Damn, Wardog, you forget to mention Watergate, the Green River Killer and the Swine Flu. Unlike Canada, Iraq and Afghanistan, which were conceived, born and function perfectly in one instant, the USA is a painful work in compromising progress. America dreamed of high horses from the beginning. Wants them. Wants to get on them. I dream of high horses. People are the problem. Not the horses.
But, my first point/question would have to be what high horse do we need to get off of? This music video is VERY clear that we have fallen OFF a high horse of ideals and would like to get back on it. Or PURSUE a higher horse. This song is about protest from normal, everyday people. Normal people want small government and less taxes. Americans with thinking disorders like to accuse other Americans like this who want to “take their country back" ...ahhh…back to what? They like to ask "Back From whom?" Liberals like to finger point that these wanton Americans want to go back to the “Bush years” that led to this or that problem, or paint wanton folks as wanting the “old racist days.” They are misguided or deceiving politicians or utter morons.
What normal Americans want is back to is smaller government and way less taxes. We want back from the royalty/politicians. Way less taxes. THAT will grow the economy. For many of us, it seems even a simple-minded buffoon would understand that more money in the citizen's hands means more economic action. Not measly Bush tax cuts. Not some 2-year little gift of a tax break here or there. We mean significant tax cuts FOREVER. Interesting that John F. Kennedy is in the film saying that each tax dollar takes away from American growth. Kennedy the 1960s democrat it seems, was a conservative.
A great majority of the Americans people tire of all politicians. A new vast survey came out saying that the favored winner is the new Republican, not the old Republican. And no democrats. We are sick of the old republicans. WE are sick of republican in general. We are sick of all of them. THAT is a high horse. I don't need to listen to the music video a second time to catch that idea. I got that on the first run of the music video. Fixing failure. Fixing discontent. Fixing runaway budgets.
My second point would be about trillions-effect spent in Iraq. When I was a kid, a trillion was a joke word, like gazillions. Maybe there were a trillion stars. There are one million, millions in a trillion. A trillion has 12 zeros and is written 1,000,000,000,000. In the American system one billion is 1,000,000,000 and a trillion is 1,000,000,000,000, so one trillion is one thousand times one billion. In the British system one billion is 1,000,000,000,000 and one trillion is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 so one trillion is one million times one billion. Whew! Anyway, a trillion is a mind-boggling lot.
The Iraq war cost about 700 Billion or so? I read 709 billion the other day in the news, when Obama did his “bait and switch” name-game and changed the name of remaining troops to “non-combat troops.” But I have seen 900 billion from a very liberal viewpoint -
http://usliberals.about.com/od/homelandsecurit1/a/IraqNumbers.htm.
Hard to define I guess? But even 100 billion is a drop in the proverbial bucket to a trillion. If you watch the USA Obama government budget trends, trillions and trillions are tossed around like mad. Record breaking trillions in debt have been added in the few short months this disturbed man-child has taken office.
Anyway, and this from a country that just spent this - "Washington will spend $2.6 million training Chinese prostitutes to drink more responsibly on the job."
The Iraq war did not cause the INTERNATIONAL/global economic decline. (In fact, lately it was a lasting job's program! Huge contracts! Huge manufacturing!)
But it is very easy to see how an ignorant person or an outsider, foreigner would assume the Iraq War seemed to toll “trillions” and would seem to cause the collapse of the USA economy, domino-ing into the world collapse.
More points later.
