Unacceptably horrible is the fact that my government, through our USA bunch of politicians, overall prefer give money, bombs and other goods to be used in slaughter and ruination initiated by foreign lands like Israel and the Ukraine rather than uplift and improve the quality of life at home. In fact, what a pathway forward of war supporting shows exactly the priorities that the brunt of our politicians want … and it’s clearly not helping improve USA communities.
Meanwhile, it’s scandalous that many of the financially poor states in the USA have no extra funds to pay out for Medicaid (healthcare and medicine for needy children and adults), SNAP (food stamps) and other aids for the poorest of the poor. So we desperately need a living wage in this country, as well as more (affordable) housing. So that the very hard working and the disabled individuals can manage to stay alive and healthy with a roof over their heads.
As it is, we already have lots of severe health care problems unaddressed in the USA. So let’s not make the situation any worse than it already is through exacerbating the situation by taking away the few basic benefits that some impoverished people in some U.S. locations have that Trump’s “big beautiful bill,”, if passed in the Senate, would deny supportive help to the worst off of peoples in the U.S.
In fact, you should see, for example, some of the hardship cases — the mentally and physically sick people of all older ages living in a small tent village behind the mini-mall where I grocery shop. Then again, on second thought, no, you shouldn’t. It’s too heart wrenching and sickening a view. Besides, it is dangerously to go up there as there are, supposedly, thieves, rapists and crazed angry people needing mental health support in the group.
Indeed, just about any of these tent communities anywhere can break your heart in compassion and empathy! The reason is, of course, that this is absolutely no way for any persons anywhere to have to live!
Meanwhile, I want to know: Why are we USAers as a country giving war supplies and huge financial donations to other countries (like Israel and the Ukraine) when our infrastructure (U.S. water systems, roads, bridges, public sewerage stations and much more) are falling apart at home? Why do we have deeply impoverished whole communities here unable to take care of minimally basic needs like food and shelter beyond just living in dilapidated tents in woods like my tented bunch with poison ivy present, along with too much heat to endure in the summer and too much bone chilling cold in the winter, too much mud in the spring and unpredictable storms in the fall, in addition to their having no sanitation facilities, nor bathrooms, nor showers, nor anywhere to cook or wash dishes. Why in this wealthy country — the USA — must we have such glaring atrocious paucity spotted all across the whole land?
Obviously that this set of circumstances exists is one of the U.S. major outrageous shames, along with many others like support of foreign wars that are openly aimed at burying children alive in the rubble of collapsed buildings.
It is especially unacceptable since some in the USA Congress; the President, himself; some of the wealthiest people in America and loyal Trump “yes men” (and affirmative women) know that they want even deeper cuts to U.S. health care (i.e., nearly a trillion dollars voided in Medicaid), food assistance — SNAP food stamp benefits planned to be cut by at least $211 billion to give millionaires and billionaires a tax break that would impact at least 2.5 million poor children who are for some of them already malnourished, countless frail and emaciated elders and others like permanently injured veterans due to their harm received in our nation’s war engagements … and all to free up money to give to other lands like Israel for further dangerous war (ad)ventures abroad?
No, this arrangement is needs to be totally rejected! We can’t keep taking away from impoverished families, Veterans (of which many have unaddressed PTSD issues due to the trauma that they faced), fragile elders and others in need in the USA so as to get billions and trillions more freed up for a combination of tax break for the wealthiest, more money for ICE raids and illegal immigrant deportations without due process of law, and to carry out the deliberate murder of children and other noncombatants abroad, in addition to my country joining covertly into new conflicts like the one started up recently against Iran, which just might wake the Sleeping Bear (Russia) and the usually peaceful Panda (China).
No wonder, then, that between five and eleven million people in the USA protested in the “No Kings” demonstrations on last Saturday since so many of us are close to being totally fed up with our dysfunctional and sociopathic government that won’t support us much on the stateside front and keeps intending to destroy both humans, landscapes and other form of life abroad. Enough! We’ve had enough!
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Sally Dugman lives in and writes from MA, USA where our local government here is striving overall to make our state exemplary for other to follow as is usual and much to the chargrin of some rightwingers: We rank number one in many indices, as well as
