As an Iraqi vet, I can say that I was more than a little upset to, after being sent to take liberty to the people of Iraq and free them from a corrupt tyranny, come home to a corrupt tyranny. (I returned at the beginning of Mar 08.)
The lack of action against ACORN,
The lack of a treason trial against John Murtha,
The courts protecting John Murtha by twisting an existing law to “apply,”
All of these imply a rampant corruption;
It is my belief that is why returning veterans were targeted in the DHS report.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
— John Stuart Mill
It seems to me that the biggest lie of all is that we can spend more than we earn without consequences and if the private sector won’t borrow, it’s ok for the government to do it instead.