When I first heard the song, "Lives In The Balance" by Jackson Browne, I cried. I pictured vividly the face of Dick Cheney as I heard this song:
Ive been waiting for something to happen
For a week or a month or a year
With the blood in the ink of the headlines
And the sound of the crowd in my ear
You might ask what it takes to remember
When you know that youve seen it before
Where a government lies to a people
And a country is drifting to war
And theres a shadow on the faces
Of the men who send the guns
To the wars that are fought in places
Where their business interest runs
On the radio talk shows and the t.v.
You hear one thing again and again
How the u.s.a. stands for freedom
And we come to the aid of a friend
But who are the ones that we call our friends--
These governments killing their own?
Or the people who finally cant take any more
And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone
There are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire
Theres a shadow on the faces
Of the men who fan the flames
Of the wars that are fought in places
Where we cant even say the names
They sell us the president the same way
They sell us our clothes and our cars
They sell us every thing from youth to religion
The same time they sell us our wars
I want to know who the men in the shadows are
I want to hear somebody asking them why
They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are
But theyre never the ones to fight or to die
And there are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire
Hummers are selling like hotcakes in Iraq. The Iraq economy is booming, and there are nouveau riche with enough discretionary dollars that they are buying SUV's, just like the USA in 2006. However they aren't in debt like we are now. Read this article!!! (CLICK HERE)
Obama needs to bring the troops home now, from all foreign countries, and prepare for violence. When the bank kicks you out of the home, and there are no soup lines like the last great depression, violence will break out.
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If I am ever hungry I know where to find a couple of delicious looking horses and even a fat little piggy.
China will not be fine. Two things, they don't have enough young people to support the old dried up workers in the future. This is because of their one child policy. There will also not be enough women for the men in the future because girl babies are given up for adoption. Unhappy young men is a bad thing for any society. This has been written about alot but I notice that you don't mention it.
We essentially feed the freakin world Gary - do a little Agricutural application research. Surely the wunderkind president will be able to coordinate some food lines to go along with universal healthcare. We may be in the tank but darnit - I believe in US foodlines fer cryin upstairs!
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