The following is quoted from a column by Chris Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author living in the United States.
"What kind of nation is it that spends far more to kill enemy combatants and Afghan and Iraqi civilians than it does to help its own citizens who live below the poverty line? What kind of nation is it that permits corporations to hold sick children hostage while their parents frantically bankrupt themselves to save their sons and daughters? What kind of nation is it that tosses its mentally ill onto urban heating grates? What kind of nation is it that abandons its unemployed while it loots its treasury on behalf of speculators? What kind of nation is it that ignores due process to torture and assassinate its own citizens? What kind of nation is it that refuses to halt the destruction of the ecosystem by the fossil fuel industry, dooming our children and our children’s children?"
"...corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute, impoverish, repress, kill and lie to make money. They throw poor families out of homes, let the uninsured die, wage useless wars to make profits, poison and pollute the ecosystem, slash social assistance programs, gut public education, trash the global economy, plunder the U.S. Treasury and crush all popular movements that seek justice for working men and women."
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And there's the problem - we don't really have "nations" any more - the world has been taken over by big corporations whose only motive is greed.
Love it, how true, and another thing he could have said, because their treasury is running dry, goes after people who have citzenship, might not have ever lived or worked in said country but wants them to file taxes and maybe even pay said taxs......
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