A long response is worth making into a new post

J, you should join the "service" and see what happens to your heart when you see what the DoD is all about... Uncle Sam spends more money on military than bridges. 1/2 of the US budget is for the military. If anything I've gotten a more soft heart, seen more truth for myself than from the press, and discovered that no one cared for too long or too much a few years ago when a bridge collapsed in Oklahoma, then all of a sudden it gets national attention again when a bridge collapses in Minnesota. Oh fickle people and excuses. Why didn't we learn ? Ha ! It is always the same questions during each disaster and guess what the gov't does ? NOTHING. The problem is that the US gov't NEVER learns. They fool the people by putting national attention on this whole bridge problem ordeal, like GWB visiting the Minnesota bridge site, but I am not easily deceived any longer. There are too many problems and the national debt and national budget are not putting much money toward bridge repair. If it isn't a hurricane, flood, tornado, or other natural disaster, even a man-made bridge that becomes a disaster, there is always some problem we have here in the US. Not enough attention and tax dollars go toward an important issue until it is already too late, almost always AFTER a disaster has already occured. Politicians don't care about putting money for bridge repair until disasters like the one in Minnesota. Keep paying attention to where our tax dollars go and you will see that not much will change toward the "bridge" problem and repair. People will forget about this bridge problem just like people have already forgotten about the Korean guy from Virginia Tech who killed some people... or how about the guy in Canada that killed some people last year at a Canadian University. People forget or just remember, then don't really care much about it. Americans, for the most part, are usually just concerned about themselves. The US gov't could care less about other countries too; they forget about their own citizens here in America; the US gov't only cares about other countries when they can get something from them, like oil for example; otherwise the US gov't and its people remain isolated. YES, isolated, ignorant, selfish, spoiled, and weak. Americans need to educate themselves, especially by reading gov't documents like the PATRIOT ACT, which I am 2/3 through the document. You should check out the Nuclear Posture Review and plenty of other documents that the public does have access too, some are declassified. BUT once again most Americans could care less and don't have time to investigate for themselves. If you are American and don't read gov't documents, it is like being a Christian who never opened a Bible. You will be ignorant until you do reading and research. If you don't read/research for yourself, then obviously you don't care, are too well off that you could care less about social issues, could care less about the outside world passed the US borders, or don't have any interest nor care about what our gov't does, or perhaps you live in a "3rd world" country and cannot access my blog, or you don't believe anything I have written in this post. Believe it or not, if you do the research yourself, you will sadly see. It is very disappointing. I was just like everyone else until a few years ago. Gradually you find out the truth about this gov't and sometimes you don't want to believe it, but after seeing plenty of physical evidence for myself and reading gov't documents, research, etc., you become more informed than most of the Americans here in the US. Why else you think we have top secret documents ? Our gov't isn't like in the movies, especially when they try to look like the good guy. I would like to think that the US gov't is a good guy, but Uncle Sam is the dirtiest and most deceitful pimp in the world, being unkind to his whores. There is still hope to change Uncle Sam. It would take lots of work.