The New Mr. America: Bankrupt, Diseased and Running Out of Options (comic)

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The New Mr. America: Bankrupt, Diseased and Running Out of Options (comic)

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(NaturalNews) With a military rifle in one hand and a bottle of

prescription medications in the other, the new " Mr. America " is over-fed,

under-nourished, over-medicated, over-spent and " over there " (waging war in the

Middle

East). And soon, with Obama's new disease care reform proposals, America

will find itself destitute and diseased, unable to climb out of the

medication dependence pit it has dug for itself.

 

To understand why this is true from a financial point of view, take a look

at these numbers:

 

If you read the actual _federal budget_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/federal_budget.html) for 2009, it's an astonishing

$3.1 trillion. The size of

the number itself is mind-boggling, but it's even more disturbing when you

realize just how much of the federal budget is spent on these three things:

 

WAR

DISEASE

DEBT

 

In fact, let me ask you this question right now: What percentage of the

federal budget do you think is spent on these three things? War, Disease and

Debt.

 

Is it 10 percent? Twenty-five percent? Fifty percent?

 

Keep going...

 

Of course, if you actually work in Washington, you won't even describe

these as " War, Disease and Debt. " Instead, you call them:

 

DEFENSE

HEALTH

THE ECONOMY

 

It all sounds much nicer when phrased that way. But these terms are

intentionally deceptive. We're not really " defending " our way into _Iraq_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/Iraq.html) , Afghanistan and seventy-five other

countries where we have a _military_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/military.html)

presence. Spending on " _health care_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/health_care.html) " doesn't have anything to do with

health (it's all about _disease_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/disease.html) ). And people who say spending more

debt money to " help _the economy_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/the_economy.html) " are mathematical retards. You

can't get yourself out of _debt_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/debt.html) by spending more money (even though

V.P.

Joe Biden insists you can...).

 

So are you ready for the actual number?

 

It's an eye-opener. The actual percentage of the U.S. federal budget spent

on WAR, DISEASE and DEBT is 87 percent.

 

Here's how it breaks down according to publicly-available numbers: (Source

= _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United..._

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget,_2009) )

 

Total U.S. Federal Budget for 2009: $3.1 trillion

 

1) WAR: Department of Defense ($515.4 billion) + War on Terror ($145.2

billion) + Dept. of Veterans Affairs ($44.8 billion) + Dept. of Homeland

Security ($37.6 billion) = $743 billion

 

2) DISEASE: Medicare ($408 billion) + Medicaid ($224 billion) + Dept. of

Health and Human Services ($70 billion) = $702 billion

 

3) DEBT: Debt to the people: _Social Security_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/Social_Security.html) ($644 billion), Social

Security Administration ($8.4

billion), Welfare ($360 billion) and Interest on National Debt ($260

billion) = $1,272 billion

 

 

(Note: This does not even include the financial cost of the War on Iraq or

the War in Afghanistan, as those are budgeted separately as appropriations

and are not included in the Dept. of Defense budget. So the actual numbers

are far worse than what's shown here...)

 

Combined spending on War, Disease and Debt: $2,717 billion ($2.7

trillion), which is 87% of the total expenditures by the federal government

($3.1

trillion).

 

 

How do you dig yourself out of this hole?

For every tax dollar you send to Washington (and it's about to become a

whole lot more of 'em), 87 cents gets spent on war, disease and debt. That

leaves just 13 cents on the dollar for roads, schools, parks, technology,

science, the environment, adult education and other programs.

 

If you spent 87% of your own household income on war, disease and debt,

leaving only 13 cents on the dollar for food, clothing, transportation and

entertainment, how long would your own finances stay solvent? Not very long...

 

It doesn't take a financial genius to realize that the United States of

_America_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/America.html) has dug itself into a

financial trench so deep and so infected with really bad planning that there

is virtually no way it can get out. As a result, the _American people_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/American_people.html) are increasingly bankrupt,

diseased and homeless. (I predict a new wave of tent cities springing up

across the American landscape as increasing numbers of Americans lose their jobs

and their homes.)

 

" Mr. America " is burned out, stressed out, tapped out and about to be

rubbed out.

 

It is only a matter of time before economic reality sets in and the

American people find their currency is phased out, too.

 

 

An economic prison to keep you trapped and penniless

It's easy to see this from afar (from South America, in my case, where I

live full time): America is living in a fantasy world, where the laws of

economics have been (temporarily) suspended. There's no such thing as too much

spending. No such thing as too many prescription drugs or vaccines. No

such thing as too much war. It's all justifiable by the relentless fools in

Washington who claim, " We saved the economy! "

 

Because, you see, we are past the point of dealing with reality in

America. There will be no saving the nation from financial demise. There will

be

no meaningful _health care reform_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/health_care_reform.html) . There will be no real

changes that preserve your freedom or

your bank account. Instead, one hundred percent of the efforts are now

focused on preserving the illusions that keep America artificially propped up

like a morbid human puppet.

 

The new Congressional bills, the financial bailouts, the empty talk of

_health_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/health.html) care reform -- these are all

designed to distract you from the sobering, unavoidable and simple truth:

That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage,

born inside a prison that you cannot smell, taste, or touch. A prison for

your mind. [Recognize it?]

 

That prison keeps you working 60-hour weeks. It keeps you paying your

taxes. It keeps you medicated and indoctrinated like a slobbering idiot who

buys brand-name products because the logos seem somehow emotionally familiar

(TV programming). It keeps you slaving away your precious hours, shoveling

the fruits of your labor into a mindless, heartless machine of Big Government

that has already mortgaged your assets, sacrificed your health and stolen

your future.

 

And there's always a seductive motivation beckoning you to sacrifice more.

If you only work another job, you'll be able to afford that giant TV

screen you've always wanted. Here's a credit card to make it easy, or you can

just sign over your home. Here, take this vaccine shot for your own

protection. Vote for me, and I'll give you free health care. I'll stabilize the

economy by spending future generations into yet more debt. Don't worry about

paying anything back... we'll let the next President deal with that.

 

The fraud continues, year after year, with new faces and names at the

helm, but the same old failed thinking at the core. You cannot spend your way

to prosperity, you must SAVE your way there. You cannot make a population

healthy by drugging more people. You cannot make peace by waging war. And you

cannot make a nation great by abandoning the real needs of the people and

selling out to corporations and their lobbyists.

 

Sadly, while Mr. America was once a healthy, thriving, hard-working

individual, he's now a jobless, indebted medicated heart patient with a

caffeine

habit and an upside-down _mortgage_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/mortgage.html) on the home he's about to lose. And

the worst part is that the

lawmakers in Washington are doing everything in their power to make sure Mr.

America stays that way.