12 Signs America Is Insane

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The US flag flies at half-mast at the Capitol building in honor of the victims of the shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, September 16, 2013 in Washington, DC.

12. Bradley Manning is in jail. Dick Cheney is not.

11. The six Wal-Mart heirs possess more wealth than the bottom 40% of families in this country. Or, in other words, six surrealistically-rich people who say they can’t provide decent wages or benefits for their workers have more wealth than roughly 160 million other Americans combined. Much of that Wal-Mart wealth is directly attributable to the ways U.S. taxpayers subsidize the Wal- Mart labor pool, offer tax breaks, and tilt the playing field so that so much wealth flows into those few hands. Six people. Think about that, if your own head isn’t too far up your nether orifice, then think of the people and policies that created such disparity.

10. Michelle Bachmann is on the House Intelligence Committee.

9. The highest-paid public employees in 26 states are college football coaches.

8. Rush Limbaugh has a net worth of nearly a half a billion bucks, and he is the most listened-to ignorance-and-hate-purveyor in the nation, with some 15 million regular listeners. He has two semesters of college under his rather lengthy belt, and according to his mother, he “flunked everything.”

[DrDan]

1. pretty complete - but it does need a reference to sarah palin

how can a list like this be complete without a mention of palin? Perhaps something to the effect of numbers of voters that voted for her. A sure sign of a sanity gap.

[Hydra]

4. I agree

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But we can continue with REAMS of insane/stupid things going on in America.

You know, the 1% claim we'd never accomplish anything without them. Is this their idea of good work?

[DrDan]

5. yeah - you are right

like - not even a discussion of the most minimal control of guns after a massacre of 5-6 year olds

how insane is that?

[Hydra]

6. Privatizing water

The derangement is reaching all areas.

[HughBeaumont]

17. 13. 57 million people thought "President Sarah Palin" was a great idea.

14. 47% of the country thought "President Mormon Michael Milken" was a great idea.

[DrDan]

18. the sad part is . . . they still do

[disidoro01]

2. I know people

don't want to hear this but this shit doesn't happen in a vacuum.

[GeorgeGist]

3. Thank Reagan for getting the ball rolling ...

downhill.

[FiveGoodMen]

7. "12. Bradley Manning is in jail. Dick Cheney is not."

Thank Obama for that.

[Enthusiast]

8. Yup, Saint Ronnie got 'er done.

He started it.

[BainsBane]

9. mass shootings and 300 million guns

would be the number one red flag.

[progressoid]

10. 4. The news media actually cover things Donald Trump says.

[azurnoir]

11. Numbers 2 & 3

2. House Republicans have held more than 40 votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act, but have not proposed a single bill to create jobs.

3. According to the Department of Veteran’s Affairs, veterans of the U.S. military are killing themselves at the rate of nearly one per hour. Among American teenagers, suicide is the third-leading cause of death, right behind homicide and accidents.

[onethatcares]

12. teenagers and veterans

killing themselves at record levels.

meanwhile school funding is being cut, programs that actually could help both groups are being gutted and the supposed representatives of the people have convinced some of the populace that food stamps are a problem.

our country is fucked, sincerely and truly fucked.

[YoungDemCA]

22. But hey, Wall Street is doing better than ever!

So yeah...cool?

[Cleita]

13. Add to that.

Darrell Issa is a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (Chair) and the House Committee on the Judiciary.

[DissidentVoice]

14. A few more...in no particular order

It is somehow considered "virtuous" to be bankrupted just for being sick.

Legislators get pure SOCIALIZED MEDICINE while working doggedly to deny it to those they claim to represent.

A long-dead actor who quite likely had Alzheimer's/dementia during his Presidency is deified for policies of cruelty to the poor and needy wrapped in God, Guns, Guts and the Flag.

Poor and needy people in red states keep voting for those who actively work against their interests.

Guns are good. Health care is bad.

Anyone to the left of Ayn Rand is a "socialist/Marxist/communist."

That's just for starters.

[WillyT]

15. K & R !!!

[whatchamacallit]

16. It's true, we're batshit

USA USA...

[indepat]

19. My #13: The American people keep re-electing most of the most odious of the congress-critters who

support legislation that perpetuates most of these 12 signs of out national insanity.

[Tigress DEM]

20. Talk about an oxymoron

10. Michelle Bachmann is on the House Intelligence Committee.

[Tigress DEM]

21. And the NUMBER 1 reason - We fight for FREEDOM everywhere but NOT HERE at home

1. On the morning I was compiling this list, 13 people were shot to death in the nation’s capital. Since terrorists struck the U.S. on 9/11/2001, more than 300,000 Americans have lost their lives to guns—more than 100 times as many people as the number who died when the World Trade Center fell. We’ve spent well over a trillion dollars fighting terrorism, but we live with the threat of random terror in our schools and on our streets on any given day. That’s just the price we pay for “freedom,” I guess. Or so the NRA would have us believe, as they corrupt our politicians and subvert popular support for gun control sanity.

Freedom from being gunned down by our neighbors on our own streets.