[pianotech] Medical costs (OT!)

[Terry Farrell]

Thank you for hitting the nail very squarely on the head Ed.

Terry Farrell

On Nov 2, 2010, at 3:38 PM, Ed Foote wrote:

> Greetings,
>
>    In this whole discussion, I find it interesting that there is  
> virtually no mention of the big leak, the hole where the promise of  
> tomorrow is being poured.  It is not Social Security, it is not  
> medical expense. It is not the housing crisis.  It is the military  
> budget.  We have a military budget that is larger than the rest of  
> the world combined, and the Pentagon is screaming for more.  We have  
> dumped a trillion dollars into the idiotic "wars" ,(which we, as a  
> nation, endorsed), and there are at least another trillion in  
> expenses that will come due in the next generation taking care of  
> the damage.  That is where the vitality of this country has gone.
>   With the money we have spent, we could easily have bought the  
> intelligence we needed to hunt down every Al-Quida member on the  
> planet and kill them, quietly. That, however, would not have been  
> dramatic enough to assuage the gods of war we have in Washington,  
> nor the public's demand for blood revenge.  So we pay, and our  
> children will pay, and theirs afterward. Our fear of appearing weak  
> has led us directly into the trap that a micro-minority of radical  
> zealots laid for us, and like fighting a hydra, every time we kill  
> one, two more appear.
>     Take a look at the history of the last 500 years and you will  
> see one nation after another collapse under the weight of military  
> spending, not entitlements. We are repeating this, and we finally  
> have created an enemy with no homeland, no definition, and no way to  
> combat. We learned nothing from 'Nam, and we learned nothing from  
> Russia's attempt in Afghanistan. So we pay. This is going to be a  
> hard lesson for our progeny, and I don't see those that caused it  
> even considering apologizing for it.
>         There are only two motivating factors that humans obey: love  
> and fear.  We have made the huge mistake of the latter, and will  
> have to back up before we can move forward.
> Regards,
>
> Ed Foote RPT
> http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
>

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