Note to America

Hello, America, how are you? Well, I hope. And, while you're doing well and doing the things you like to do, please look back over the last ten years. Can you see that our government has put us in two wars at a cost of $3,000,000,000,000 and the lives of almost 6000 of our military? Please notice that those wars have also killed more than a hundred thousand Arabs and Muslims and that the money required to prosecute this carnage was all borrowed and has helped increase our national debt from around 8 trillion dollars to more than 14 trillion dollars. Your kids and grand-kids, of course, will pay it back.
During these years our government also gave tax cuts to many Americans, including some of you, and certainly to the very wealthy. Our elected officials mismanaged our economy beyond normal risk and we had to bail out the banks and investment companies and the insurance and automobile companies with borrowed money. All of this while average Americans faced unemployment, lower wages, foreclosure, and many, many other financial challenges.
And now our government, Republicans and Democrats alike, wants us to reduce this debt and are asking average Americans and even some of our most vulnerable citizens to pay for the wars, the mismanagement of our economy, and the tax cuts. This is to be done by cutting spending on some of our most important programs like education, health care, infrastructure, and even social programs for the elderly and needy. Congress is proposing to divide the older and younger generations health care coverage into different programs; leaving a more generous health care system for older people while younger people have to live with a much more expensive system. This divide and conquer tactic can only result in generational bickering and less quality health care for everyone.
All of this will be done to reduce the national debt incurred by unnecessary wars, huge tax cuts, economic mismanagement, and plain old greed. Of course, the wars are still being waged at a cost of around 250 billion dollars a year and Obama has "compromised " with Republicans to extend tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans while Congress works night and day to make average Americans and the most vulnerable pay for these excesses.