As an Independent myself, no side is to blame. We're all to blame. We keep electing chitty poli-hacks. It's not the soldiers...it's DC and it's all the same coin. We've had a really long run of chitty politicians on both sides of the aisle, so here we find ourselves. So as a start, stop electing chitty politicians!

I do believe we are extremely spoiled as an American population as a whole and that's why we fight over arranging deck chairs. Our poor are the world's richest. That's doesn't mean don't help the poor....that means stop and think about what that means. It means YOU are in the top 5% richest people on all of earth. YOU! You may not feel like it, but brother...you are. The 99% drove to their little protests in a Prius; filmed their panty wads on their I-phones while wearing North Face jackets, Abercrombie skinny jeans while sipping their Starbucks. DYK that Starbucks foam makes an excellent curly, ironic mustache wax in a pinch? Huh. Lamps...the entire lot of em'.

If you don't like the system that got you here, move to Russia or China. Have any of you arseholes ever spent any real time in the real China like I have? If not, STFU and enjoy the hell outta what little you feel like you have everyday. You have it so good you can't even comprehend.

In this country, our freedom as provided by our military throughout our entire history, has allowed for pursuit of free thought. Since day one. The only place on earth like it. Look at what we have developed since 1776 and then look at the entire rest of the world. The last thing the middle east gave us was the abacus. Our soldiers are responsible for that free pursuit of thought. I suggest lots of folks start using it, lest the Soldiers gift that so often goes unappreciated, goes to waste.

If you can't see that...get off your government / military R&D funded and developed computer and internet and go live in a hut.

Edit: My PC just spit a bunch of game tickets out at me. Did I just WIN the interwebz?