WE HAVE BECOME A SELFISH AND UNKIND COUNTRY

We can no longer afford charity though we give it everywhere in the world but our own country.  They say 'charity begins at home'.  The charity in the US is coming from individuals rather than our government.  While I do not see the primary task of our elected officials in government as being charitable, that is what Republicans have been calling it when we are trying to rescue our own people. Those who pulled us into the war by promising that we would not have to pay anything drove us into being close to bankruptcy.  In fact, not only have they freed themselves of responsibility financially but also from responsibility for the more than four thousand who died and over 30,000 wounded whose lives have been changed forever. Today, Republicans see our saving our citizens from the result of their poor governance and criminal handling of the war, as charity.

My personal story would suggest otherwise. During the great depression, my father  (who had worked his way up as an immigrant) used profits from his farm to  a house in Boston near stores and offices in a building he had bought.  As a result of the depression, stores and offices were remaining empty.  He could see that he would lose the building and probably his home if he couldn't pay the mortgage as many others were seeing for themselves.  Unlike others, however, he borrowed more money and bought a farm. The two totally different properties served him well with totally different sources of income.  He survived the depression and the war and was eventually able to move back to the city home he had built when he was getting too old to farm.

The Republicans who are trying to balance the budget and curb spending seem not to understand that there will be fewer jobs and far more personal suffering.  They do not understand the old saying, "It takes money to make money". Those who say our government is broken are wise.  It is.  We have  too many people voted into office on lies who have no idea about how a government runs.  They are only there to be self-serving, though they are being paid to serve forces out to destroy our government.  They no longer care at all about what their constituents think or want and expect to con their way back to re-election.

Sweden is more humanitarian.  Perhaps they can afford to be ion that they didn't bankrupt their economy with a useless war. For details about their handling of medical needs of strangers as well as citizens, click here.