Years of Failing Leadership, Deserves to Be Eclipsed by an age of Capitalistic Pragmatism.

Years of Distracting our Energy on The First War we started (in Afghanistan) because we Invaded Iraq for a second time;
Years of Citizen-Soldier-Warriors being taken for granted AND;
Years of flag draped coffins being censored from the world to demoralize the world of the many costs of war AND;
Years of tax cuts, without a cent of sacrifice from the American public AND;
Years of expanded Tours-Of-Duty AND;
Years of ignoring the problems in Mexican drug cartel dominated territories which cost over 60,000 lives in the past seven and a half years AND;
Years of human rights violations AND;
Years of an unpaid war AND;
Years of ENTHUSIASM FOR VIOLENCE  like Granada, and Panama AND;
Years of reducing the focus from peace to a focus on corrupt, bloated, and chaotic wars AND;
Years of stocking caches of thousands of nuclear warheads which are not only deteriorating, but also being left out of sight, and unguarded AND;

Years of allowing military contractors to not face jurisdiction from the military or the local courts when there are pedophile laws broken because drunk American workers take multiple local sex slaves who are underage and violate every moral principle that any civilized court system upholds AND;

Years of military contractors recruiting custodians, chefs, etc to foreign bases with the standards, and a modernized version of the indentured servant system...  If you're unfamiliar, this is how it goes down:  "You live in a distressed village? (a poor African, or Asian villager is asked) You want to work and have money to live on and send some back to your family? Pay for this application (Just $4,000 , and we'll loan you the money for this application plus interest if you can't afford to pay it), then we'll put your application in the 'The Best Job Recruiting Operation' there is" .. weeks later,  "You have been accepted to a great paying job, and we'll pay for your relocation costs (Which for a poor person in Africa, is simply a One-Way bus or plane ticket.).   "Now that you're here, with the rest of the workers let's just be have out it.  You're working on a military base which is in an extremely dangerous part of i.e.. Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo, etc..  The U.S. Active Duty militia men, reservists, National Guardsmen, and enlisted persons, are on their 2nd, third, and fourth tour of duties and are experiencing mental and emotional trauma...IT CAN'T BE EXPECTED FOR THEM TO PEEL THEIR OWN POTATOES, OR CLEAN THEIR SHOWERS ANYMORE, You Have to do this now, 14 hour plus, Seven days a week, for a $100 a week pay.  And You MUST do this, because your application dues have not been paid yet, and in order to satisfy that loan we provided for you, you are looking at working here for a conservative estimate of 50 weeks before you start  getting a dollar.  And did we mention that if you try to leave here... You're an uneducated African, or an uneducated Asian, and don't speak the languages of Arabic, Pashto, Farsi, Albanian, Bosnian, You're also in the middle of war torn Iraq, or Afghanistan, or Bosnia, or Kosovo, etc.. And there isn't any hope for you to survive living a day outside of this military base, but..Seriously we can't guarantee your safety on this base either. "

Years of Reagan, Bush, Clinton, W. Bush, and Obama putting more and more blood sweat and tears into this behavior without a virtuous audit AND;

Years of nuclear weapons lobbyists claiming that their job programs  are more vital to the global balance, rather than investing in failing infrastructure right here in home AND;

Years of sending the military to natural disasters instead of the Peace Corps because the military dwarfs  every other organization AND;

Years of no competition on resources when it comes to the mothballing spectrum of "military functionality."

Who thinks se should have one year of Liberty from this un-American organization?  The trillions of dollars spent on just the operation I've listed here alone, far exceed the cost of the next costliest institutional asset of this country, (that institution is not the health care system, it is not the education, or environmental management system) social security, which is dilapidating rapidly.

If future generations are to look at present American, and world leader's policies, and the militaries' costs, and judge whether to fund the 45 year old+ retirements,  then start making up for Korea, Vietnam, The Cold War, Panama, Granada, Iran Contra, The military contractors' atrocities in Bosnia, and Kosovo, The Rampant Corruption and zero accountability of every nearsighted plutocrat who were supported and elected to go to TWO wars without a plan, and with numerous tax cuts to force the future generations to limp out of the cloud of lies that fed into"American Exceptionalism" and wake up in Europe, heating our homes with coal burning energy provided by the Shanghai Cooperation (Partnered with Russia) paying an arm and a leg for unregulated medicine, driving unregulated foreign made cars,  having big box stores that replaced community oriented mom and pop stores, and a flood of conflicts focused on resource scarcity, and egotistical chest pumping dog and pony shows that continue to appeal to the conformists.

Years of "Freedom isn't Free" bumper stickers plaguing our vehicles, yet freedom is repressed and suppressed by the U.S. office of The Attorney General,  by the U.S. Supreme Court Justices, by Presidents of the United States, and mostly by the people elected to write policies to govern our Democratic-Republic, our failing congressional "Leaders."

