Obamanation and his cronies are hosting a so-called Nato-summit meeting in Chicago. However in this case, it's less of a summit and more of a 'pass the hat' or 'pass the tin cup' session wherein BO and his underlings are trying to raise nickels and dimes to help soften our $4 Billion (plus) commitment to Afghan Thief in Charge (ooops, sorry, little Freudian slip there) I meant Afghan Chief in Charge after we pull the brunt of our forces out of that bedraggled, poppy growing sand pile and let them return to the life style they've enjoyed for thousands of years until the Russians and the Yanks came along.
(take a breath, Pecoz, that was a long sentence...)
The reason given for trying to raise a few million here and a few million there to go into the pot is for the psychological purpose of making everybody feel like they've got a skin in the game and it's a broad coalition of the world taking part. Or something like that anyway.... They are looking for 'symbolic' donations, doncha' know.
That brought this question to my mind...... (watch it now - I'm changing gears)
If broad coalition and an appearance of everybody having a 'skin in the game' seems appropriate for buying uniforms and bullets for Karzai --- why doesn't the same logic apply here in the US of A? Why do we have a tax system that takes only from those who work and produce, while leaving the other 50% of the population just on the taking end of the equation with NO skin in the game?
Putting it another way - the current set up in this Democratic-Republic has everybody with an equal vote - and less than half with any investment in the process or operation or concern about long term success of the country. I'm not suggesting an answer to the question here --- like so many of today's pundits and bloggers -- I'm only asking the question.
Isn't there a better and fairer way to run this lash-up?
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