Money Makes the World Go Around

This past Friday I finally got around to watching Fahrenheit 9/11. It came in from Netflix about 3 weeks ago (after putting it off for 2 years... I guess I'm a bad liberal) and sat on the coffee table. I guess I knew it would be difficult to watch.

Sure, it's meant to sway you emotionally, and with that in thought everything that is presented must be taken with a grain of salt. Even so, the movie is incredibly moving. While mostly tastefully done and subtle, there were scenes from both 9/11 and the war that had me in tears.

I'm certainly not a fan of this administration and have done a lot of reading on the mistakes and corruption surrounding this administration, but some of the information in the movie shocked even me. Sure, Michael Moore spun some of it. But you can't spin numbers or the reactions of Congress people when asked if they would send their kids to war. It's easy to see the blundering military mistakes and how the U.S. is handling itself in an extremely insensitive manner, which only fuels the fire of hatred in the area of the world.

The take away story from the movie is that money is still what makes the world go 'round... and, absolute power corrupts absolutely. It's hard to stop those at the top, or even get a word in edgewise. The amount of corruption in politics now is astronomical and there are very few things unaltered by the current administration. Dishonesty abounds, from wiretapping to following bank accounts to altering Nasa's mission statement to not allowing the coffins of soldiers to be shown to ignoring the geneva convention to blocking investigations to accusing people of being unpatriotic for exercising their right to free speech, I wonder if anything will remain unscathed. Add to that a domestic agenda that cuts funding for educational programs while cutting estate taxes and a deficit that is out of control. In my opinion, 2008 won't get here soon enough.

It seems that "Dubya" has been surrounded by all of that so long he may actually believe the bs he promotes. I'd love to sit down with him and ask him how he sleeps at night, with the blood of thousands on his hands and the lives of many more ruined and altered, for the worse, permanently. But, I would congratulate him on his success in the war on the middle class.

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