What we need to get rid of

Face it, folks, the United States is broke.

We don't have enough money.

States are broke, the Federal Government is broke, counties, everyone, everywhere.

Broke.

No money.

So, because of this, it seems true that we must change the way we have functioned up to this point, since what we've done up to now has gotten us financially bankrupt. If you do the same things, over and over, but get the same results, it's the defintion of insanity.

Now that we are broke and realize and accept that, it seems things should evolve.

What I'm proposing today is things we should change. In fact, what I'm proposing is things we need to get rid of.

We need to do away with the following:

1) The Coast Guard. As Jon Stewart said on his "Daily Show" a few nights ago, we have a navy so why do we need another, 2nd water-based, boat- and ship-running police?

2) NATO. NATO is 60 years old. It was formed during World War II, for pity's sake. It was a response to countries and structures that no longer exist. We should not any longer support the function of an organization that existed in a completely different time and under absolutely different situations that don't, in fact, exist any longer;

3) Camp Pendelton, California. Someone tell me why we should have this old marine base on the beaches of Southern California any longer. We shouldn't. We need to do away with it, sell the land--in an "up" real estate market, of course--and take the profit. I'm not saying we exist for profit as a nation but it would be a far better and more appropriate use of all that beachfront and it simply makes sense;

4) Our hate, suspicious and animosity for and to the former Soviet Union. This really makes no sense any longer. They're in need of help and it's help we could give them. The flip side? We need them, too. We could and should be partners in helping one another. We both have things the other needs. We should be working together, now and as soon as possible;

5) The missile degense system we're trying to put in Poland, ostensibly, it would seem, against the former Soviet Union. This is another thing that makes absolutely no sense. We're broke and really can't afford this, for one. Th esystem we are trying to build is obscenely expensive and, to date, doesn't work. Secondly, we are no lnoger "the West" or the US vs. the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union no longer exists. Instead of saber-rattling, why don't we look for ways to work together instead? That makes sense. Saber-rattling doesn't.

There's more. There's a lot more.

I'll post more, in time to come.