So here is my official Halloween post. You know how they always start: But this story is true--no really! It really is a tale of true horror and terror:
We have currently spent about $500,000,000,000 on the war in Iraq. We have killed approximately 80,000 Iraqi civilians. Nearly 4,000 Americans have been killed in the war. We are approaching 30,000 wounded Americans.
Yet "the homeland" appears to be no safer as we have been, like my Frankenstein pin, stuck on code orange for years.
What if, for the past 5 years, the duration of this war, we had spent this same amount of money on hiring 1,600,000 teachers for our public school children? We could have done that for the same amount of money we spent on the war--yes, that's over 1.5 million more teachers! I believe firmly such activity would have made a meaningful difference in "not leaving any child behind!"
Would this have made our world, our nation, a better place?
Pssst... It's time to fire some people. They have made a horrible, horrible, needless mess of things. This is the true tale of horror!
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