1. No national health care system.
2. Depressed economy that forces people to join the military for promised health care and education money.
3. A federal government that sponsors torture overseas and within domestic prisons.
4. Massive potholes in streets and highways that were once the pride of the community.
5. A duopolistic political system that masquerades as a two-party system.
6. Having a military that runs secret prisons.
7. An education system that has for years warehoused multitudes of uneducated students and a government system that hides this fact and offers no explanation to anyone of the long-term ramifications.
8. Auto pundits, media, politicians, and policymakers grapple with a downsized automobile industry while play-pretending that the electric automobile is not already functional and while also depending on everyone forgetting the EV1 existed.
9. The military-industrial complex and the prison-industrial complex continue to suck up massive amount of financial resources while anti-government zealots don’t say a peep.
10. A 14-year education becoming a norm, not because more skills are needed, but because the students no longer get educated in 12 years.
11. The fact that it is cheaper for our government to kill us or let us die than to have to pay us our old age social security benefits or federal-guaranteed pensions.
12. As massive government funds are doled out to financiers and industries, pundits holler about “socialism” while ignoring the fact that what is being practiced is “fascism.”
13. No one calls for a parliamentary system which would enable the voters to toss out a malfunctioning federal administration.
14. Eco-activists get 22-year prison sentences for burning down empty buildings while we have walking the streets a former President and Vice President and their lackeys who ordered torture, secret prisons, domestic spying, illegally invading non-threatening countries, and bombing and burning of buildings with innocent people in them.
15. Bridges literally crumble into rivers.
19. Nothing serious is done to stop global warming while our polluting habits continue unabated.
20. Hearing incessant claims by people that the
21. Citizens, who after looking more closely at the 9-11 incident, say “I choose not to believe.”
22. Allowing a roulette wheel of hate variously targeting “boogey-monsters” like illegal immigrants, gays and lesbians, African-Americans, Arabs and Muslims, and others.
23. Allowing our brand of capitalism to kill the planet.
24. Having a government claiming it is broke when people demand national health care, education spending, and other social services, yet pulling billions out of mystery orifices when the business community collapses upon its corrupt, inefficient self.
25. Living with large numbers of people who hide behind a flag in an effort to escape from the inescapable truth that our country is “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.”
-- Rico Thomas Rico
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