If I wasn't a capitalist I wouldn't know the definition of an audit.  Fortunately for me, I am a capitalist, and I have an education. It's easy to say that ignorance is bliss, and I believe that most of the country has let that become their mantra.  If you audited the policies of our military operations since post Vietnam, thru present,  one would not only realize how irrational the majority of its actions, but also gain some foresight that these failing practices are leading us to another depression, or super recession at the time when we can't afford it the most... climate change, poor education standards, poor health standards, poor sustainable infrastructure standards, poor sanitation standards, poor environmental regulation standards, an economy that doesn't know what to focus on in terms of ethical trade, (last time I checked Coca-Cola Inc. has spread across Africa, and Asia to utilize villagers water supplies so they can produce the plastic bottles for their beverage alone, not even for making the beverage) and our warriors are emotionally drained from the unjust war in Iraq, and the extended tours of duty in Afghanistan while observing abusive behaviors brought on by their own government.   It shouldn't be possible to state that there is a war of Good Vs. Evil and not be institutionalized directly after stating this in the world's present environment.  Let's start with Halliburton, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Bush,  and have them face trial...It doesn't have to be in Guantanamo Bay, it can be a military tribunal.  Just have the constitutions' heart be validated so that there can be a check or balance administered to these law breakers.  Otherwise liberty is only for the rich, and the powerful, and the rest have no voice in this vacuum of propagandized exceptionalism.

Make No Exception, Long Beach, New York-United State, and all of America has hidden problems to face.

For years, I've nauseously observed the political hackery of many 24 Hour News Station pundits.  I have no interest in being involved in a controversy, but I can't sit blindly anymore while our education, environmental, and most of all, our economic policies behave without any disciplined auditing.

Every station is breaking news on the Eurasian topic of: "Ukraine"  "It means this, Ukraine means that, Russia intends this, Russia intends that, In hindsight the USA ought to have reacted like this, like that ..etc. etc."   I'm sitting in my Long Beach, NY Kitchen, 1 year and four months since my kitchen was ransacked by Hurricane Sandy.  

In my opinion the psychotic pundits on TV are projecting an abstract capitalistic senselessness.  Their perception focuses on either what trade resources are supplied, or demanded.  I fail to see ANY humanity in it.  

People of Long Beach, and Long Island have substance abuse problems, whether we're a bystander looking in, or someone with a problem looking out, not enough is being done to quell the loss of life and energy from this disease.  The status quo isn't enough anymore.  What is most valuable to our communities is being lost because of uncoordinated policies. As sensational as Hurricane Sandy's impact brought school closures, Heroin is killing our school's students. Without future generations, we'll have no future. 

This blog wasn't intended to have a gotcha moment, but I'll just settle and ask the question out right.  "Has the Ukrainian Uprising cost as many deaths as there have been murders related to the Mexican Drug Cartel?"  

According to government figures, from 2006-2011 there have been 41,515 drug related killings in Mexico.  

This is a situation that is beyond borders, this is a systemic infection with Mexico's government from their local to their national oversight processes.  As not only allies, but neighbors we should commit to providing democratic lessons for social justice in their country by method of consultation. If we don't realize satisfactory results, continue to educating Mexicans, as well as Americans (with the money saved from cutting the Pentagon's useless needs for focusing on other continent's mobsters instead of our own).

I was indoctrinated from an early age to believe that we as Americans should be comfortable with two countries and two oceans bordering every side of us.  

Ironically it was a few years earlier than that 2nd grade geography lesson that we (members of the human race) were in a similar conundrum that is reflected here today.  The conundrum of exceptionalism.  30 years ago, America invaded Granada preemptively, and killed 18 hospital patients, while Russia was in Afghanistan. What followed afterwards was a condemnation by the U.N. Security council; only to be vetoed by the U.S. and presently we're left with our own crippled resources trying to neutralize Afghanistan which should have continued to be done 33 years ago instead of looking at politically charged invasions.  

Russia is doing the same thing that we did 30 years ago, so I ask you, this time in a different manner, "What is more important to invest our focus on, fighting the organizations that are on our own continent who are responsible for our children overdosing (Mexican drug cartels, Corrupt Health care providers who abuse writing prescription drug slips), or a couple of far away countries who haven't committed to murdering even one other person on the other side of fight?"

I have faith that the European leaders (As they did in Libya, Turkey, and Egypt) are diplomatically skilled enough to mediate this conflict without any more dramatics.  

The ideal would be if we had pragmatic leaders, and stakeholders, from the oligarchs, to the virtuous organic farmers in every nation (including Russia and Mexico) to assert that there are more problems worthy of being looked into before they start new problems of their own.

There's no right, there's no wrong, there's only the capability of being humbled by the energy we all possess, and connect with which strives for peace, and that's love for one another without any double standard.

Mexico doesn't seem anymore inviting than Russia, or Iraq.  I'm sure people have gone into all of the countries and had safe experiences, but I don' wish to try for myself, not until I first feel safe living in Long Beach, NY.