From War To Work, It's Still Government's Job One.

Say. How are those third and forth wars going for you? I mean, of course, Pakistan and Libya. Have we won them yet? Okay, that's a bit sarcastic. Maybe a lot sarcastic. Remember the good old days when we only had two wars going at the same time and didn't have to pay for either one? I speak of wars one and two. You know, Afghanistan and Iraq. Afghanistan is our longest lasting war, with Iraq not far behind. So, tell me. What have we learned out of all this? Wait a minute. Are you telling me we haven't learned a single thing? Oh. I see. You mean the government probably hasn't learned anything from these wars. Well you're right, I'm sure. The thing is, I think the thing we need to learn from these wars and occupations of other countries, is that nobody wants us to tell them how to run their countries. Which isn't too hard to figure out. We didn't like England telling us how to run our country. In fact we have never learned how to accept anyone telling us how to run our country. Not even the folks we elect to do it. Actually, them most of all. We seem to elect people all the time for the wrong reasons. We like to elect people to try to run the way we live instead of trying to run the country. That's why we can't get people back to work. We're too busy telling them who they can or can't marry or how they should live their lives or why they're not good enough to get into our country, instead of telling those things to the companies that would hire us if they hadn't pulled out of our country. If government would actually concentrate on bringing those jobs back, or better yet, fostering new technology and making it more advantageous to manufacture that technology here, we'd all be better off. But that doesn't seem to be what our congress is interested in. It appears that our congress would rather fight then switch.