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Are You Getting It Yet?
They Don’t Care

Tuesday September 13th, 2005, by William Schroder


ARE YOU GETTING IT YET?

Hurricane Katrina - Millions suffer - Global war on terror - Preemptive war - Manipulation of intelligence - Misleading the American people - Downing Street Memos - Unprovoked wars of conquest and occupation - American soldiers and innocent Iraqi civilians die - Taxpayer billions unaccounted for - Cost of war two hundred eighty billion and counting - Abu Ghraib - Guantanamo - Biggest embassy in the world under construction in Iraq - Fourteen new permanent military installations in Iraq - Homeland security - Patriot Act - Duct tape - Freedom fries - No exit strategy - American soldiers and innocent Iraqi civilians die - Election fraud in Florida - Election fraud in Ohio - Deteriorating air quality standards - EPA standards for mercury - Kyoto treaty - False claims about ANWAR - Hatchery salmon - BLM lands unprotected - Perchlorate dangers - International pesticide ban - Cuts in forest protections - Global warming - Ignoring the world scientific community - No child left behind - Military recruiters on campus - Gay marriage - God in government - Terry Shaivo - Jeff Gannon - The right to die - Stem cell research - Social security reform - Bankruptcy laws - Tort reform - Tax reform - HIV-AIDS - Abortion - Prayer in school - Prayer in government - Activist judges - Activist pharmacists - Job losses - Outsourcing - Tax cuts for the wealthy - Wealth gap growing - Consumer confidence plunging - Record trade deficits - Corporate fraud - Tax loopholes - Union busting - Record budget deficits - Falling dollar - Unfunded mandates - Medicare and Medicaid cuts - Benefit cuts - Drug prices at all time high - Deficits don’t matter - Windfall profits for energy companies - Windfall profits for drug companies - Windfall profits for utility companies - Windfall profits for the financial industry - Windfall profits for the insurance industry -Windfall profits for the defense industry

Are you getting it yet? THEY DON’T CARE. The Neocon “Crazies” running our government have set in motion a global strategy of preventative war to facilitate the transfer of vast sums of public money into the hands of the corporate and political elite and to enact wildly unpopular and destructive domestic policies, and THEY DON’T CARE whether you know it. This is not a matter of Democratic verses Republican, liberal or conservative. It is a question of how much longer Americans will lie spread-legged on their backs and let the Crazies have their way. THEY DON’T CARE about the mess they’ve made in Iraq. THEY DON’T CARE about the environment. THEY DON’T CARE about world opinion. THEY DON’T CARE about democracy, and clearly, THEY DON’T CARE about the American people. Now is the time for all good men to stand up to outrageous hypocrisy and renounce deceit designed to keep "the great beast" (us) thinking other things while powerful internal sectors rape and run. Hurricanes and all, America will survive, but the bleeding won’t stop until more people face fact, repudiate consoling, easy-to-ingest jingoism and accept one fundamental truth about the current leadership: THEY DON’T CARE.

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