Call it temporary insanity but let’s pretend, let’s just say, …that at one moment in time, if I chose to donate my youth out for my country, to be compensated back in the form of low pay; to completely and unjudgingly offer my fate up to the will of bureaucrats, all for the loss of my own self esteem, all for unending stretches of boredom, sparsed with interludes of a few intense seconds, that fortunately thorough my reactions and training, enabled me to continue living as I do today………….
I could reasonably be expected to be honored for that service to my nation, right?
In a perfect world, that is….
One would think, that in a perfect world, as needs were being debated across the universe of public funding, that a hierarchy resembling this, would sort of be the guideline, if not the rule?
National Heroes…..
over
We, The People…..
over
LLC corporations….
After all, if it weren’t for us, there’s a good chance those LLC. corporations wouldn’t be able to do business in a free and prosperous society, you would think?….
One would think, that if one of these heroes needed medical care, with the tremendous amounts of money being thrown away by our government daily, in the forms of corporate tax breaks enabling corporations to make “record breaking profits”…. that they would be put at the top of the list.. don’t you think?
Sorry, CEO… your operation will have to wait… We have a veteran who is in dire need ahead of you….
In a perfect world….
One would think, that a voucher system would be in place, or a blank check, where any veteran could walk into any hospital, and get immediate, necessary medical attention, have his prescriptions filled as a privilege for his service, and that the bill would be willing be paid by those with monetary resources more than adequate for their own needs?
One would think, (right?)… that it would be CEO’s, those who give pink slips so they can break profit records, those who cut benefits so they can break profit records, those who don’t invest in America so they can break record profits, ….who should be the ones finding themselves regulated to CEO hospitals, where they would then have to settle in on a waiting list for the next opening to occur, where they had to endure budget cutbacks and go without life-saving medicine because there was no money left in the CEO fund, perhaps because it had all gone to Veterans to pay THEIR expenses?
In a perfect world…..
In a perfect world, veterans would need no freebies…. They would not need welfare, or a pension, or a humble stipend to eke an existence… They would be working, contributing to society, in any way they could… If they had no legs, they would be outfitted at corporate’s expense, so that would not be an issue… If they had no arms, they could be outfitted at corporate’s expense so that was not an issue. If they had psychological damage, (and who wouldn’t?) they could be treated at corporate’s expense… so that was not an issue.
If they were so badly damaged that they create an efficiency drain on society, they could be honored for their sacrifice, and a useful voluntary capacity could be created to honor that commitment once made so long ago… Perhaps speaking about serving one’s country in every class, in every school, in every county? Can you think of any better civic’s lesson?
There’s a lot that can be done…
The problem is that veterans are deemed as just another expense…. Because to corporate America, that is just what they are… An expense, an obligation to be met that gets in the way of their making more money…
Unfortunately, our Congress is owned by Corporate America….
What should and does need to happen, is this relationship needs to be exposed. We need to call them out on it…
Republicans and Democrats are both complicit in allowing corporate raiders this unprecedented power. But Republicans are the symbol of Corporate America. Republicans are the ones who championed the Corporate Takeover. Republicans are the ones who dismanteled the safeguards that had been put in place to prevent that takeover from happening. That is why they need to go. Disappear… Whoever is left, the remainder, most likely after seeing the elimination of a large majority of their peers, will think twice before following their Dark Lord, now a soul less wanderer eking existence.. ……
In a perfect world…
Unfortunately, today we need to contend with obscene amounts of money saying Corporate is Good; Government Fairness is Bad….
But we have our lives telling us the opposite… It will take courage and strong will, to override all the overload of sensory data being pipelined into our soul, but we still have hearts, and those hearts are attuned to what makes America special. great, and the best place to live on this earth….
WE can still dream….
And those dreams should include a perfect world… one we CAN make happen, at least for those without whom we would not have the freedom, the resources, the nation, we have today….
Here’s to a perfect world?
kavips 
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November 29, 2011 at 6:39 am
anonymous
I was following along, imagining a perfect world this, a perfect world that… then I read this:
Kavips said, ” If they were so badly damaged that they create an efficiency drain on society, they could be honored for their sacrifice, and a useful voluntary capacity could be created to honor that commitment once made so long ago… Perhaps speaking about serving one’s country in every class, in every school, in every county? Can you think of any better civic’s lesson?” End of Kavips quote.
Depends entirely on the lesson plan or else, ‘All in all, it’s just another brick in the wall.’
I wouldn’t imagine a ‘perfect world’ where kids are told of “serving one’s country” in every class, in every school, in every county.” Really…kids! How about sending the vets to the board rooms of America, convincing those who benefit most, those republican CEOs, (mostly men?,) the 1% you mention, to serve in combat? You know, the entitled lot who are too privileged, too busy to notice that “others serve with their lives.” Those who were previously excused from “service” when there was a draft, because they had to go off to college (oh my) or cash in at daddy’s corporation, sigh; or were too busy “supporting” their lovely family on trust funds, etc. – need the mentioned veterans to stand before them, to enlist.. them.
Republicans shouldn’t be trusted alone with school children. They would want to continue ‘grooming the kiddies’ to lay down their lives to protect the 100% un battle-scarred lifestyles of the ‘un serving,’ fabulously kept, filthy rich and mindlessly greedy as if the 1% richest parasites are the only Americans who matter.
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For that matter, (in a perfect world,) why not have the said republican 1% family survive on $6.50 an hour wage, live in some “un friendly, bullet riddled, lawless neighborhood,” serving with their lives in the Guards; having their kids attend public schools to be taught to ‘serve one’s country’ – then repeat the cycle.How’s that sound, Mr. republican?
How about having the 1% leave them kids alone and have the republican 1% become ‘honorable’ ‘service’ men/women serving with their own lives instead of bringing the military to the school kiddies.
The cheer leading, non serving, daddy’s boy, shock and awe oil war in wrong country, no tax Bush was in a classroom, reading to the kiddies of the greedy pet goat who becomes a hero. That was important to Bush as the reality of the real world, was put on freeze frame. Tea puppets were later taught, Bush was a great leader.
The real world America is under attack, by republicans.
What is real is, the damaged real world that kids are facing. How about teaching kids that the 1%(and their puppets) still call climate change a ‘hoax’ because there’s more money to be made using fossil fuels; that kids will have to eliminate fossil fuel emissions (no can do) themselves because republicans won’t; that kids will face droughts, floods, acidification of the oceans, deal with uneducated populations, ignored exploding population rates, massive debts, hunger, failing governments, mass migrations, etc. Do you want to add to the kiddies list – serve in the armies, to protect the monied interests of the world’s richest?
If one does survive the wars of the real world, how about telling the kids the truth about surviving in America or… being a veteran.
In a republican ‘perfect world’, republicans still refuse to see past their almighty daily greed and their ‘rights’ to deny present day advances for average Americas as well as providing the resources and skills kids’ will need for better futures and lives.
Would republicans speak the truth to the school kids or stoop sooo low, as to engage them for later use .Kids shouldn’t be taught in schools, to become the new pawns of the rich.
In a perfect world, republicans need to be run out every political office by ending their use of self interest ‘money/power’ tactics aimed to run America’s government for the benefit of the 1% wealthiest. This can be done. Of course the world would be a better place.
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