pinions of buddy don: sharin common burdens

the preamble to the constitushun has sum importunt principills bout whut we bleeve n why we have the gummint we gut. in case ye dun fergut how it goes, here tiz:

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

as ye kin see, thays a few reasons fer why them forefathers deecided to form a new gummint. lets list em sepertly:

• to form a more perfect Union


• establish Justice


• insure domestic Tranquillity


• provide for the common defence


• promote the general Welfare


• secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity

i wonta talk bout two of them reasons why we created the constitushun: provide fer the common defence n promote the genrul welfare. seems to me lack we aint doin our bes to attain these goals. heres why i say that.

fer one thang, thays plenty of folks that aint gut a nuff maginayshun to real eyes that providin fer the common defence means moren spendin almos as much money on our military as all tuther cuntries together spend on thars. heres a few bullet points on that:

* The US military budget is almost as much as the rest of the world's.

* The US military budget is more than 8 times larger than the Chinese budget, the second largest spender.

* The US military budget is more than 29 times as large as the combined spending of the seven “rogue” states (Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria) who spent $14.4 billion.

* It is more than the combined spending of the next twenty three nations.

* The United States and its close allies account for some two thirds to three-quarters of all military spending, depending on who you count as close allies (typically NATO countries, Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan and South Korea)

* The seven potential “enemies,” Russia, and China together spend $116.2 billion, 27.6% of the U.S. military budget.

se we gut ourself well deefended agin them enemies that aint attackin, but at our peril we ignore them enemies thats dun invaded n doon us massive damage.

befor i mentchun them enemies, lemme point out that amurkas gratest resorce aint its gold or oil or coal or uranium or land or innythang else lack that: tiz our people. how are we cultivatin this mos preshus resorce? by ignorin the enemies thats attackin n winnin agin us:

• ignorunts


• disease


• poverty

seems to me lack these is the enemies we need to deefeat on a counta how thar the ones thats winnin the war agin us. problem is, to attack them enemies, we half to change our ways n ackcep that thays sum items we have in common that we orta handle by involvin the entire communty, witch the wurd communty cums frum common.

problem here is thays a deevide twixt them that bleeves competishun is good n cooperayshun aint n them that bleeves cooperayshun is jes as importunt as competishun. but them two thangs is different sides of the same coin. we need competishun so folks will push to be the bes possibull. this wurks well ifn we wonta sell thangs lack mouse traps n cds n movies n such.

but it dont wurk so well on items everbidy needs n caint afford to shop around fer, lack medicull keer. rite now, we bleeve competishun is a mircull wurker of sum kind that kin fix innythang, even tho taint so fer everthang. that dogmatick bleef in competishun has led our gummint to side with the corporayshuns agin our own people. purrfeck eggzample of that is how our own gummint forbade itself frum bargainin with them drug cumpnies so folks could git a better price on thar drugs, witch thats how they gut drug prices down in canada, whar even my far right wing uncle buys his medicine.

magine ifn we wuz to provide fer the common deefents agin ignorunts by spendin almos as much money as all tuther cuntries put together wuz spendin! we wood reap the benefit of all that larnin on a counta we wood have more scientists n engineers n computer geeks n riters n perfessers n such. we wood be able to win the competishun of idees with the worl same as we kin do ifn innybidy wonts to have a war with us.

but as we know, teachers dont hardly git paid a nuff to live a life that aint on the poverty level. magin ifn we wuz to give teachers the respeck they deserve (in dollars) fer preparin the nex generayshun of amurkins, fer cultivatin our gratest resorce, our children.

corse, ifn we had a single-payer system to share the burden we all have in needin medicull keer, our costs per persun woodnt be the highest in the worl fer a rank thats in the low 20s while leavin moren 40 million folks without no medicull insurants.

tiz my bleef that ifn we wuz to cunsidder deefendin our folks agin ignorunts by givin educayshun the respeck (in dollars) that it desurves n ifn we also gut us a medicull system that removed the threat of finanshul ruin due to catastrofick illness, then the thurd enemy, poverty, woodnt need no food stamps nor welfare to solve: our better educated folks with good medicull insurants woodnt be as lackly to be poor.

n ifn we dun all that, we wood be doon a much better job of promotin the genrul welfare.

we need a party that wonts the progress based on cooperayshun n communty, that wonts to perteck n empower wurkin folks in sted of changing the tax code to discourage wurk by makin labor the sorce of all tax revenue, witch thats whut thar a'trine to do by gittin rid of taxes on investment n inheritunts.