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To understand the fate of our nation, we can easily compare the following two things: The amount of taxpayer money used to invest in things that, without question, we'll all need and use for years to come, i.e. roads, bridges, dams, clean drinking water, etc—that is, our infrastructure—versus the amount of taxpayer money used by the government for creating a massive worldwide surveillance machine.
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So, I ask you: Is the U.S. on the verge of falling apart? Our priorities determine our future. Right now, it appears that our government's greatest priority is not whether we'll have electricity, drinking water, and good roads in the years ahead, but, as Edward Snowden says, “to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive [and extremely expensive] surveillance machine" secretly being built.
Well, the secret is out. The U.S. government is investing heavily in a bridge that no one wants. Let's hope it collapses before our actual bridges do.
To understand the fate of our nation, we can easily compare the following two things: The amount of taxpayer money used to invest in things that, without question, we'll all need and use for years to come, i.e. roads, bridges, dams, clean drinking water, etc—that is, our infrastructure—versus the amount of taxpayer money used by the government for creating a massive worldwide surveillance machine.
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So, I ask you: Is the U.S. on the verge of falling apart? Our priorities determine our future. Right now, it appears that our government's greatest priority is not whether we'll have electricity, drinking water, and good roads in the years ahead, but, as Edward Snowden says, “to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive [and extremely expensive] surveillance machine" secretly being built.
Well, the secret is out. The U.S. government is investing heavily in a bridge that no one wants. Let's hope it collapses before our actual bridges do.
