"Dad!"
"What, Annie?"
"There's an elephant in the living room!"
"No, there isn't! Stop making things up!"
"But Dad... He just ate the ceiling... and he's pulling roof beams down!"
"Annie... There's no elephants here! Go and play!"
"But Dad... he just ate the couch... and he's in that box you keep precious stuff in... Oh Oh... I think he's found your safe!"
"Nonsense! There's no wild elephants in the United States!"
"Well, Dad, that elephant you say doesn't exist just busted your safe wide open, and he's eating all the money! Didn't you have that put away for your health care? And for my college education? And for the car you were going to get? and for..."
"ANNIE! GO OUTSIDE AND PLAY!"
Yep, it sure is nice living in the good ole USA... barbecues, Sunday relaxation, teevee, Nice relaxing afternoons, nothin' happenin' here, folks, move along, and above all, don't look as our money is being spent on a couple of wars that serve no purpose but one;
Enriching the military-industrial complex.
That's right, folks, those NICE people who supply our troops with every sub-standard thing, Who get 85% of the money that we "Support the troops" with, that furnished a certain ex-vice-president with hundreds of millions of dollars with stock options that matured... in 2009, just after he left office, that make stuff that
A- We never want to use, such as nuclear bombs
B- Don't want, such as wars of choice
C- Is obsolete from the day it's made
need to eat! you want to reduce American Industry to nothing?
Hey wait! We Gotta "Support the Troops"tm or we might be considered "Unpatriotic"! Besides, there's whole communities, why, whole cities that depend on "Defense industries"...
Defending us from what?
Oh, you know, Saddam had nuclear weapons... or at least aluminum tubes that could have been used to make centrifuges that could have made a nuclear weapon in about a thousand years, with luck. Oh, he couldn't? Didn't?
Well what about IRAN? Huh? Them Ayatollahs are just itchin' to bomb us, you know... Gotta make more bombers... and besides, There's SENATORS who depend on votes from those communities that make the bombs, you know!
Health care? So what that health care for everybody in the USA would have cost less than a third of what the Iraq war cost? SUPPORT THE TROOPS!!!
What's that? These troops don't have decent health care once they get back? Their requests for mental health help is denied? There's more and more suicides among returning troops?
PESSIMIST! PESSIMIST! LALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!
Where's that channel changer?