Yesterday Obama allowed as how the killing of Bin Laden testified to the "greatness of the American people" and how we should all feel happy and unified at last. Ned wonders what prescription medication he has been abusing.
To imagine that somehow the death of Bin Laden will "unify the country" and end the "funk" that this country has been in since the financial crisis of 2007-8 is the most preposterous kind of drivel. There are tens of millions out of work, or working multiple part-time jobs for low pay and no benefits, and fifty million without real health care. We still have 40k troops in Iraq, and 140k in Afghanistan, we are bombing wedding parties and school kids every day in Afghanistan and Pakistan. And the Obama people agreed to extend the Bush tax cuts for the Sneering Plutocracy, the single greatest reason why the budget is disastrously out of balance. The other reasons? A trillion dollars flushed down the toilet in Iraq, and an obscene $800 billion a year spent on the military. All the while the sneering plutocrats get richer and more smug, while the rest of us wait, hat in hand, for crumbs to fall out of the cat's bowl.
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