Dear, Margaret,
I am all with you in what you have said except in one thing. I am not sure that
what I said
is short sighted mentioning that I am not able to see substantial change going
on.
Also, I am not sure I mentioned that there will never be a change?
I mean, there is change, but in relation to what and whom? My heart is beating
with people
of Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and the rest, truly it
does.
Also, I am aware that here, in the US, there will be a rally called "Save the
American Dream."
And it will take place throughout the cities of the USA. It is great, there is
no discussion about
it. But let me ask you what and whose dreams are we going to save? And also
let's bear in
mind that when I am talking about the US, I am talking about, I believe, though
not sure anymore,
the richest country in the world, right? I am not talking about a small
countries in the mountains
of the Balkans who were first 500 years under Ottoman empire, then under Austro
Hungarian Empire,
then was flattened by the last mentioned empire in WWI, then was flatten by
Germany, WWII,
at the time Yugoslavia, then was broken in a bloody civil war in 90's. No, I am
not talking about
these countries. And no matter how poor we were between 45-90's and no matter
how bad
things were in some cases, over there, all the people had health care, and the
school was free, OK.
But I must say those countries could never, ever compete in any intelligent way
possible in regard
to wealth and physical with the US. And, yet, in the United States of America
we have 40,000 people
dying due to the lack of the access to the health care.
And also, the next horror is the one about the American Dream that the
education will make our
lives better. Now again, let me put this link here:
http://studentloanjustice.org/victims.htm
Please, bear in mind I am talking about the US, not some small country which
for the most of its history
of existence was occupied by some other foreign forces. Now, let me go back to
those 40,000
people who cannot afford the health care and might perish due to this. Tell me
what is the
difference between 'deaths' of people who died due to the lack of the health
insurance, and of
those who died due to the actions of a regime that prosecute its political
opponents. I might lack
the knowledge, and please forgive on my ignorance, and would be more than happy
to learn more,
but do you want to refer to me that 30, 40 or even more years ago people were
better off in
the US in regard to the health issues, or it is only the fact that today we are
able to count them
and speak of them. Now, can you imagine what a horrendous regime it would be
that prosecute
40,000 people due to its political believes. We can agree, I believe, that
something like that
would be quite an insane and horrible act. Now, how do we justify deaths of
40,000 people who die
because they do not have the access to the health care purely to the reasons
that selfish
power holders do not want to provide access to it, for if the government pay
for it, then they
might won't be able to have about 600 military basis throughout world and
perversely huge
amount of wealth for themselves.
The one great mind, who is truly the source of my courage to speak of this here
today, said
once that the US had spent $500,000 to kill just one Vietnamese soldier, while
at the same
time spent $50 for a poor person, here, in the US.
Do I need to go now and comment the expense about the Iraq and or Afghanistan
war in
relation to these 40,000 souls I talked about.
So, please tell me how my comment abut myself not being able to see any change
taking place
is short sighted? And above all, I haven't ever said that a some type of a
change will never come?
I believe I was wondering what we can do to get real change to come. Maybe I
wasn't clear enough
in clarifying what change I am referring to. I am talking abut our inability to
disassemble NATO in
Europe, removing nuclear weapons from the Europe, jail at least one criminal
bankster, stop
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, hidden wars in Yemen, and who knows where else,
ongoing deaths
of thousands of people in the US due to the lack of the health insurance, stop
enslaving people
with the false promising of better future through the schooling.
Now, let me go back to the education, and these experiences about dealings with
predatory loans.
I want to firmly assure you this is not only about my own experiences, but the
experiences of other
people living, here, in the US, as well. It is not only about myself. Honestly
I cannot care less about this
capitalistic ideology of individualistic preaching that, at the end, it is only
our own, personal, individual
reason that we are worse off than the rest of the other hard working people; as
all of this is not
the byproduct of the system made so to make the profit out of it.
Unfortunately, I just do
not accept your statement. Again, please, bear with me, I am talking abut the
US, right, the country
that spends abut $500 billion dollars a year for the military, OK. And it's
been going on like this
more or less for how long, 10 years, 20, 30, how long? Of course 20 years ago
the amount
was not $500 billion, but I believe was quite similar in its equivalence. Have
you seen any real change
in regard to this? Have you seen any decrease in military spending since the
greatest evils of all,
the USSR, disappeared from the world map? Do you really believe that the
material wealth, cars,
houses that the most of the middle class of America owns (?) is due to their
income or it is due
to borrowed loans. Loans should not be something that we consider as the wealth
of ours. It is
something we have to repay to those who lend them to us, right? And those who
lend us loans
make profit out of the payed interest on these loans, right? Also people loose
their houses if
they cannot repay their loans. If there has been change going on, why do we
have million
foreclosures today, why? So, unfortunately, I just can't see how short sighted
it is what I said
in regard to change.
Regardless, I must, say, I am deeply touched by the people’s compassion that
all of you showed
by reading our posts. I am truly thankful to all of you. But, at the same time,
to all of you
I want to say, I didn't say this for the sake of myself, I said this for the
sake of my inability
to see that there is a change going on, while certain things, I just mentioned
them, are still
here, and have been here for quite some time. They were here among us while we
were
believing that we are the ones who are bringing or are the sources of the real
changes to
some parts of world. We have had obvious failures, not to address, but to solve
these
horrendous issues, deaths of tens of thousand of people in the US, contemporary
enslavement
through the loans swindle, military machinery, neo-imperialism of Europe, the
US, Canada
through NATO, preventing wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen...
In all of this I was using my personal experience just to put a touch of human
personality to it,
so to show that these are not mere numbers. We are human beings, as well. I
mean, we are
not wealthy in any account, though still human beings. And why our lives are
any less valuable
than the lives of the other unfortunate people suffering throughout the world
due to
corrupted regimes. It seems to me as if we are way too easily moving over
these issues.
Also it seems (I cannot judge, but can reasonably assume) as if we believe that
our regimes are
in some way better, more humane, even though we can see that they are, not
only, capable of
causing horrendous sufferings to the rest of the world due to the waged wars,
but are causing
suffering to their own population.
I do not see any changes in that regard. Also I am not saying that people are
not working
extremely hard to make changes happens. People are working throughout the world
to make
changes for the benefits of the common good. But before mentioning changes in
other
countries, and before mentioning our contributions to these changes, let's look
into
our own backyard. It really can't be any simpler. And if we see that there are
problems
going on, but really horrendous problems, just in different forms, we should
ask ourselves
why they are going on. How it has happened they they have been going on in
front of us
for this long.
Best,
gORAN
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