It's not the politics, it's the taxes as revenue!

Is it so hard to call businesses, evaluating bodies, and investors greedy to the point of dysfunction when our rating dropped because we didn't accept a 4 trillion dollar spending cut package that was orchestrated by a Republican for big business and wealth and backed by an evaluating body which rates profitability in investing in debt? The budget planned is still trash, cuts for 2 trillion dollars, but it includes tax revenue and that sends the market collapsing and will drive up the interest rates on borrowing and mortgages and our governmental expenditures, which is profiteering? Two trillion is what we can expect from taxes if we undo Bush's cuts, but that doesn't suit Standard and Poor. The president has been beleaguered by filibusters, but his and others' attitude about cutting spending doesn't really make him or them seem on our side. In my county, a Social Security office had to close and now they're cutting overtime for workers by closing half an hour early because the money earmarked by President Obama wasn't delivered. Why claim it's politics? It's just greed, homicidal meanness, shortsightedness and unforgivable amounts of ignorance. A country cannot be sustained on these qualities. It's not that Republicans and Democrats can't get along: Someone wants us to die socially, economically and why not, physically, for not being multi-billionaires, and it's a little too naive to act like the responsible parent of someone who doesn't feel so cozily inclined toward you. F.D.R. reveled in his enemy's hatred and was an effective leader because of that. Enemies are not children,they're every bit as maliciously inclined toward you as anybody intent on evil. And some people are selfishly evil. Not recognizing the existence of evil does nobody any good. It doesn't make you like them.They demonize others. You recognize it's evil to do just that and fight against it. This just allows you to know them, to know what they're capable of and to protect those who aren't like them as you should. Nobody is saying that people aren't inherently good: if not life as we know it would be unsustainable. But there are those who aren't, for whatever reason: their effect on others needs to be curtailed.

And while I'm at it, the helicopter crash in the Middle East was reported by Italian news to have been caused by an insider leak. If this isn't verified, why not at least posit it in U.S. news? Why are we financing countries that want us dead, and favor the Taleban even when they suffer deaths of civilians, but hate NATO forces when the same occurs, with less frequency and as accidental actions? Why isn't there a plan to bring about freedom and democracy to the Middle East that doesn't involve such high losses of life, how to start in countries that have their relatives murdered because two people from two different tribes want to marry? Or that are racist and twist religion into a tool for absolute domination and harm women, who are considered inferior to men, with all the consequences such thought brings? How are our deaths palliated by memorial services? There is no peace that can come in any psychological closure to the events like the helicopter crash. They died for our freedom: those who killed them, those who wanted them dead must pay for the lives they took, for lives that were fighting for life and equality for all.