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Please, bear in mind I am talking about the US, not some small country which for the most of its history
of existence was occupied by some other foreign forces. Now, let me go back to those 40,000
people who cannot afford the health care and might perish due to this. Tell me what is the
difference between 'deaths' of people who died due to the lack of the health insurance, and of
those who died due to the actions of a regime that prosecute its political opponents. I might lack
the knowledge, and please forgive on my ignorance, and would be more than happy to learn more,
but do you want to refer to me that 30, 40 or even more years ago people were better off in
the US in regard to the health issues, or it is only the fact that today we are able to count them
and speak of them. Now, can you imagine what a horrendous regime it would be that prosecute
40,000 people due to its political believes. We can agree, I believe, that something like that
would be quite an insane and horrible act. Now, how do we justify deaths of 40,000 people who die
because they do not have the access to the health care purely to the reasons that selfish
power holders do not want to provide access to it, for if the government pay for it, then they
might won't be able to have about 600 military basis throughout world and perversely huge
amount of wealth for themselves.
The one great mind, who is truly the source of my courage to speak of this here today, said
once that the US had spent 500,000ドル to kill just one Vietnamese soldier, while at the same
time spent 50ドル for a poor person, here, in the US.
Do I need to go now and comment the expense about the Iraq and or Afghanistan war in
relation to these 40,000 souls I talked about.
So, please tell me how my comment abut myself not being able to see any change taking place
is short sighted? And above all, I haven't ever said that a some type of a change will never come?
I believe I was wondering what we can do to get real change to come. Maybe I wasn't clear enough
in clarifying what change I am referring to. I am talking abut our inability to disassemble NATO in
Europe, removing nuclear weapons from the Europe, jail at least one criminal bankster, stop
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, hidden wars in Yemen, and who knows where else, ongoing deaths
of thousands of people in the US due to the lack of the health insurance, stop enslaving people
with the false promising of better future through the schooling.
Now, let me go back to the education, and these experiences about dealings with predatory loans.
I want to firmly assure you this is not only about my own experiences, but the experiences of other
people living, here, in the US, as well. It is not only about myself. Honestly I cannot care less about this
capitalistic ideology of individualistic preaching that, at the end, it is only our own, personal, individual
reason that we are worse off than the rest of the other hard working people; as all of this is not
the byproduct of the system made so to make the profit out of it. Unfortunately, I just do
not accept your statement. Again, please, bear with me, I am talking abut the US, right, the country
that spends abut 500ドル billion dollars a year for the military, OK. And it's been going on like this
more or less for how long, 10 years, 20, 30, how long? Of course 20 years ago the amount
was not 500ドル billion, but I believe was quite similar in its equivalence. Have you seen any real change
in regard to this? Have you seen any decrease in military spending since the greatest evils of all,
the USSR, disappeared from the world map? Do you really believe that the material wealth, cars,
houses that the most of the middle class of America owns (?) is due to their income or it is due
to borrowed loans. Loans should not be something that we consider as the wealth of ours. It is
something we have to repay to those who lend them to us, right? And those who lend us loans
make profit out of the payed interest on these loans, right? Also people loose their houses if
they cannot repay their loans. If there has been change going on, why do we have million
foreclosures today, why? So, unfortunately, I just can't see how short sighted it is what I said
in regard to change.
Regardless, I must, say, I am deeply touched by the people’s compassion that all of you showed
by reading our posts. I am truly thankful to all of you. But, at the same time, to all of you
I want to say, I didn't say this for the sake of myself, I said this for the sake of my inability
to see that there is a change going on, while certain things, I just mentioned them, are still
here, and have been here for quite some time. They were here among us while we were
believing that we are the ones who are bringing or are the sources of the real changes to
some parts of world. We have had obvious failures, not to address, but to solve these
horrendous issues, deaths of tens of thousand of people in the US, contemporary enslavement
through the loans swindle, military machinery, neo-imperialism of Europe, the US, Canada
through NATO, preventing wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen...
In all of this I was using my personal experience just to put a touch of human personality to it,
so to show that these are not mere numbers. We are human beings, as well. I mean, we are
not wealthy in any account, though still human beings. And why our lives are any less valuable
than the lives of the other unfortunate people suffering throughout the world due to
corrupted regimes. It seems to me as if we are way too easily moving over these issues.
Also it seems (I cannot judge, but can reasonably assume) as if we believe that our regimes are
in some way better, more humane, even though we can see that they are, not only, capable of
causing horrendous sufferings to the rest of the world due to the waged wars, but are causing
suffering to their own population.
I do not see any changes in that regard. Also I am not saying that people are not working
extremely hard to make changes happens. People are working throughout the world to make
changes for the benefits of the common good. But before mentioning changes in other
countries, and before mentioning our contributions to these changes, let's look into
our own backyard. It really can't be any simpler. And if we see that there are problems
going on, but really horrendous problems, just in different forms, we should ask ourselves
why they are going on. How it has happened they they have been going on in front of us
for this long.
Best,
gORAN
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