Other animals are similar to humans in so many ways — digestion and microbiome, excretion, immune system, brain, arms and legs, mating, breathing and oxygen, exercise, musculature, family, stages of life, longevity, fear, emotion.
They are us, and we are them.
People think it quaint Atlantic-coast Indians used shells for money, but we use merely paper and ink.
Do you make decisions with your mind or your heart?
Loan forgiveness sets a terrible example. Implies that you can borrow money but don’t have to repay it. A better approach might be to allow early repayment that reduces the outstanding debt with a percentage increase in the debt retired, e.g., you repay $500 a month and this reduces your outstanding debt instead by $750 — an incentive to repay the debt early and get out from underneath faster.
Humans have been to the moon and back, but are unable to create a shoelace that stays tied.
The massive spending of the government on the Ukrainian war is just providing huge wealth to the military/industrial complex.
That segment of our economy was a key component before the Ukrainian war, but is becoming an even more dominant segment, which means our economy needs war to prosper.
Eisenhower will be rolling over in his grave.
Deal with it or it will deal with you.
The US economy needs war to thrive. Legacy all the way back to WW2 where we became the arms merchant for the allies.
Don’t just react emotionally. Think first, then act with deliberation after assessing your options.
The more you practice doing this, the easier it gets. Muscle memory.
US and Nato destroyed Ukraine with their anti-Russia policy. US promotes war everywhere because it is good for its defense industries.
Living in the US, with its pension for war, one feels a bit like a citizen of Nazi Germany who realizes that the country is being led by a madman, only here the madman is the entire government.
Reagan called the Soviet Union the “evil empire.” Today, we are the evil empire, with a sanctimonious press that endorses everything the war-mongering government does.
Proud to be American? No, embarrassed and disappointed.
