What Are We Doing To Our Kids?

Now that the investment bankers are being granted debt amnesty, the subprime lenders are in the process of being rescued, the bankers are being bailed-out, the Iraq infrastructure is in the process of being rebuilt, the hedge funds allowed to hedge (at whose expense?), Halliburton has been paid-off, the drug companies can sell Medicare Part D drugs without fear of having to negotiate prices as one would expect in a capitalist environment, the elderly are being provided with Medicare insurance, some subprime borrowers are being provided with legitimization of their fraud, Grasso is going to keep his NY Stock Exchange paychecks, American munitions manufacturers continue to prosper from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the HMOs are protected from insolent and uncaring behavior for those they insure through ERISA HMOs and PPOS, we have massively indebted ourselves to the Chinese, and the politicians are pandering to their campaign contributors and respective electorates in the upcoming congressional, presidential election, there's one group that is being ignored.

Kids have no vote and no power as a political bloc. Kids have only parents who are being threatened, worn-down, emotionally and financially destroyed by our combination of inflation, recession and sacrifice of humanity for business efficiency. Kids have schools that are being under-funded, teachers that are disillusioned and worn out, and the havoc of single parent families. Kids have health care that is underfunded, undersupplied and inaccessible. Kids are the real victims of our dysfunctional government, economy and society. But no-one talks about what we are doing to our kids on the morning news of evening comedy shows.

We have, or are in the process of, paying off bankers, the real estate industry, investment houses, the military-industrial complex, business, politicians, the elderly and anyone who has any political leverage, while we disinvest in our kids.

What have we become?