Did Americans give a rats ass when their government sent over fifty<\/p>\n
thousand young Americans to their death in Vietnam, and for what<\/p>\n
I might ask?, are you kidding.<\/p>\n
Do Americans give a rats ass that their government has sent over five<\/p>\n
thousand young Americans and still counting to their death in Iraq<\/p>\n
and Afghanistan?, give me a break.<\/p>\n
Will Americans\u00a0 give a rats ass when their government declares war<\/p>\n
on Iran or Russia?, of course not.<\/p>\n
Did Americans in the Keystone pipeline area give a rats ass over the<\/p>\n
oil spill\u00a0 in the Gulf of Mexico that devastated the Gulf\u00a0 states?,<\/p>\n
get out of here.<\/p>\n
Will Americans in the Gulf region give a rats ass when the Keystone<\/p>\n
pipeline deal goes through?, and it will, nah.<\/p>\n
Did Americans give a rats ass when Walmart put thousands of small<\/p>\n
retailers out of business, thereby destroying much of the middle class<\/p>\n
and affecting millions\u00a0 of workers making a decent living, not to<\/p>\n
mention their families while one family makes billions?, that’s a joke.<\/p>\n
Do Americans give a rats ass that both federal and state governments<\/p>\n
continue to destroy unions, thereby sending more and more<\/p>\n
to the poorhouse?, it is to laugh.<\/p>\n
Do Americans give a rats ass that federal and state governments<\/p>\n
are abrogating their civil liberties as I write, duh, what did you say?<\/p>\n
Do Americans give a rats ass\u00a0 that thousands of\u00a0young Americans are<\/p>\n
incarcerated for many years for petty crimes? ho- hum.<\/p>\n
Do Americans give a rats ass that their government has gone amok<\/p>\n
and is running roughshod over the rest of the world? I think not.<\/p>\n
Strikes me that Americans don’t give a shit about anything, but let<\/p>\n
me tell you something, I think one day they will wake up from this<\/p>\n
clueless stupor to find that there are<\/span> people in the world that<\/p>\n do give a shit.<\/span><\/p>\n Islander<\/p>\n P.S. Wrote the above about two-three years ago, just getting around<\/p>\n to publishing it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Did Americans give a rats ass when their government sent over fifty thousand young Americans to their death in Vietnam, and for what I might ask?, are you kidding. Do Americans give a rats ass that their government has sent over five thousand young Americans and still counting to their death in Iraq and Afghanistan?, … Continue reading “A rats ass”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":639,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}