Fear for world our kids will inherit
Financial reform is a now a must for our country. My children have both been through bankruptcy. Credit cards and high interest loans were the cause. One has lost her house; the other is far underwater in her mortgage.
At 75 years old, I have lost most of my savings in the so called stock market "bubbles" (ripoffs), and am trying to stretch social security for my wife and I by living with my older daughter, husband and teen age son who has just joined the army.
Our great country is being destroyed by ideologies and greed. We are running three wars as money-laundering operations: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Drugs. They are all moving trillions of dollars from our hard-earned taxes into corporations and then to the wealthy.
To support these "wars" we are bankrupting our federal, state, and city governments, as well as our middle class. The city of Chicago, for example, has sold its parking spaces and toll roads to private corporations to try to balance the budget. The middle class can barely afford college for their children, and are financing large debts.
Our country, and, indeed, our whole world has been polluted, hurting our children the most. The gulf oil disaster is only the most recent disaster.
I remember when mother's milk was found to be radioactive. And, suddenly we have an epidemic of children in this country with ADHD and autism. Google those words, and "pollution" will turn up everywhere. Can we afford to not clean all this up? I could go on much more, but I've been away from home, and out of touch.
This financial mess sickens me when I look at the future our children will inherit. I remember a movie when Jack Nicholson said something that seems appropriate now: "You can't handle the truth."
Andrew A. Kenny
Warrenville