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No Books, Just Bombs

I'm pretty pissed.

I am starting to get really fucking irritated that so many people make the claim that the United States is the greatest country in the world. Unfortunately I'm coming to the conclusion that before too long our country is going to collapse under the weight of the monumentally moronic decisions made every day by politicians, businessmen and the like that are sucking the life out of each and every citizen.

They've taken our rights in the name of safety, our jobs in the name of profit, pensions for pure greed, and continues to fund the bombing of other countries while imprisoning non-violent citizens at exponential rates.

I'm currently unemployed and guess what? I got denied for financial aid to continue going to college while I'm out of work because I apparently made too much money, WHILE I DIDN'T HAVE A FUCKIN JOB.

Our Government can bail out Wall Street, major auto companies that blow our tax payer dollars on vacations, yachts and frivolous bullshit. But somehow in the midst of all this we can't even pay to educate the citizens that are in desperate need of something to create a future for themselves in an economy that seems to continue to deteriorate.

Who knows what will happen now, I nearly made straight A's in my last and I'm getting shafted because we can't somehow create a government that can appropriate funds where they are needed most are are the most effective. It's unfortunate and saddening to see where our world is headed and now looks to be in even worse shape now that we have a gigantic oil spill in the gulf now to top things off. Still waiting to see when things will really start to change.

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