.

Cheers!

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