Welcome to the United Socialist Corporate Welfare States of America. This year Americans will not be celebrating their faux independence with fireworks. Most states, cities and towns don’t have the budget to fund fireworks. Our taxes are going to Wall Street to fund corporate legalized crime. We are sending 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan at a cost to taxpayers of $750,000 for each troop per year. Afghanistan is a much more expensive war because of the rough unpaved terrain. This July 4th we have had the news of unemployment averaging at 10% and as high as 16% in some states. People are losing homes and jobs. The future does not look bright. There is no upturn in sight. Things are going to get worse before they get better, if they ever do get any better. Our government funds Wall Street bankers to boost the economy but people don’t have any money to buy anything. Even if Wall Street starts lending money, the people won’t be able to pay it back, let alone qualify for it. This is little more than the new millennium prohibition era with thugs taking our money through the U.S. treasury.
Why celebrate independence anyway? What are we independent from? The British? How about our own government? Our taxes fund all these things without our consent. They are dictated to us. We’ve had nationwide “tea parties” in protest of the Wall Street bailouts. We are in a war in Afghanistan with no exit strategy. We don’t know who we’re fighting. We are incapable of distinguishing civilians from Taliban and so we just bomb and raid civilian homes. We occupy Afghanistan just as we occupied Iraq and just as the British attempted to occupy the U.S., the independence from which we celebrate this holiday. Anyone who celebrates this independence day is a bigot and a hypocrite. We are not independent. Our flag does not deserve our honor and respect on this day in 2009 when our troops fight and die in vain for no known cause. Our bombing and killing of civilians motivates surviving young men to join the insurgency against the U.S. and fight back. Our war is a liability to our freedom. Our troops do not protect our freedoms they endanger them. July 4th is a sham.Our flag does not stand for freedom today. It stands for corruption, deceit, and dictatorship.
Hi Jon,
You have the fredom to write the above ,durring the second wold war we did not have thie
fredom.
Oran Algeria North Africa was control By the Nazi,'d' est Boche ' Radio London was jam by the Nazi , No new paper,France was sold to the Nazi.It is ok I love your article above,We have to defende our self.I have much more to said about the second wold war that I experienced.
Juliette R Griesemer