Though the two issues in the subject of this blog may seem non-related, actually they are more closely related than one might realize. First a new “price tag” came out regarding our participation in the Afghan war which has been set by the Pentagon at 45 BILLION dollars. And with no end in sight, taxpayers may have to keep on footing that bill for many years to come. This undeclared war has already been going on for 17 years so far. Thankfully the price has gone down, as a few years ago when more U.S. troops were on the ground, it was costing $100 billion a year.
But with this level of money being spent, there is simply NO inducement to end it anytime quickly, as munition dealers and anyone else earning profit form that war simply want it to continue for the profit that can be made from its continuance and the profit powerful entities and their lobbyists are reaping from its continuance. We have a dire situation that monies which could be used to build up, restore and improve this country and this world are being wasted by those simply seeking a profit from continual wars somewhere in the world.
Now how does this tie-in with the lack of initiative by students in our schools? Simply this – while legislators who should be renamed “Public Servants” to better remind them who they work for are screaming for more gun laws because of the shootings at our schools, going unnoticed is the ever present psychiatric drugging of many of our students. By the way every child shooter had one form or another of these psych drugs in their systems which provides profit for the pharmaceutical companies, but with deadly consequences for those killed by student shooters.
However there is another costly, deadly and covert problem as well. During the Vietnam War with most students NOT on psych medication, young people, then bright enough to see a scam when it was presented to them, started to protest the War in Vietnam to the point that they finally convinced most Americans that we needed to get out of that country. Which happened – because of the protests by young people. That war was ended way before the munitions dealers wanted it ended – they lost profit with it ending when it did.
Now they have a war going on a world away – with a basic news blackout and psych drugged up student population and mis-directed ( “global warming” is the greatest threat to America and this world) students and populations so the military-Industrial Complex can keep the Afghan War going for 20 – 30 – 40 – 50 years with all the profit safely in tact from that war without those pesky young people protesting it because the kids are on psych drugs, or pot or the x-rated material that is too widely available on the Web…all misdirection so…you guessed it…so that the power brokers making money off wars can keep reaping their profits with NO interruption in sight.
Solution: We MUST invest in our young people – not drug them. POT is not good for healthy individuals. And we MUST gain control of the Military Industrial Complex or we are doomed to more and more of our assets being wasted on…endless wars!