Last night's debate in Nevada held a lot of interesting moments that I think are very telling about the state of our country and how big a job it's going to be to fix the damage of the George Bush era.
One that stood out for me was when Ms. Jeannie Jackson asked about the use of private contractors like Blackwater in Iraq with mercenaries that make over $100,000 a year, while her son -- a U.S. soldier -- is putting his life on the line for his country for $30,000.
Think about everything implied by that.
We've stretched our military so thin that we've had to hire soldiers of fortune to plug the holes. But because our country is run by people who answer to big corporations instead of ordinary Americans, companies are actually getting rich from this war, while our soldiers are barely scraping by.
Worse yet, when those soldiers come home damaged, our VA system has failed them miserably, particularly when it comes to the devastating emotional effects of vicious urban combat.
The hypocrisy of this administration never fails to amaze me. They talk about patriotism. They talk about family values. But every single time it comes to actually doing something that would help Americans who honestly need and deserve help, they choose to serve the big corporations and special interests that back them.
After seven years of this ideology, our situation is very grave. And it's only getting worse.
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Thee are my thoughts exactly, but I am not the one who wrote the above. It was in an e mail I received from Governor Richardson.
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